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
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2014) Amer, Sahar. What Is Veiling? (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Baron, Beth. The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014). Brand, Laurie A. Official Stories: Politics and National Narrat (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Mahsa Shekarloo Mahsa Shekarloo (1970-2014), Iranian feminist, human rights advocate and MERIP contributor, lost her two-year struggle against lymphoma on September 5. She was laid to rest in Oakland, California, surrounded by numerous friends and her loving family, including her son Borna, 5, and her husband Sohra (Author not identified) • 5 min read
Current Analysis Indyk vs. Indyk Israelis and Palestinians share responsibility for the collapse of Middle East peace talks. That was the message delivered on Thursday [http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/other/IndykSpeechtoTWI20130508.pdf] by US special envoy to the peace process Martin Indyk, in a speech to the W (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2014) Abunimah, Ali. The Battle for Justice in Palestine (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014). Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. A Critical Introduction to Khomeini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Aidi, Hisham D. Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (New York: Random House, 2014). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Current Analysis In Egypt, Nasty Business as Usual Egypt certainly has a penchant for tragicomedy. A week after prosecutors in the terrorism case against Al Jazeera employees [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/al-jazeera-trial-media-ejected-inaudible-recordings-egyptian-judge-journalist] introduced a video of sheep farming -- among other (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2013) Abu Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013). Amar, Paul and Vijay Prashad, eds. Dispatches from the Arab Spring (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Atia, Mona. Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in (Author not identified) • 2 min read
