MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2017) Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). Bashkin, Orit. Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Bayat, Asef. Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Bridge, Gavin and (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Talhami, American Presidents and Jerusalem Jerusalem has been the focus of an increasing number of academic publications in the past several years. Most of these publications focus mainly on the city’s history, identity and changing architectural features since Israel occupied its eastern section after the June 1967 War. Few serious attempts Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud • 3 min read
MER Article What is Prevent? In the spring of 2016, a small group of academics at the University of Cambridge put a motion before Regent House, the governing body of the university, to hold a discussion on the Prevent program—the British government’s counter-radicalization scheme. The scene during the discussion was palpably gr Mezna Qato • 7 min read
MER Article The Aesthetics of Antiterrorism and Its Limits The US-led global war on terrorism in the Middle East is entering a post-ideological phase, in which everyone is allegedly united in the fight against an Islamic pandemic of violence, regardless of religious creed, political persuasion or ideological conviction. Throughout the Islamic world during R Jamil Khader • 24 min read
MER Article Juan Goytisolo For the past 25 years, every evening around sunset, an elderly man could be seen gingerly crossing the Boulevard Pasteur, Tangier’s busy main thoroughfare. Shuffling toward the Grand Poste, he would walk slowly down the pavement to Café Maravillosa. Regulars would stand up to shake his hand. “Marhba Hisham Aïdi • 40 min read
MER Article Managing Security Webs in the Palestinian Refugee Camp of Ain al-Hilweh On May 31, 2017, Fatah commander Col. Bassam al-Saad was juggling three telephones—two mobile phones and one landline—at his office in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, Ain al-Hilweh. As the commander of the Joint Palestinian Security Force (JPSF), the defacto military police of the self-g Erling Lorentzen Sogge • 9 min read
MER Article Morocco's Palestinian Politics You are not in Gaza, this is al-Hoceima!” This title describes a video clip of tear gas in the streets of al-Hoceima, the epicenter of the ongoing protests by the Hirak movement in the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco. [1] Hirak protesters risk their lives demonstrating against corruption Zakia Salime, Paul Silverstein • 9 min read
MER Article The Thorns that Exist and Resist On August 12, 2017, more than 1,200 people gathered in Chicago to bid farewell to Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian-American community organizer facing deportation due to US government efforts to repress struggles for social justice and support for Palestinian freedom. At the gathering, Angela Davis honore Andy Clarno • 15 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 2017) [su_heading align="left"]For Palestine, 2017 is a year of anniversaries. One hundred years since the Balfour Declaration gave imperial imprimatur to the Zionist project. Fifty years since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. And thirty years since the start of The Editors • 4 min read
