MER Article

Gaza Is a Crime Scene

Understanding Israel's war crimes and the case for genocide.

Lisa Hajjar • 14 min read

MER Article

Rethinking Whiteness in Turkey Through the AKP’s Foreign Policy in Africa South of the Sahara

There is a new investment in whiteness in contemporary Turkey, and it is not by those who have traditionally been identified as “White Turks,” but by their long-standing critics, the so-called Black Turks.

Ezgi Güner • 11 min read

Current Analysis

Moving Beyond the Apartheid Analogy in Palestine and South Africa

The Trump administration's "Deal of the Century" for peace between Israel and Palestine is being compared to South African apartheid. Palestinians are questioning the usefulness of this analogy.

Loubna Qutami • 15 min read

Khartoum's Greatest Challenge

Colonel John Garang’s Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) played no direct role in the April 6 coup in Khartoum. But as the only organized, fighting resistance to the regime of Ja‘far Numairi, it laid the groundwork by chipping away at the state in a guerrilla campaign that cost the government

A Special Correspondent • 11 min read

MER Article

From the Editors

Events elsewhere in the world -- elections in Nicaragua, death squads in South Africa and recent decisions by the European Commission -- hold much instruction for people concerned with the Middle East. Elections, after all, are not the same as democracy. After ten years of US armed intervention and

The Editors • 4 min read

MER Article

Khartoum's Greatest Challenge

Colonel John Garang’s Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) played no direct role in the April 6 coup in Khartoum. But as the only organized, fighting resistance to the regime of Ja‘far Numairi, it laid the groundwork by chipping away at the state in a guerrilla campaign that cost the government

A Special Correspondent • 11 min read

MER Article

Adams, Israel and South Africa

James Adams, Israel and South Africa: The Unnatural Alliance (London: Quartet Books/Namara, 1985). James Adams, a senior executive at the Sunday Times of London, scores an overwhelming victory in undermining the thesis of his own title. After even a few pages, his book convinces us, albeit unintent

Tim Frasca • 2 min read