India, Israel and the Coordination of Control

How Modi is weaponizing the 'Israeli Experience' to target dissent.

Abdulla Moaswes • 14 min read

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India, Israel and the Coordination of Control

How India weaponizes the 'Israeli Experience' to target dissent.

Abdulla Moaswes • 14 min read

MER Article

Who is “Indian” in the Gulf? Race, Labor and Citizenship

How do race and racism operate in the Gulf? Neha Vora and Amélie Le Renard closely examine how the term "Indian," as it is used in the United Arab Emirates, refers to much more than national origin. They trace the role of colonialism, capitalism and the state in creating "Indian" as a racialized cat

Neha Vora, Amélie Le Renard • 11 min read

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Who is “Indian” in the Gulf? Race, Labor and Citizenship

How do race and racism operate in the Gulf? Neha Vora and Amélie Le Renard closely examine how the term "Indian," as it is used in the United Arab Emirates, refers to much more than national origin. They trace the role of colonialism, capitalism and the state in creating "Indian" as a racialized cat

Neha Vora, Amélie Le Renard • 11 min read

Covid-19 Coverage

No Good Options for Migrant Workers in Gulf COVID-19 Lockdown

Andrea Wright talks to South Asian migrant workers in the Gulf to find out how the pandemic is affecting their lives. They explain that if they stay in the Gulf, they risk abandonment by their employers and coronavirus infection from cramped living conditions. If they return to India under lockdown,

Andrea Wright • 12 min read

Current Analysis

China's New Silk Road Strategy

In the current issue [http://www.merip.org/mer/latest] of Middle East Report, we write about the strategic logic of China’s increasing investment in teaching Middle Eastern languages [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer270/chinas-strategic-middle-eastern-languages], particularly Arabic, Persian and Turkish

I-wei Jennifer Chang, Haiyun Ma • 3 min read

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Region, Race and Some Ironies of History

In the forthcoming issue [http://www.merip.org/mer/latest] of Middle East Report, “China in the Middle East,” I write about the often forgotten history [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer270/changing-modes-political-dialogue-across-middle-east-east-asia-1880-2010] of political, intellectual and cultural t

Cemil Aydin • 3 min read

MER Article

Why India and Israel Were Not Friends, 1948-1991

P. R. Kumaraswamy, India’s Israel Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

Vijay Prashad • 4 min read

MER Article

The Afghan Triangle

The Pakistani army’s operation in the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan is the most sustained in five years of selective counterinsurgency against the local Taliban. The toll already is immense: 1.9 million internally displaced, including tens of thousands housed in tents on parched plains; 15,000 s

Graham Usher • 13 min read

Current Analysis

Dangerous Liaisons

The day after Christmas, the wires buzzed with reports that Pakistan was moving 20,000 troops from its western border with Afghanistan to locations near the eastern border with India. The redeployment, said Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Qureshi, came in response to “certain developments” on the In

Graham Usher • 11 min read

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Musharraf's Opening to Israel

When George W. Bush arrives in Islamabad on March 4, 2006, his will be the first visit to Pakistan by a US president since Bill Clinton touched down there in March 2000. Aside from the coincidence of the month, the circumstances could hardly be more different. In 2000, Clinton stayed for barely five

Graham Usher • 11 min read

MER Article

Lucknow Dispatch

“The saviors of religion [in Kashmir] ordered all Muslim women to adopt the hijab by September 10, 2001. Women did because they did not want acid to be thrown in their faces.... When Roop Kanwar became a Sati with her husband, the event was glorified by the guardians of Hinduism. When it comes to wo

Shalini Mathur, Richa Nagar • 5 min read