MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2013) Abrahamian, Ervand. The Coup: 1953, the CIA and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations (New York: New Press, 2012). Allen, Lori. The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Palestine (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013). Boroujerdi, Mehrzad, ed., Mirror for the Muslim (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Bookshelf Although the Congressional investigating committee did everything in its power to minimize Israel’s role in the Iran-Contra scandal, the hearings and their fallout did suggest that Israel played a major, and very likely initiating, role in the sordid affair. This and other matters skirted by both th (Author not identified) • 4 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 2013) “The Iraq war is largely about oil,” wrote Alan Greenspan in his memoir The Age of Turbulence (2007). “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows.” It may indeed be self-evident that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, as the former Federal Reserve chairm (Author not identified) • 9 min read
MER Article Primer: The War Iraq is a country of 15.5 million people living in an area somewhat larger than the state of California. Most of its land is a plain descending from mountains in the north to desert in the southwest. The area near the Gulf is marshy. This plain includes the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, between which (Author not identified) • 8 min read
Current Analysis CAFMENA Letter re: Syria The Committee on Academic Freedom [http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/committees/academic-freedom/index.html] of the Middle East Studies Association of North America has published an open letter [http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/committees/academic-freedom/intervention/letters-syria.html#021913]regarding armed (Author not identified) • 3 min read
Current Analysis Booyah! Growing Up Amidst Revolution As any parent can tell you, kids are profoundly shaped by what goes on around them that is outside the parents’ control. Witness the socialization of my daughter, 8, half-Egyptian, half-American and living in Cairo, over the last two years. If nothing else, it’s a window upon how Egypt’s political t (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2012) Abbas, Rauf and El-Dessouky, Assem. The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952 (ed. Peter Gran) (trans. Amer Mohsen and Mona Zikry) (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012). Achy, Lahcen. Tunisia’s Economic Challenges (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for Internationa (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2011) Aloni, Udi. What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). Bier, Laura. Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity and the State in Nasser’s Egypt (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011). Booth, Ken and Tim Dunne. Terror in Our Tim (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Letter (Fall 2011) Rochelle Davis’ “Culture as a Weapon” (MER 255) presents the wrong question, answered incorrectly. In her piece the US military appears both incapable of teaching service members to interact with civilians and unworthy of making such attempts. Davis concludes that military efforts at understanding c (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2011) Ahmed, Leila. A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence from the Middle East to America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011). B’tselem. Dispossession and Exploitation: Israel’s Policy in the Jordan Valley and Northern Dead Sea (Jerusalem, May 2011). Dalacoura, Katerina. Islamist Terrorism (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, the Qur’anic scholar and public intellectual whose bravery greatly inspired us at MERIP, passed away on July 5 in Cairo at the age of 66. (Author not identified) • 11 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2008) Barenboim, Daniel. Music Quickens Time (London: Verso, 2008). Bilal, Wafaa and Kari Lydersen. Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun (San Francisco: City Lights, 2008). Dostal, Jörg Michael and Anja Zorob. Syria and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Fife, Scotland: University of (Author not identified) • 1 min read
