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
MER Article Khalili, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine Laleh Khalili, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Rosemary Sayigh • 4 min read
MER Article Massad, Desiring Arabs Joseph Massad, Desiring Arabs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Khaled El-Rouayheb • 3 min read
MER Article Paradise Lost, Gone Shopping Shahram Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). Norma Claire Moruzzi • 6 min read
MER Article After the War Spring in Algeria was unseasonably wintry. After all the rain and snow, the city parks of Algiers were a profusion of color and birdsong in the summertime, the countryside a vibrant shade of green. Wildflowers surrounded the parking enclosure at the busy new international airport. “Things are coming along,” says James McDougall • 23 min read
MER Article Young Brothers in Cyberspace In September 2007, the Society of Muslim Brothers, Egypt’s largest organized political force, released a draft political party platform to a select group of around 50 Egyptian intellectuals. The response was scathing. Planks such as those advocating formation of a “higher council” of religious scholars with what looked like Marc Lynch • 24 min read
MER Article Soccer Fandom and Citizenship in Israel Since 2003, when Ittihad Abna’ Sakhnin (in Hebrew, Ihud Bnei Sakhnin, or Sons of Sakhnin United) climbed up to the Israeli premier soccer league, its showdowns with Beitar Jerusalem, a team historically identified with the Israeli right, have been the biggest media attraction, and the biggest headache for the police, Tamir Sorek • 13 min read
MER Article Sanctioned Pleasures Beirut is known internationally for a youthful jet set that likes to be identified with the world clubbing circuit, including such stops as B018, an underground nocturnal haunt reminiscent of a coffin built by Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury upon the remains of a war crime. Lara Deeb, Mona Harb • 23 min read
MER Article Imagined Youths Youth -- what is it? The notion tends to be taken for granted, as a natural stage in human development. But, in fact, “youth” is a socially and culturally determined category, a transitional phase between childhood and adulthood that, in its contemporary form, is a product of modernity. In the Ted Swedenburg • 15 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Winter 2007) Some good news, for a change: The excruciating ordeal of the Los Angeles Eight is finally over. On October 30, federal prosecutors gave up on their efforts to deport Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, the last of the seven Palestinians and one Kenyan arrested in 1987 on patently silly anti-terrorism The Editors • 4 min read
