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MERIP AT 50

In this issue, we reflect on MERIP’s 50-year history of speaking truth to power
and evaluate its continuing legacy. We are proud that a scrappy monthly
newsletter written by and for activists not only endured, but evolved into
Middle East Report, a unique source of news and analysis that features essays
informed by rigorous scholarship and detailed field research while remaining
committed to a progressive political mission. In its early decades, MERIP
provided an important outlet for voices and perspectives marginalized in the
academy and mainstream media, including those of scholars, activists and
political figures from the region. Launched as MERIP Reports, this
first-of-its-kind publication on the Middle East played a critical role in
transforming Americans’ knowledge of the region by advancing a critical
political economy approach, documenting popular struggles and articulating
opposition to the foreign policies of the United States and its regional allies.
The issue surveys and reflects on aspects of MERIP coverage across a range of
topics including labor, Palestine, the War on Terror, the Lebanese civil war,
the Iranian revolution, women and gender, Arab Americans, culture and poetry.
These mini essays offer a guided tour across the MERIP landscape, facilitated by
links to related articles, most housed on MERIP’s open access website.

Issue Editors: Waleed Hazbun, Najib Hourani and Lisa Hajjar with Guest Editor
Chris Toensing

 

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CURRENT ANALYSIS



POPULIST PASSIONS OR DEMOCRATIC ASPIRATIONS? TUNISIA’S LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN
CRISIS

Robert P. Parks, Tarek Kahlaoui 10.26.2021

Tunisia’s political system is in crisis after President Kais Saied concentrated
power in his office in July 2021. Robert P. Parks and Tarek Kahlaoui delve into
the reasons why so many citizens support his moves and explain why they have
become so disenchanted with Tunisia’s democratic system. The authors find that
the governments’ emphasis on the electoral process and political theater over
solving socio-economic problems and giving voice to the people are crushing the
aspirations of the 2011 revolution.


CAPTURING THE COMPLEXITY OF LEBANON’S CIVIL WAR AND ITS LEGACIES

Najib Hourani 10.6.2021

The current political and economic crises in Lebanon reveal the myriad ways that
the Lebanese continue to deal with the effects of the 1975–1990 civil war. Najib
Hourani explores MERIP’s deep coverage of Lebanon since the early 1970s. He
finds that “MERIP’s commitment to foregrounding local social struggles and their
links to the global political economy, along with a sensitivity to historical
context, has provided a powerful antidote to mainstream reporting and analysis.”
Forthcoming in the Fall 2021 issue “MERIP at 50.”


UNDERSTANDING THE DIVERSITY OF POLITICAL ISLAM

Francesco Cavatorta 09.21.2021

Francesco Cavatorta examines MERIP’s 50 years of covering the complex phenomenon
of political Islam and finds that much of it is based on field research,
participant observation, interviews and ethnography. The result has been a rich
diversity of approaches that comprehend the plural nature of Islamism, directly
engage the words and deeds of Islamists and provide insights that prepare
readers to understand real-world events. Forthcoming in the Fall 2021 issue
“MERIP at 50.”


COVERING SURVEILLANCE, STRUGGLES AND SOLIDARITY IN THE ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITY

Pamela Pennock 09.14.2021

Although issues of domestic surveillance and discrimination faced by Arabs
living in the United States became more prominent after the attacks of September
11, 2001, MERIP has been covering them continuously since the organization was
founded 50 years ago. Pamela Pennock surveys how MERIP has written about issues
of surveillance, struggles for justice and solidarity in the Arab American
community. Forthcoming in the Fall 2021 issue “MERIP at 50.”


REFUSING IMPERIAL AMNESIA IN THE WAR ON TERROR

Darryl Li 09.7.2021

Twenty years after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the US invasion of
Afghanistan, Darryl Li surveys how MERIP’s deep and insightful coverage of the
resulting War on Terror countered the “willful amnesia of American nationalism
with a rigorous insistence on illuminating the historical continuities of
imperial violence.” This essay is the first in a series reflecting on MERIP’s
hard-hitting coverage of a wide range of topics since 1971, forthcoming in the
Fall 2021 issue “MERIP at 50.”


LABOR ORGANIZING ON THE RISE AMONG IRANIAN OIL WORKERS

Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Peyman Jafari, Mehdi Hoseini, Saber Khani 08.25.2021

Oil workers in Iran have been striking since June 19, 2021, leading some
observers to ask whether protests are becoming routine within the existing
political system or are a prelude to a bigger uprising. The authors explain what
makes these strikes remarkable, why Iran’s neoliberal policies pushed workers to
organize and how the state and society are reacting.

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PALESTINE, ISRAEL AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

One of MERIP’s signature issues over the years has been the question of
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict—partly because of its intrinsic interest
but largely because so much myth and cant clouds the mainstream media coverage
of this subject that independent analysis is particularly necessary. This primer
by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar is a good place to start in understanding what is
at stake as events unfold.
(Photo of Israeli separation barrier by Alfonso Moral.)

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