MER Article From the Editor (Winter 2008) The sheer symbolic power of the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States is difficult to capture in words. It is not only that a black man has won the highest office of a nation that, at its inception, defined close to every black man or woman as three fifths of a (Author not identified) • 5 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2008) Abrahamian, Ervand. A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Bayoumi, Moustafa. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (New York: Penguin, 2008). Bensahel, Nora et al. After Saddam: Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq (Santa Monica, (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2008) Ali, Kecia. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith and Jurisprudence (London: Oneworld, 2006). Al-Jawaheri,Yasmin Husein. Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008). An-Na‘im, Abdullahi Ahmed. Islam and the Secular State: (Author not identified) • 2 min read
Current Analysis Underbelly of Egypt’s Neoliberal Agenda It was business as usual for Orascom, a gigantic Egyptian conglomerate with major interests in everything from Cairene highway construction to Red Sea luxury resorts to cell phones in Iraq. (Author not identified) • 8 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2008) B’tselem/Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Ghost Town: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron (Jerusalem, May 2007). Colla, Elliott. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2007) Boyar, Ebru. Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007). Cockburn, Patrick. The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (London: Verso, 2006). Daly, M. W. Darfur’s Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Rogue Libya's Long Road On May 15, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that the United States would soon open an embassy in Libya, long classified by Washington as an inveterate “rogue state.” This move came, she said, “in recognition of...the excellent cooperation Libya has provided to the United States... (Author not identified) • 16 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2007) Al-Ali, Nadje Sadig. Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (London: Zed Books, 2007). Antoon, Sinan. I‘jaam (San Francisco: City Lights, 2007). Asad, Talal. On Suicide Bombing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Atabaki, Touraj, ed. The State and the Subaltern: Modernizati (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Fall 2007) A grim irony of MERIP’s history is that demand for our work rises at times of extraordinary turmoil in the region we cover. This was true during the 1987-1993 Palestinian uprising and the 1990-1991 Gulf war, and it is true today. By almost every measure, from subscriptions to Middle (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2007) Akçam, Taner. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006). Ansari, Ali M. Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change (second edition) (London: Chatham House, 2006). Benvenisti, Meron. Son of the Cypresses (Be (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2007) B’Tselem. Act of Vengeance: Israel’s Bombing of the Gaza Power Plant and Its Effects (Jerusalem, September 2006). B’Tselem. Barred from Contact: Violation of the Right to Visit Palestinians Held in Israeli Prisons (Jerusalem,September2006). Eyal, Gil. The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2006) Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Geneaology (London: Routledge, 2006). Ansari, Ali M. Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East (New York: Basic Books, 2006). Golan-Agnon, Daphna. Next Y (Author not identified) • 1 min read
