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
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
