MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2002) Abdo, Nahla and Ronit Lentin, eds. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002). Amin, Camron M. The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy and Popular Culture, 1865-1946 (Gainesville, (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article The Post-September 11 Arab Wave in World Music Music from the Arab world has traditionally been a minor player within world music, the marketing category encompassing a wide variety of international music that emerged in the late 1980s. Aimed at an NPR listening “adult” audience, world music has a small market share of roughly 2-3 percent (compa Ted Swedenburg • 12 min read
MER Article Jihadis in the Hood In his classic novel Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed satirizes white America's age-old anxiety about the "infectiousness" of black culture with "Jus Grew," an indefinable, irresistible carrier of "soul" and "blackness" that spreads like a virus contaminating everyone in its wake Hisham Aïdi • 24 min read
MER Article A Part of US or Apart from US? Is the American public willing to accept suspended freedoms, if not for everyone, then for a select few disfavored groups, such as Muslims and Arab-Americans? Much press reporting has said yes, but a survey conducted directly after the September 11 attacks says no. Kathleen Moore • 8 min read
MER Article American Justice, Ashcroft-Style The Bush administration's large-scale detentions of Arab and Muslim men -- without charge -- and draconian immigration restrictions are only two of its initiatives to erode civil liberties, civil rights and norms of procedural justice under cover of the "war on terrorism." Many initiatives were enab Keith Feldman • 6 min read
MER Article No Longer Invisible Unlike other ascribed and self-described "people of color" in the United States, Arabs are often hidden under the Caucasian label, if not forgotten altogether. But eleven months after September 11, 2001, the Arab-American is no longer invisible. Whether traveling, driving, working, walking through a Louise Cainkar • 16 min read
MER Article Arabs, Race and the Post-September 11 National Security State In the face of a post-September 11 wave of racially motivated attacks against people from the Middle East and South Asia, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced in a September 13, 2001 press release that "any threats of violence or discrimination against Arab or Muslim Americans or Salah Hassan • 14 min read
MER Article Solidarity in the Time of Anti-Normalization The 1979 Camp David peace treaty may have brought an end to formal hostilities between Egypt and Israel, but their peace is a cold one. Moreover, there has always been a wide gap between how this treaty shapes Egyptian foreign policy and popular Egyptian sentiment toward Israel. Since Camp David, Eg Elliott Colla • 16 min read
MER Article The Costs of Chaos in Palestine Israel has launched a comprehensive war of attrition in the Occupied Territories, whose objective is a decisive military victory leading to prolonged interim arrangements dictated by Israel. Facing these overwhelming odds, the Palestinians remain plagued by a crisis of leadership that has already ex Mouin Rabbani • 11 min read
MER Article Washington Makes Its Case for War After months of internal debate within the Bush administration -- and in the media -- over how the United States intends to remove Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq, the focus of deliberations has shifted. As military action appears more imminent, serious questions are suddenly being raised about the Raad Alkadiri, Fareed Mohamedi • 10 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Fall 2002) As this issue went to press, official Washington awaited George W. Bush's September 12 address to the United Nations, in which he was expected to end months of speculation over whether, and how, the US will act to produce "regime change" in Iraq. Despite White House The Editors • 2 min read
