# Middle East Research and Information Project
> Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971
Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context.
Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`).

## Pages
- [Special Tenth Anniversary Issue](https://www.merip.org/issue-100.md) - October-December 1981
- [Islam and Politics](https://www.merip.org/issue-102.md) - January/February 1982
- [Khomeini and the Opposition](https://www.merip.org/issue-104.md) - March/April 1982
- [The Horn of Africa](https://www.merip.org/issue-106.md) - June 1982
- [Egypt in the New Middle East](https://www.merip.org/issue-107.md) - July/August 1982
- [War in Lebanon](https://www.merip.org/issue-108.md) - September/October 1982
- [Syria's Troubles](https://www.merip.org/issue-110.md) - November/December 1982
- [Rapid Deployment and Nuclear War](https://www.merip.org/issue-111.md) - January 1983
- [The Arms Race in the Middle East](https://www.merip.org/issue-112.md) - February 1983
- [Iran Since the Revolution](https://www.merip.org/issue-113.md) - March/April 1983
- [Israel Divided](https://www.merip.org/issue-114.md) - May 1983
- [The Palestinian Dilemma](https://www.merip.org/issue-115.md) - June 1983
- [Israel's Strategy of Occupation](https://www.merip.org/issue-116.md) - July/August 1983
- [Debt and Development](https://www.merip.org/issue-117.md) - September 1983
- [Lebanon in Crisis](https://www.merip.org/issue-118.md) - October 1983
- [The PLO Split](https://www.merip.org/issue-119.md) - November/December 1983
- [The Middle East After OPEC](https://www.merip.org/issue-120.md) - January/February 1984
- [State Terror in Turkey](https://www.merip.org/issue-121.md) - January/February 1984
- [Turkey Under Military Rule](https://www.merip.org/issue-122.md) - March/April 1984
- [Migrant Workers](https://www.merip.org/issue-123.md) - May 1984

## Posts
- [Sabiha Allouche Joins MERIP Board of Directors](https://www.merip.org/2026/10/sabiha-allouche-joins-merip-board-of-directors.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Today I am happy to announce that Sabiha Allouche, a longtime MERIP contributor and editor, and Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter has been elected to MERIP’s Board of Directors. Her work encom…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 30: Nafiseh Sharifi](https://www.merip.org/2026/10/the-merip-podcast-episode-30-nafiseh-sharifi.md) - Today on the MERIP Podcast we’re sharing an interview with Nafiseh Sharifi about her recent article in Middle East Report, “Soundtrack of Dissent–Protest Music in Iran.” Sharifi is an Iranian anthropologist and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Universi…
- [Building a Sustainable Future for MERIP](https://www.merip.org/2026/09/building-a-sustainable-future-for-merip.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, When I came on board at MERIP in 2024 the task at hand was clear: find ways to engage our audience and our supporters more deeply and remain accessible to a wide audience. We’ve come a long way in accomplishing that goal. Our new website, almost a year old, is easier to u…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 29: 25 Years Since 9/11 And Still No Justice--Here's Why](https://www.merip.org/2026/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-29-25-years-since-9-11-and-still-no-justice-heres-why.md) - Today on the MERIP Podcast we’re sharing a recording of a live event featuring Lisa Hajjar and John Ryan discussing their last two decades of reporting, researching and writing from Guantánamo Bay. This event, which took place in Washington, DC, at Busboys and Poets on September 13th, marked the 25…
- [NEW: Remittances at Risk–War, Sanctions and Financial Insecurity in Yemen](https://www.merip.org/2026/09/new-remittances-at-risk-war-sanctions-and-financial-insecurity-in-yemen.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, With the conflict in Yemen taking a dramatic turn this week, we are sharing a new article that examines how the sanctions regime imposed on Houthi territory has impacted households across the country. In “Remittances at Risk–War, Sanctions and Informal Finance in Yemen,”…
- [Remittances at Risk—Sanctions, War and Informal Finance in Yemen](https://www.merip.org/2026/09/remittances-at-risk-sanctions-war-and-informal-finance-in-yemen.md) - Yemeni migrant workers abroad send billions of dollars to Yemen every year, making remittances one of the country’s largest and most consistent sources of foreign currency. The primary corridor runs through Saudi Arabia, which accounts for an estimated 61 percent of Yemen's formally recorded remitt…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 28: Arran Walshe](https://www.merip.org/2026/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-28-arran-walshe.md) - Today on the MERIP Podcast James Ryan talks with Arran Walshe, a journalist and researcher based in Amman. Walshe is the author of “Alternative Amman–Making Counterculture in the Jordanian Capital,” which appeared in our summer issue of Middle East Report, Art at Work–People, Power and Cultural Pro…
- [Mahmoud Khalil: No Land to Stand On](https://www.merip.org/event/mahmoud-khalil-no-land-to-stand-on.md) - September 25, 2026 @ 7 pm, Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA
- [MER 319: Art at Work–People, Power and Cultural Production](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/mer-319-art-at-work-people-power-and-cultural-production.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, We’re thrilled to share Issue 319 of Middle East Report, “Art at Work–People, Power and Cultural Production.” Across the region today, art is being made, redefined and reimagined under extreme conditions of war, political upheaval and the interplay of state and market cap…
- [The Business of Culture](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/the-business-of-culture.md) - A Review of Beth Derderian's ‘Art Capital: Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi'
- [‘Women at Work’—Challenging the Art/Craft Divide](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/women-at-work-challenging-the-art-craft-divide.md) - A review of the Dalloul Art Foundation’s 2025 exhibition.
- [The Grandmothers’ Anger—Theater at the Margins of Occupation](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/the-grandmothers-anger-theater-at-the-margins-of-occupation.md) - Playwright Lekaa Sharaf speaks with anthropologist Maria Kastrinou about theater in the Golan and the art of listening amid ongoing occupation and genocide.
- [Listening to the Jazira—Songs as Counter Archives in Northeast Syria](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/listening-to-the-jazira-songs-as-counter-archives-in-northeast-syria.md) - Local shaabi music legend Khader al Nasser calls himself the “master” as he professes to teach a group of young women about love while plucking chickens in an old music video circulating on YouTube. Eventually a group of women elders kick him out for his mischievousness. It is ridiculous, endearing…
- [Soundtrack of Dissent—The Music of Protest in Iran](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/soundtrack-of-dissent-the-music-of-protest-in-iran.md) - In February 2026, one month after mass protests in Iran led to a government crackdown killing thousands, Shervin Hajipour released a new song from inside the country. Hajipour had become internationally known during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests of 2022, when his song “Baraye” went viral before…
- [Exhibiting the Gulf—Kuwait’s Overlooked Role in Regional Art](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/exhibiting-the-gulf-kuwaits-overlooked-role-in-regional-art.md) - In February 2026, the international Art Basel festival was held for the first time in Qatar and is scheduled to return in January 2027. In November 2026, London’s Frieze art fair is due to launch Frieze Abu Dhabi. The festivals mark a growing trend—mirrored in construction of the Louvre and Guggenh…
- ['Closed Until Further Notice'—Keeping a Tehran Art Institution Alive During Wartime](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/closed-until-further-notice-keeping-a-tehran-art-institution-alive-during-wartime.md) - Artist Parham Ghalamdar interviews Hamidreza Pejman on the shifting role of cultural institutions during crisis.
- [Arab AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital Kitsch](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/the-kitsch-machine-the-precarious-polti-behind-arab-ai-slop.md) - As Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the subsequent regional war reshape the Arab internet, AI-generated slop has emerged as a new form of digital kitsch and political fantasy fueled by precarious labor.
- [Alternative Amman—Making Counterculture in the Jordanian Capital](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/alternative-amman-making-counterculture-in-the-jordanian-capital.md) - On a balmy April night in Amman’s Jabal Al-Weibdeh, a DJ was perched on the roof of Zawyeh Space, leaning over a battered mixer as a small crowd of mostly twenty-somethings chatted under the sky. A short walk away at The Village in Jabal Amman, the city’s only metal festival, Rock On, was celebrati…
- [On Drawing the Act of Looking](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/on-drawing-the-act-of-looking.md) - A visual essay on witnessing and rendering violence.
- [Gazing into Gaza with Mahmoud Alhaj](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/gazing-into-gaza-with-mahmoud-alhaj.md) - A visual essay featuring Alhaj’s 2024 exhibition 'Control Anatomy.’
- [Issue 319 (Summer 2026) Masthead](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/issue-319-summer-2026-masthead.md) - Middle East Report, “Art at Work—People, Power and Cultural Production,” Summer 2026, No. 319, Vol. 55 No. 2 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Billie Jeanne Brownlee bbrownlee@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Senior Staff Editor & Photo E…
- [A Note on the Cover Image](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/a-note-on-the-cover-image-12.md) - Manal Mahamid’s silkscreen print, 48 Cacti, 2024, boldly introduces the themes of our summer 2026 issue, “Art at Work—People, Power and Cultural Production.” The fruit of the sabr cactus, or prickly pear, is repeated 48 times in a colorful grid. Each element is meaningful: the number 48, this parti…
- [25 Years Since 9/11 And Still No Justice—Here's Why](https://www.merip.org/event/25-years-since-9-11-and-still-no-justice-heres-why.md) - September 13, 2026 @ 5PM EST, Busboys and Poets 14th and V
- [NEW: Arab AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital Kitsch](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/new-arab-ai-slop-and-the-precarious-politics-of-digital-kitsch.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, If you spend any time on social media, you’ve seen the uncannily rendered videos and memes known colloquially as AI slop, crudely generated videos playing on stereotypes meant to generate viral outrage. In our upcoming summer issue of Middle East Report, Nermin Elsherif l…
- [NEW: ‘Closed Until Further Notice’ – Keeping a Tehran Art Institution Alive During Wartime](https://www.merip.org/2026/08/new-closed-until-further-notice-keeping-a-tehran-art-institution-alive-during-wartime.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, The US and Israeli war has altered daily life in Iran. Between airstrikes that have destroyed basic infrastructure across the country and a regime bent on repressing political expression, the institutions that sustain cultural life have had to navigate some perilous strai…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 27: Susanne Dahlgren](https://www.merip.org/2026/07/the-merip-podcast-episode-27-susanne-dahlgren.md) - Today’s episode of the MERIP Podcast features a conversation between MERIP executive director James Ryan and Susanne Dahlgren, a longtime MERIP contributor and analyst focused on Yemen whose recent essay, “Yemen After the Saudi-Emirati Split” appeared in our Current Analysis section on July 8, 2026…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 26: The MERIP Roundtable, On the World Cup 2026](https://www.merip.org/2026/07/the-merip-podcast-episode-26-the-merip-roundtable-on-the-world-cup-2026.md) - On today’s program we have another installment of our MERIP Roundtable, where MERIP’s executive director, James Ryan is joined by past and present members of our editorial committee, along with recent contributors, to discuss current events. This edition focuses on the 2026 World Cup, now in its fi…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 25: Iran in Context Part II](https://www.merip.org/2026/07/the-merip-podcast-episode-25-iran-in-context-part-ii.md) - Politics and Counter Politics in Contemporary Iran
- [NEW: Yemen After the Saudi-Emirati Split](https://www.merip.org/2026/07/new-yemen-after-the-saudi-emirati-split.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, In the midst of the war on Iran and the ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, the protracted conflict for Yemen’s future has slid out of view for many. Today we are sharing with you a critical assessment of some important developments there, courtesy…
- [Yemen After the Saudi-Emirati Split](https://www.merip.org/2026/07/yemen-after-the-saudi-emirati-split.md) - In early December 2025, Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) took many by surprise when it seized control of the country’s oil-rich Hadhramaut governorate, a region that had been under the control of Saudi-backed forces. After its eastern neighbor al-Mahra declared allegiance to the STC, the…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 24: Iran in Context Part I](https://www.merip.org/2026/06/the-merip-podcast-episode-24-iran-in-context-part-i.md) - Gender and Revolution
- [Iran in Context Part II: Politics and Counter Politics in Contemporary Iran](https://www.merip.org/event/iran-in-context-part-ii-politics-and-counter-politics-in-contemporary-iran.md) - July 2, 2026 @ 12PM EST
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 23: Ayça Alemdaroğlu](https://www.merip.org/2026/06/the-merip-podcast-episode-23-ayca-alemdaroglu.md) - Today’s episode of the MERIP Podcast features an interview with Ayça Alemdaroğlu about her article, “The Capture of Turkey’s Universities Under the AKP,” in our Spring 2026 issue, “Campus Politics–Palestine and the New University Order.” MERIP executive director James Ryan spoke with Alemdaroğlu ab…
- [NEW: Rethinking Political Change in Iran From Protest to War](https://www.merip.org/2026/06/new-rethinking-political-change-in-iran-from-protest-to-war.md) - Mohammad Ali Kadivar on Iran's protests and political culture
- [Rethinking Political Change in Iran from Protest to War](https://www.merip.org/2026/06/rethinking-political-change-in-iran-from-protest-to-war.md) - One month before the United States and Israel began the current war against Iran on February 28, 2026, mass uprisings within the country resulted in the severest government crackdown in its modern history. Protests and repression were accompanied by calls for outside intervention. US President Dona…
- [Iran in Context Part I: Gender and Revolution](https://www.merip.org/event/iran-in-context-part-i-gender-and-revolution.md) - June 18, 2026 @ 10:00 AM EST
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 22: Aslı Bâli and Darryl Li](https://www.merip.org/2026/05/the-merip-podcast-episode-22-asli-bali-and-darryl-li.md) - Today's episode of the MERIP Podcast features an interview with two contributors to the spring issue of Middle East Report, “Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order.” Since the beginning of world-wide campus protests in the wake of October 7, 2023, there has been a tremendous upswell…
- [MER 318: Campus Politics–Palestine and the New University Order](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/mer-318-campus-politics-palestine-and-the-new-university-order.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Today, we published our spring 2026 issue of Middle East Report, “Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order.” Its publication comes on the second anniversary of the university encampments, the high point of campus mobilizations against the Gaza genocide that…
- [‘Real Revolutionaries Don’t Punch Down’—Remembering Muzan Alneel](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/real-revolutionaries-dont-punch-down-remembering-muzan-alneel.md) - In Memoriam.
- [How German Media Failed Gaza](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/how-german-media-failed-gaza.md) - A new German book uses extensive data to show how Germany’s Gaza coverage tracked state doctrine and a compliant media system.
- [The Capture of Turkey’s Universities Under the AKP](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/the-cumulative-capture-of-turkeys-universities-under-the-akp.md) - How the AKP transformed an expanded university system into a terrain of political control.
- [Student Protest and the Politics of Palestine in Egypt](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/student-protest-and-the-politics-of-palestine-in-egypt.md) - In October 2023, two weeks after Israel launched a brutal assault on Gaza, the Egyptian government permitted the first sizable protests in support of Palestine. At Benha University, about 30 miles north of Cairo in the Nile Delta, students and university administrators joined together in what the u…
- [The Palestine Test for German Universities](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/the-palestine-test-for-german-universities.md) - In February 2025, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) cancelled a planned lecture by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The university cited polarization and security risks after intense political pressure from Berlin’s gover…
- [Fighting the Campus Crackdown](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/fighting-the-campus-crackdown-why-the-middle-east-studies-association-took-the-trump-administration-to-court.md) - Why the Middle East Studies Association Took the Trump Administration to Court
- [After the Encampments—A Roundtable with Student Organizers on Palestine, the University and What Comes Next](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/after-the-encampments-a-roundtable-with-student-organizers-on-palestine-the-university-and-what-comes-next.md) - For issue 318, Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order, MERIP editorial committee member Maya Wind organized a roundtable with six student activists representing five student collectives from Europe and the United States: Marilù with Collettivi Autorganizzati Universitari (Italy); Ma…
- [‘The University Is a Site of Struggle’—A Roundtable with Faculty Organizers on Repression and Resistance on US Campuses](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/the-university-is-a-site-of-struggle-a-roundtable-on-repression-and-resistance-on-us-campuses.md) - As part of MER issue 318, Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order, MERIP editor Lisa Hajjar organized a roundtable with faculty organizers and a legal advocate. Lara Deeb is professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Scripps College and serves as co-chair of the Middle East…
- [Issue 318 (Spring 2026) Masthead](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/issue-318-spring-2026-masthead.md) - Middle East Report, “Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order,” Spring 2026, No. 318, Vol. 55 No. 1 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Billie Jeanne Brownlee bbrownlee@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Senior Staff Editor & Ph…
- [A Note on the Cover Image](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/a-note-on-the-cover-image-11.md) - The cover image for MER issue 318, Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order, is a photograph of a demonstration held in Philadelphia on December 3, 2023, co-hosted by Penn Students Against the Occupation and four other organizations. The picture was taken by Abhiram Juvvadi for the Da…
- [Palestine and the New University Order](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/palestine-and-the-new-university-order.md) - From the editors of MER issue 318
- [Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/censorship-and-surveillance-at-us-universities.md) - The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students, was composed of prints bearing slogans of solidarity such as “We keep us safe.” Its black and whi…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 21: Susann Kassem, Lara Deeb and Habib Battah](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/the-merip-podcast-episode-21-susann-kassem-lara-deeb-and-habib-battah.md) - Today on the podcast three MERIP contributors discuss Lebanon’s tenuous, one-sided ceasefire with Israel. Even as officials in the Lebanese government have entered into negotiations with Israel, an unprecedented diplomatic move with questionable legal status under Lebanese law, Israel has violated…
- [NEW: Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/new-censorship-and-surveillance-at-us-universities.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we’re publishing the first piece from our forthcoming issue on campus activism and repression since October 7, 2023. In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities,” Torin Monahan details the expansive apparatus used by university administrations, often followin…
- [NEW: ‘Our Compass is Broken’—Israel’s Ongoing War on South Lebanon](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/new-our-compass-is-broken-israels-ongoing-war-on-south-lebanon.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Amid the escalating US and Israeli war on Iran, the Israeli invasion of South Lebanon is intensifying. In addition to drone and missile attacks in Beirut, Israel is carrying out a combined ground and aerial campaign aimed at creating a so-called buffer zone up to the Lita…
- ['Our Compass is Broken'—Israel's Ongoing War in South Lebanon](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/our-compass-is-broken-israels-ongoing-war-in-south-lebanon.md) - Every day since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza in 2023, my father, like many other villagers from Lebanon’s south, has listened to the news in the hope of hearing that he can return to our village along the border of South Lebanon and rebuild our house. In their 2024 invasion Israeli soldier…
- [Kicking Off Delco Gives 2026-Support Our Work!](https://www.merip.org/2026/04/kicking-off-delco-gives-2026-support-our-work.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Today marks the beginning of Delco Gives, a fundraising campaign sponsored by the Foundation for Delaware County in which MERIP is participating. While much of MERIP’s work is spread out over the country and the globe, we relocated our base of operations as a 501(c)3 nonp…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 20: The MERIP Roundtable, On the Iran War Part III](https://www.merip.org/2026/03/the-merip-podcast-episode-20-the-merip-roundtable-on-the-iran-war-part-iii.md) - Today’s episode is the third installment of our MERIP Roundtable discussing the war on Iran, instigated by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026, and its regional reverberations. This episode focuses on Israel’s expanded war on Lebanon. Following the assassination of Ali Khamanei, supre…
- [War Across Boundaries–Perspectives on Iran and a Region Under Siege](https://www.merip.org/2026/03/war-across-boundaries-perspectives-on-iran-and-a-region-under-siege.md) - On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, initiating a war with wide-ranging consequences for Iran and the broader region and devastating effects for their populations. Already, millions have been displaced and thousands killed. But this war is not a sudden rup…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 19: The MERIP Roundtable, On the Iran War Part II](https://www.merip.org/2026/03/the-merip-podcast-episode-19-the-merip-roundtable-on-the-iran-war-part-ii.md) - On today’s episode of the MERIP Roundtable our discussion focused on people’s experiences of the war on Iran and throughout the region two and a half weeks in. Much of the discussion of this war in the western media has centered on the strategic calculus of the United States and Israel in deciding…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 18: The MERIP Roundtable, On The Iran War Part I](https://www.merip.org/2026/03/the-merip-podcast-episode-18-the-merip-roundtable-on-the-iran-war-part-i.md) - On the social impact and regional politics of the US-Israeli war on Iran
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 17: Niema Alhessen](https://www.merip.org/2026/03/the-merip-podcast-episode-17-niema-alhessen.md) - Today’s episode of the MERIP Podcast features an interview with Niema Alhessen, a Sudanese researcher based in Cairo who is focused on urban conflict and displacement. She is the author of “Burri Under Siege—How War Remade Everyday Life in a Sudanese Neighborhood” in our Winter 2025 issue of Middle…
- [The US and Israeli War on the Middle East](https://www.merip.org/2026/03/the-us-and-israeli-war-on-the-middle-east.md) - Our recent work understanding the dynamics
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 16: Iman Ali](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/the-merip-podcast-episode-16-iman-ali.md) - In today’s episode Iman Ali talks about her recently published article, “Repair Amid Ongoing Ruination—Rebuilding Dahiyeh Once More,” which appeared in our Winter 2025 issue, “Reconstruction and Ruin.” Iman Ali, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Cornell University, has been conducting fieldwo…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 15: In the Archive with Brahim El Guabli](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/the-merip-podcast-episode-15-in-the-archive-with-brahim-el-guabli.md) - On this episode of our In the Archive series, MERIP’s Executive Director, James Ryan, speaks with Brahim El Guabli about his essay, “The Sub-Saharan Turn in Moroccan Literature,” which appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Middle East Report, “Maghreb from the Margins.” El Guabli speaks about how mi…
- [NEW: MER 317, "Reconstruction and Ruin"](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/new-mer-317-reconstruction-and-ruin.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we are releasing our Winter 2025 issue of Middle East Report, “Reconstruction and Ruin.” This issue includes essays, dispatches and interviews that offer a grounded examination of the impact of war and reconstruction efforts (or lack thereof) on everyday people acro…
- [Kenneth L. Brown](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/kenneth-l-brown.md) - On June 7, 2025, the world lost Kenneth (Ken) Brown—an early MERIP contributor, journalist and wayward intellectual—after a long illness. While the name Kenneth Brown may not ring a bell for the current generation of Middle East Studies scholars, Ken was an extraordinary scholar and individual. A g…
- [Building from Scrap, Building Through Crisis](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/building-from-scrap-building-through-crisis.md) - On Umut Kuruüzüm’s materialist ethnography of war and reconstruction, 'Building from Scrap: War, Recycling, and Labor in Iraqi Kurdistan.'
- [Disarming the Camps—Palestinian Factions and the Limits of Lebanese Sovereignty](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/disarming-the-camps-palestinian-factions-and-the-limits-of-lebanese-sovereignty.md) - As Lebanon moves to disarm Palestinian camps under intense geopolitical pressure, long-standing factional rivalries, unresolved refugee rights and Israel’s continued military presence expose the limits of state sovereignty.
- [Mapping Destruction—A Conversation with Jamon Van Den Hoek of Conflict Ecology](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/mapping-destruction-a-conversation-with-jamon-van-den-hoek-of-conflict-ecology.md) - Changing scales of conflict and advances in satellite imagery are reshaping how damage is assessed.
- [Repair Amid Ongoing Ruination—Rebuilding Dahiyeh Once More](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/repair-amid-ongoing-ruination-rebuilding-dahiyeh-once-more.md) - Standing beside a destroyed building in Dahiyeh in September 2025, a fruit seller said to me, “I want to bring Naim Qassem [Hizballah’s new secretary general] here. I want to show him the damage. Our people need to do better.” He knew that, like him, I was Shia, and “our people” meant Hizballah. Re…
- [The Struggle for the City—Urban Recovery and Dispossession in Mosul and Damascus](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/the-struggle-for-the-city-urban-recovery-and-dispossession-in-mosul-and-damascus.md) - A walk through the old city of Mosul, Iraq, reveals an urban landscape still scarred by the violence of war and transfigured by ongoing reconstruction. Rubble-lined narrow streets give way to half-rebuilt homes and scaffolded storefronts, as merchants return and daily life resumes amid the heavy hu…
- [Burri Under Siege—How War Remade Everyday Life in a Sudanese Neighborhood](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/burri-under-siege-how-war-remade-everyday-life-in-a-sudanese-neighborhood.md) - In March 2025, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) retook key areas of eastern, central and southern Khartoum. Their advance ended the Rapid Support Force’s (RSF) two-year siege of Burri—a neighborhood of eight residential areas in central Khartoum along the Blue Nile River. As part of the metropolitan…
- [Rebuilding Gaza from the Ground Up](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/rebuilding-gaza-from-the-ground-up.md) - An Interview with Minerva Fadel of Architects for Gaza
- [Issue 317 (Winter 2025) Masthead](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/issue-317-winter-2025-masthead.md) - Middle East Report, “Reconstruction and Ruin,” Winter 2025, No. 317, Vol. 54 No. 4 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Billie Jeanne Brownlee bbrownlee@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Senior Staff Editor & Photo Editor Michelle Woodward mw…
- [A Note on the Cover Image](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/a-note-on-the-cover-image-10.md) - The cover of MER’s winter issue features an acrylic and oil on canvas painting by Syrian architect and artist Mohamed Al Mufti, from his series Urbacide. Produced in 2019 during the counter-revolutionary war in Syria, the painting deploys texture and contrast to depict a damaged urban streetscape:…
- [Call for Pitches—Visual Art & Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa](https://www.merip.org/2026/02/call-for-pitches-visual-art-cultural-production-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa.md) - MERIP is seeking pitches for our Summer 2026 issue exploring visual art and cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. We invite submissions that center artistic practices and cultural histories while attending to the political, social and material conditions in which art is made and…
- [NEW: Governing Crisis–Sanctions, Austerity and Social Unrest in Iran](https://www.merip.org/2026/01/new-governing-crisis-sanctions-austerity-and-social-unrest-in-iran.md) - New analysis on the protests from Ida Nikou
- [Governing Crisis—Sanctions, Austerity and Social Unrest in Iran](https://www.merip.org/2026/01/governing-crisis-sanctions-austerity-and-social-unrest-in-iran.md) - Recent protests triggered by currency collapse and price shocks expose how sanctions have reconfigured state power, enabling austerity and insider accumulation rather than relief.
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 14: The MERIP Roundtable, On Iran's Protests](https://www.merip.org/2026/01/the-merip-podcast-episode-14-the-merip-roundtable-on-irans-protests.md) - In this installment of the MERIP Roundtable podcast, we discuss the latest wave of protests in Iran. The protests began on December 28, 2025, as merchants and bazaar workers reacted negatively to new budgetary measures announced by President Masoud Pezeshkian. The protests snowballed in the first w…
- [MERIP's Top 10 of 2025](https://www.merip.org/2025/12/merips-top-10-of-2025.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we’re sharing with you the 10 most-viewed articles we published in 2025. Each of these pieces provides crucial, current analysis of regional dynamics driven by Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza: from the impacts of AI as both a technology of war and tool to manage refuge…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 13: Ned Leadbeater](https://www.merip.org/2025/12/the-merip-podcast-episode-13-ned-leadbeater.md) - Today on the podcast we have an interview with Ned Leadbeater, a researcher and analyst based in Britain who recently wrote an article for our Summer/Fall double issue on the material politics of normalization titled, “Fiber Optics and the Hidden Politics of Connectivity.” His article explores the…
- [Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History](https://www.merip.org/2025/12/palestine-36-and-the-hard-facts-of-history.md) - Annemarie Jacir’s epic portrayal of the revolt that never ended.
- [NEW: Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade](https://www.merip.org/2025/12/new-dirty-work-the-hidden-machinery-and-human-toll-of-europes-broken-recycling-trade.md) - By Adnan Khan
- [Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade](https://www.merip.org/2025/12/dirty-work-the-hidden-machinery-and-human-toll-of-europes-broken-recycling-trade.md) - As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting and a rising death toll of migrant laborers.
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 12: Honoring Joe Stork, Live in DC](https://www.merip.org/2025/12/the-merip-podcast-episode-12-honoring-joe-stork-live-in-dc.md) - Featuring Sarah Leah Whitson, Lisa Hajjar, Mouin Rabbani, Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman, Rick Reinhard, Joan Mandell and Joost Hiltermann
- [Support MERIP on Giving Tuesday](https://www.merip.org/2025/12/support-merip-on-giving-tuesday.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, Two weekends ago, friends and colleagues gathered in Washington, DC for the annual Middle East Studies Association conference, where we reflected on and honored the memory of our co-founder and longtime editor, Joe Stork, who passed away a little over a year ago. At the c…
- [NEW: ‘We Want to Breathe’ – Dispatch from Tunisia](https://www.merip.org/2025/11/new-we-want-to-breathe-dispatch-from-tunisia.md) - By Dhouha Djerbi
- ['We Want to Breathe'—Dispatch from Gabes, Tunisia](https://www.merip.org/2025/11/we-want-to-breathe-dispatch-from-gabes-tunisia.md) - A few weeks into the 2025 school year, in a middle school in Chott Essalem, Tunisia, students began to feel dizzy and light-headed and their throats tightened. Within minutes, they began collapsing, one after another. More mass asphyxiation events, as residents describe them, occurred throughout th…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 11: In the Archive with Beshara Doumani](https://www.merip.org/2025/11/the-merip-podcast-episode-11-in-the-archive-with-beshara-doumani.md) - Today we have a very special episode, part of a new occasional series that will highlight some of the truly great work MERIP has done over the last 50-plus years, all of which is free to read in our archive. In the first of this series, we’re featuring the landmark essay “Abu Farid’s House” written…
- [Dick Cheney Dead](https://www.merip.org/2025/11/dick-cheney-dead.md) - An Archival Remix on the Neoconservative Legacy
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Ten: Raouf Farrah](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/the-merip-podcast-episode-10-raouf-farrah.md) - On the Sumud Convoy, the Gaza Flotilla, and North African Solidarity
- [Staff Changes at MERIP](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/staff-changes-at-merip.md) - Dear Friends and Comrades, This week has been full of exciting announcements about our new issue and website, and today I’m writing to share an important change to our masthead. Over the summer, our executive editor Katie Natanel rotated off our editorial team after 3 and a half years. Katie came o…
- [Our Latest Issue and New Website](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/our-latest-issue-and-new-website.md) - Material Politics of Normalization, and the New MERIP.ORG
- [Honoring Joe Stork, Live in DC](https://www.merip.org/event/honoring-joe-stork-live-in-dc.md) - November 22 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
- [The Limits of Protection and Profits—Five Years into the Abraham Accords](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/the-limits-of-protection-and-profits-five-years-into-the-abraham-accords.md) - A Review of Elham Fakhro’s ‘The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization.’
- [On the Road to Rafah—The Sumud Convoy and New Maghrebi Geographies of Resistance](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/on-the-road-to-rafah-the-sumud-convoy-and-new-maghrebi-geographies-of-resistance.md) - When the last bus came to a halt in Sirte, a coastal city in Central Libya, many thought it marked the end of the road. But it was only a turning point. What began as the Sumud Convoy—a historic act of Maghrebi solidarity with Palestine—had already transformed into something more: a living, popular…
- [Refusing the New Normal—An Interview with the Gulf Coalition Against Normalisation](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/refusing-the-new-normal-an-interview-with-the-gulf-coalition-against-normalisation.md) - MER’s Summer/Fall issue examines the material underpinnings of normalization five years after the Abraham Accords and amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza—developments rejected and contested by peoples across the Gulf. The Gulf Coalition Against Normalisation (Gulf CAN), founded in 2019, unites groups…
- [Identity and Cultural Diplomacy of the Abraham Accords](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/identity-and-cultural-diplomacy-of-the-abraham-accords.md) - In December 2020, three months after the Abraham Accords were signed enabling the first commercial flights between Israel and the UAE, a short video went modestly viral on Israeli twitter. A man in a white dishdasha and ghutra introduces his friends to the camera as curious bystanders look on. They…
- [The Abraham Accords and Sudan’s Global Counterrevolution](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/the-abraham-accords-and-sudans-global-counterrevolution.md) - On October 23, 2020, Sudan became the third Arab-majority country to normalize relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords. The deal between Israel and the civilian-military Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC)—formed after the popular revolution ousted President Omar al-Bashir in Ap…
- [Israeli Agribusiness and Morocco’s Green Frontier](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/israeli-agribusiness-and-moroccos-green-frontier.md) - In March 2023, the Israeli firm Netafim—a global provider of drip irrigation technology—opened its first Moroccan factory in the city of Kenitra. The company framed the move as a step to “strengthen the successful implementation of precision irrigation in the kingdom and reinforce its agricultural…
- [Energy, Water and the Cost of Jordan’s Dependence on Israel](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/energy-water-and-the-cost-of-jordans-dependence-on-israel.md) - On the morning of June 13, 2025, air-raid sirens sounded across Amman and other Jordanian cities warning residents to shelter in place. Hours earlier, Israel had launched an unprecedented attack on Iran, triggering 12 days of retaliatory missile and drone strikes. As Israeli fighter jets and Wester…
- [From Oslo to Offshore—The Rise of Energy Normalization in the Eastern Mediterranean](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/from-oslo-to-offshore-the-rise-of-energy-normalization-in-the-eastern-mediterranean.md) - When US President Donald Trump’s first administration unveiled its “Peace to Prosperity” plan in January 2020, the glossy document promised Palestinians a share in regional growth. Part of its vision was an Eastern Mediterranean Energy Hub anchored in Egypt, designed to coordinate gas development a…
- [Fiber Optics and the Hidden Politics of Connectivity](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/fiber-optics-and-the-hidden-politics-of-connectivity.md) - On February 18, 2024, Houthi forces in Yemen fired two ballistic missiles at the MV Rubymar, a Belize flagged, British owned, bulk carrier cargo ship. The crew dropped anchor and evacuated, but the ship began to drift. Six days later it crossed the path of three intercontinental submarine data cabl…
- [The Military-Industrial Backbone of Normalization](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/the-military-industrial-backbone-of-normalization.md) - In February 2025, as international condemnation of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza reached new heights, Abu Dhabi hosted the International Defence Exhibition and Conference. Over five days a record 34 Israeli arms companies, including giants like Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced Defen…
- [Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/hardwiring-normalization-infrastructures-extraction-and-gazas-future.md) - In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust. At first glance, it resembled countless other speculative development schemes, renderings of luxury resort…
- [Issue 315/316 (Summer/Fall 2025) Masthead](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/issue-315-316-summer-fall-2025-masthead.md) - Middle East Report, “The Material Politics of Normalization,” Summer/Fall 2025, No. 315/316, Vol. 54 No. 2–3 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Billie Jeanne Brownlee bbrownlee@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Senior Staff Editor & Photo E…
- [A Note on the Masthead](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/a-note-on-the-masthead.md) - Over the summer, MERIP’s executive editor Katie Natanel rotated off the editorial team after three and a half years. Katie joined at the beginning of MERIP’s partnership with Exeter’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, stepping into what was then a new position within the organization. Behind…
- [A Note on the Cover Image](https://www.merip.org/2025/10/a-note-on-the-cover-image-9.md) - The cover of MER’s Summer/Fall double issue, “The Material Politics of Normalization,” features a 2020 illustration by Bahraini artist Sara Qaed. The image—a pair of scissors bent into the Arabic word for “no” (la)—was published on Qaed’s Instagram two days before the signing of the Abraham Accords…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Nine: The MERIP Roundtable, "On The Regional War"](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-nine-the-merip-roundtable-on-the-regional-war.md) - Featuring Maziyar Ghiabi, Shana Marshall and Kevin Schwartz
- [Syria at the Crossroads: Regional Politics and the Movement for Palestine](https://www.merip.org/event/syria-at-the-crossroads-regional-politics-and-the-movement-for-palestine.md) - June 23 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Eight: Helen Lackner](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-eight-helen-lackner.md) - This episode of the MERIP podcast features an interview with longtime MERIP contributor and noted journalist Helen Lackner on the state of Yemen's Houthi movement. The conversation with MERIP Executive Director James Ryan follows up on her essay, "Yemen's Ansar Allah" that was published in our Wint…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Seven: Syria at the Crossroads III](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-seven-syria-at-the-crossroads-iii.md) - This week in the feed we have the audio from our August 14th, 2025 event "Syria at the Crossroads: Unpacking Sectarianism and the Crisis in Suweida." The conversation features perspectives from Syrian journalists, scholars, and activists Sara Ajlyakin, Sana Mustafa, and Yasser Munif, and was co-mod…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode 6: The MERIP Roundtable, "On Recognition"](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-6-the-merip-roundtable-on-recognition.md) - The MERIP Roundtable is a new format for the MERIP podcast featuring conversation on urgent issues in the Middle East with members of MERIP's Editorial Committee. The theme of this episode's conversation is "Recognition" -- both the widening circle of Israeli, diaspora, and Jewish figures and insti…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Five: Syria at the Crossroads II](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-five-syria-at-the-crossroads-ii.md) - This week on the MERIP Podcast Feed we have the audio recording of our June 23rd event "Syria at the Crossroads: Regional Politics and the Movement for Palestine." This conversation was the second in our series jointly produced with SPECTRE: A Marxist Journal. It featured a discussion of the wider…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Four: Syria at the Crossroads I](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-four-syria-at-the-crossroads-i.md) - This week on the feed is the audio recording of our zoom event "Syria at the Crossroads: Popular Revolt, Counterrevolution, and Regional Transformation" featuring Leila Al-Shami, Wafa Mustafa, and Djene Bajalan. Syria at the Crossroads is a special event series co-produced by MERIP and SPECTRE: A M…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Three: Habib Battah](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-three-habib-battah.md) - This week on the MERIP Podcast we're featuring an interview with the Lebanese journalist Habib Battah, author of "Beirut and the Birth of the Fortress Embassy" which was published in Middle East Report Online in April 2024. Battah has recently returned to Lebanon for the first time since we publish…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode Two: New Gender Frontlines Launch](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/the-merip-podcast-episode-two-new-gender-frontlines-launch.md) - This week in the MERIP Podcast feed we have the audio recording of our launch event for the latest issue of Middle East Report, New Gender Frontlines. Hosted by MERIP Executive Director, James Ryan, and featuring a panel with MERIP Editorial Committee member and issue editor Sabiha Allouche (Univer…
- [The MERIP Podcast Episode One: Mona Tajali](https://www.merip.org/2025/09/merip-podcast-episode-one-mona-tajali.md) - The first episode of the MERIP Podcast features an interview with Mona Tajali, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law about her piece, “Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran” which was published in our latest issue “New Gender Frontlines.” In…
- [Syria at the Crossroads: Unpacking Sectarianism and the Crisis in Suweida](https://www.merip.org/event/syria-at-the-crossroads-unpacking-sectarianism-and-the-crisis-in-suweida.md) - August 14 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
- [Sami Zubaida](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/sami-zubaida.md) - Sami Zubaida, an exceptional scholar of Middle Eastern political sociology, law and culinary culture, passed away in London on April 6, 2025. Born to an Iraqi Jewish family, Sami left Iraq to pursue higher education in the United Kingdom. He received his BA degree from the University of Hull and hi…
- [Deportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the United States](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/deportation-as-punishment-2.md) - At dawn on December 9, 2024, hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered at Turkey's Cilvegözü and Öncüpınar border crossings into northern Syria to return home following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government. Wrapped in blankets and clutching their children and possessions, they waited in anticipation…
- [Unpacking the Gender 'Paradox’ Behind Arab Women in Tech](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/unpacking-the-gender-paradox-behind-arab-women-in-tech.md) - Compared to women in the United States and most European countries, Arab women are highly represented in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related computing fields. In fact, six of the ten countries with the highest rates of women studying ICT are in the Arab world, according to UN…
- [Courts of Exclusion—Working-Class Masculinity and Anti-Afghan Racism in Iran](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/banned-from-the-game-working-class-masculinity-and-anti-afghan-racism-in-iran.md) - In 2016, Gol Agha, a ball boy and worker at a private tennis club in Tajrish—an affluent neighborhood in northern Tehran—went to an administrative office in Karaj to receive a headcount slip. There, Gol Agha was told by employees at the registration desk that the headcount slip could open avenues f…
- [Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/women-and-politics-in-post-jina-iran.md) - The past and present of Woman, Life, Freedom. Featuring an update from Iranian civil society on Israel’s expanding war.
- [Syria's New Men](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/syrias-new-men-2.md) - Masculinity and the post-Asad political order.
- [Shifting Feminist Narratives in Sudan—A Conversation with Raga Makawi](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/shifting-feminist-narratives-in-sudan-a-conversation-with-raga-makawi.md) - Women and the gender dynamics behind Sudan's revolution and war.
- [Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/israels-war-on-reproduction-in-gaza-2.md) - On reprocide as a tactic of eliminationist violence.
- [Gender, Politics and Scholarship—A Roundtable](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/gender-politics-and-scholarship-a-roundtable.md) - On March 3, 2025, MERIP and the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies partnered with Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies to host a roundtable on the past, present and future of feminist approaches to Middle East and North African Studies. The event br…
- [Issue 314 (Spring 2025) Masthead](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/issue-314-spring-2025-masthead.md) - Middle East Report, “New Gender Frontlines,” Spring 2025, No. 314, Vol. 54 No. 1 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Katie Natanel katienatanel@merip.org Managing Editor Marya Hannun maryahannun@merip.org Photo Editor Michelle Woodward mwoodward@merip.org Staff Editor…
- [A Note on the Cover Image](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/a-note-on-the-cover-image-8.md) - Raed Issa’s 2024 series, Faces from My Homeland, illuminates the cover of MER issue 314 “New Gender Frontlines.” The work—a mix of charcoal, coffee, pomegranate and hibiscus painted on repurposed medicine packages from Gaza—depicts a grid of women’s faces, spanning generations and conditions: from…
- [Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza](https://www.merip.org/2025/06/israels-war-on-reproduction-in-gaza.md) - Hala Shoman reports on reprocide as a tactic of eliminationist violence.

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