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MER Magazine
Material Politics of Normalization
Issue 315-316
Summer/Fall 2025
New Gender Frontlines
Issue 314
Spring 2025
Resistance—The Axis and Beyond
Issue 313
Winter 2024
Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams
Issue 312
Fall 2024
Post-Fossil Politics
Issue 311
Summer 2024
The Struggle for Sudan
Issue 310
Spring 2024
Palestine
Issue 309
Winter 2023
Front Lines
Issue 307-308
The State of Iraq—20 Years After the Invasion
Issue 306
Spring 2023
Peripheries and Borderlands
Issue 305
Winter 2022
Football—Politics and Passions
Issue 304
Fall 2022
Currencies of Power
Issue 303
Summer 2022
Settler Colonialism’s Enduring Entanglements
Issue 302
Spring 2022
Revolutionary Afterlives
Issue 301
Winter 2021
MERIP at 50
Issue 300
Fall 2021
Race—Legacies and Challenges
Issue 299
Summer 2021
Maghreb From the Margins
Issue 298
Spring 2021
Health and the Body Politic
Issue 297
Winter 2020
Nature and Politics
Issue 296
Fall 2020
Kurdistan, One and Many
Issue 295
Summer 2020
Exit Empire
Issue 294
Spring 2020
Return to Revolution
Issue 292-3
Fall/Winter 2019
Paper Trails
Issue 291
Summer 2019
The New Landscape of Intervention
Issue 290
Spring 2019
The Fight For Yemen
Issue 289
Winter 2018
Confronting the New Turkey
Issue 288
Fall 2018
Cities Lost and Remade
Issue 287
Summer 2018
Suffering
Issue 286
Spring 2018
The Latin East
Issue 284-285
Winter 2017
America First 2.0
Issue 283
Summer 2017
Transnational Palestine
Issue 282
Spring 2017
Activism
Issue 281
Winter 2016
Politics on the Move
Issue 280
Fall 2016
Israel's War Record in Gaza
Issue 279
Summer 2016
Life in Exile
Issue 278
Spring 2016
Iran's Many Deals
Issue 277
Winter 2015
ISIS
Issue 276
Fall 2015
Inside the Inside
Issue 275
Summer 2015
Visions
Issue 274
Spring 2015
Yemen's Times of Turmoil
Issue 273
Winter 2014
Views from the Provinces
Issue 272
Fall 2014
Fuel and Water
Issue 271
Summer 2014
China in the Middle East
Issue 270
Spring 2014
Struggling for Syria
Issue 269
Winter 2013
Gender Front Lines
Issue 268
Fall 2013
Christians
Issue 267
Summer 2013
Iraq Ten Years Later
Issue 266
Spring 2013
Egypt
Issue 265
Winter 2012
Pivot, Rebalance, Retrench
Issue 264
Fall 2012
The Art and Culture of the Arab Revolts
Issue 263
Summer 2012
Pull of the Possible
Issue 262
Spring 2012
Illicit Crossings
Issue 261
Winter 2011
9/11/11
Issue 260
Fall 2011
North Africa
Issue 259
Summer 2011
People Power
Issue 258
Spring 2011
The Iran-Iraq War 30 Years Later
Issue 257
Winter 2010
Red Sea Roiling
Issue 256
Fall 2010
Weapons of the Strong
Issue 255
Summer 2010
Running Dry
Issue 254
Spring 2010
Apartheid and Beyond
Issue 253
Winter 2009
Getting by in the Global Downturn
Issue 252
Fall 2009
Pakistan Under Pressure
Issue 251
Summer 2009
The Islamic Revolution at 30
Issue 250
Spring 2009
Shrinking Capital
Issue 249
Winter 2008
Waiting
Issue 248
Fall 2008
The Kurds and the Future
Issue 247
Summer 2008
Empire's Eastern Reach
Issue 246
Spring 2008
The Politics of Youth
Issue 245
Winter 2007
Displaced
Issue 244
Fall 2007
The War Economy of Iraq
Issue 243
Summer 2007
The Shi`a in the Arab World
Issue 242
Spring 2007
Iran
Issue 241
Winter 2006
Life Under Siege
Issue 240
Fall 2006
Dispatches from the War Zones
Issue 239
Summer 2006
Year of Elections
Issue 238
Spring 2006
Fragments of the State
Issue 237
Winter 2005
Inside Syria and Lebanon
Issue 236
Fall 2005
Europe and Islam
Issue 235
Summer 2005
The Bush Team Reloaded
Issue 234
Spring 2005
Iran's Clouded Horizons
Issue 233
Winter 2004
The Iraq Impasse
Issue 232
Fall 2004
Two State Dis/Solution
Issue 231
Summer 2004
Sexuality, Suppression and the State
Issue 230
Spring 2004
International Justice, Local Injustices
Issue 229
Winter 2003
Iraq Under Occupation
Issue 228
Fall 2003
America's Iraq
Issue 227
Summer 2003
Dissent
Issue 226
Spring 2003
In the Shadow of War
Issue 225
Winter 2002
Arabs, Muslims and Race in America
Issue 224
Fall 2002
Barriers to Peace
Issue 223
Summer 2002
War Without Borders
Issue 222
Spring 2002
Islam
Issue 221
Winter 2001
Shaky Foundations
Issue 220
Fall 2001
Culture and Politics
Issue 219
Summer 2001
Morocco in Transition
Issue 218
Spring 2001
Beyond Oslo
Issue 217
Winter 2000
Losing Ground?
Issue 216
Fall 2000
Iraq
Issue 215
Summer 2000
Critiquing NGOs
Issue 214
Spring 2000
Millennial Middle East
Issue 213
Winter 1999
Pushing the Limits
Issue 212
Fall 1999
Trafficking and Transiting
Issue 211
Summer 1999
Reform or Reaction?
Issue 210
Spring 1999
Behind the Ballot Box
Issue 209
Winter 1998
Critical Assessments
Issue 208
Fall 1998
Who Paid the Price?
Issue 207
Summer 1998
Power and Sexuality in the Middle East
Issue 206
Spring 1998
Middle East Studies Networks
Issue 205
Winter 1997
The Arabian Peninsula
Issue 204
Fall 1997
Lebanon and Syria
Issue 203
Summer 1997
Cairo
Issue 202
Spring 1997
Israel and Palestine
Issue 201
Winter 1996
Power and the Politics of Difference
Issue 200
Fall 1996
Turkey
Issue 199
Summer 1996
Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East
Issue 198
Spring 1996
Vulnerabilities in the Gulf
Issue 197
November/December 1995
Tourism and the Business Of Pleasure
Issue 196
September/October 1995
Odds Against Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Crisis of Transition
Issue 194-195
July/August 1995
The Iraq Sanctions Dilemma
Issue 193
March/April 1995
Algeria
Issue 192
January/February 1995
Iran's Revolutionary Impasse
Issue 191
November/December 1994
Gender, Population, Environment
Issue 190
September/October 1994
The Kurdish Experience
Issue 189
July/August 1994
Humanitarian Intervention and North-South Politics in the 90's
Issue 187-188
March/April 1994
After Oslo
Issue 186
January/February 1994
Democrats and Despots
Issue 185
November/December 1993
New Orders
Issue 184
September/October 1993
Political Islam
Issue 183
July/August 1993
Jerusalem and the Peace Agenda
Issue 182
May/June 1993
Radical Movements
Issue 181
March/April 1993
Power, Mass Media and The Middle East
Issue 180
January/February 1993
Islam, the State and Democracy
Issue 179
November/December 1992
1492 + 500
Issue 178
September/October 1992
Arms Race or Arms Control?
Issue 177
July/August 1992
Iraq
Issue 176
May/June 1992
Palestine and Israel in the New Order
Issue 175
March/April 1992
Democracy in the Arab World
Issue 174
January/February 1992
Gender and Politics
Issue 173
November/December 1991
Sudan
Issue 172
September/October 1991
The Day After
Issue 171
July/August 1991
Power, Poverty and Petrodollars
Issue 170
May/June 1991
Crossing the Line
Issue 169
March/April 1991
No Place to Hide
Issue 168
January/February 1991
On the Edge of War
Issue 167
November/December 1990
Food and the Future
Issue 166
September/October 1990
Intifada Year Three
Issue 164-165
May/June 1990
Europe's Other Frontier
Issue 163
March/April 1990
Lebanon's War
Issue 162
January/February 1990
Health and Politics
Issue 161
November/December 1989
Turkey in the Age of Glasnost
Issue 160
September/October 1989
Popular Culture
Issue 159
July/August 1989
Palestine and Israel in the US Arena
Issue 158
May/June 1989
Israel Faces the Uprising
Issue 157
March/April 1989
Iran's Revolution Turns Ten
Issue 156
January/February 1989
The Middle East After Reagan
Issue 155
November/December 1988
The Uprising: The Next Phase
Issue 154
September/October 1988
Islam and the State
Issue 153
July/August 1988
The Uprising
Issue 152
May/June 1988
The Great Powers and the Middle East
Issue 151
March/April 1988
Human Rights and the Palestine Conflict
Issue 150
January/February 1988
Human Rights in the Middle East
Issue 149
November/December 1987
Reflagging the Gulf
Issue 148
September/October 1987
Egypt's Critical Moment
Issue 147
July/August 1987
The June War Twenty Years After
Issue 146
May/June 1987
The Struggle for Food
Issue 145
March/April 1987
Living by the Sword
Issue 144
January/February 1987
Nuclear Shadow Over the Middle East
Issue 143
November/December 1986
Wealth and Power in the Middle East
Issue 142
September/October 1986
Hidden Wars
Issue 141
July/August 1986
Terrorism and Intervention
Issue 140
May/June 1986
Sojourners and Settlers
Issue 139
March/April 1986
Women and Politics
Issue 138
January/February 1986
Marching Toward Civil War
Issue 136-137
October-December 1985
Sudan's Revolutionary Spring
Issue 135-2
September/ October 1985
Asad's Syria
Issue 134-2
July/ August 1985
Lebanon's Shi'as
Issue 133
June 1985
The Future of the Gulf
Issue 132-2
May/ June 1985
The PLO and Jordan
Issue 131
March/ April 1985
The Contest for Arabia
Issue 130
February 1985
Egypt and Israel Today
Issue 129
January 1985
The Deadly Connection
Issue 128
November/ December 1984
Insurrection in North Africa
Issue 127
September/October 1984
The Strange War in the Gulf
Issue 125-126
July-September 1984
Women and Labor Migration
Issue 124
June 1984
Migrant Workers
Issue 123
May 1984
Turkey Under Military Rule
Issue 122
March/April 1984
The Middle East After OPEC
Issue 120
January/February 1984
State Terror in Turkey
Issue 121
January/February 1984
The PLO Split
Issue 119
November/December 1983
Lebanon in Crisis
Issue 118
October 1983
Debt and Development
Issue 117
September 1983
Israel's Strategy of Occupation
Issue 116
July/August 1983
The Palestinian Dilemma
Issue 115
June 1983
Israel Divided
Issue 114
May 1983
Iran Since the Revolution
Issue 113
March/April 1983
The Arms Race in the Middle East
Issue 112
February 1983
Rapid Deployment and Nuclear War
Issue 111
January 1983
Syria's Troubles
Issue 110
November/December 1982
War in Lebanon
Issue 108
September/October 1982
Egypt in the New Middle East
Issue 107
July/August 1982
The Horn of Africa
Issue 106
June 1982
Khomeini and the Opposition
Issue 104
March/April 1982
Islam and Politics
Issue 102
January/February 1982
Special Tenth Anniversary Issue
Issue 100
October-December 1981
Iran: Two Years After
Issue 98
July/August 1981
Dimensions of the Palestine Question
Issue 96
May/June 1981
Origins of the Working Class in the Middle East
Issue 94
January/February 1981
Israel's Uncertain Future
Issue 92
November/December 1980
The Vietnam Syndrome
Issue 90
September/October 1980
Iran's Revolution: The First Year
Issue 88
June 1980
The Left Forces in Iran
Issue 86
March/April 1980
Egypt / Turkey
Issue 84
January 1980
Egypt's Working Women
Issue 82
November/December 1979
After the Treaty
Issue 80
September/October 1979