278_wilson MER Article North Africa's Invisible Refugees It is December 2014, and on a chilly desert night in a refugee camp, a family sits in a circle inside their tent. Each family member wraps as much of his or her person as possible in a shared blanket. The mother, Almuadala, is making tea on a charcoal furnace. (Author not identified) • 9 min read
Current Analysis Suspend US Military Aid to Egypt Scholars of the Egypt and the Middle East call on President Obama to stop the longstanding US support for Egypt's undemocratic military regime. (Author not identified) • 3 min read
Current Analysis Open Letter from Scholars of Yemen Scholars write for the third time to condemn the actions of the US-Saudi-French alliance violating international humanitarian law in the southern Arabian Peninsula. (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2015) Aarts, Paul and Carolien Roelants. Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril (London: Hurst, 2015). Beinin, Joel. Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015). Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Te (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2015) Abulhawa, Susan. The Blue Between Sky and Water (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015). Agrama, Hussein Ali. Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). Alajaji, Sylvia Angelique. Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for (Author not identified) • 2 min read
Current Analysis Scholars of Egypt Protest Crackdown on Freedom of Expression November 18, 2015 President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Arab Republic of Egypt Ahmed al-Zind Minister of Justice, Arab Republic of Egypt Sedky Sobhy Minister of Defense, Arab Republic of Egypt Yasser Reda Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States (Author not identified) • 6 min read
Current Analysis Letter of Support by Colleagues and Personal Friends of Emad Shahin For those familiar with even the barest facts of the case, the provisional sentence of Emad al-Din Shahin to death seems appalling. Professor Shahin is a widely respected and accomplished academic who has taught at Notre Dame, Harvard, Georgetown, the American University in Cairo and George Washingt (Author not identified) • 3 min read
Current Analysis Open Letter from Yemen Scholars Protesting War We write as scholars concerned with Yemen and as residents/nationals of the United Kingdom and the United States. The military attack by Saudi Arabia, backed by the Gulf Cooperation Council states (but not Oman), Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, the UK and above all the US, is into its third week of bombing an (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2015) Abisaab, Rula Jurdi and Malek Abisaab. The Shiites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hizballah’s Islamists (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015). Al-Saleh, Asaad. Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). Amar, P (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014). “There are no good men among the living, and no bad ones among the dead.” In the simplest sense, this Pashtun proverb is similar to the common injunction not to spea (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article The Politics of Iran's Satellite Era “Once,” the Iranian comedian Mehran Modiri notes, “our marital relationships were formed over long distances. An Iranian man would explore the world abroad with his father’s money. When the money ran out, he would suddenly miss home-cooked qormeh sabzi and ask his family to send him a pure Iranian b (Author not identified) • 16 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2014) Al-Arian, Abdallah. Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Alexander, Anne and Mostafa Bassiouny. Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers in the Egyptian Revolution (London: Zed Books, 2014). Baram, Amatzia. Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1 (Author not identified) • 1 min read
