Narratives of ‘the Oppressed’—The Dialectic of Resistance Behind the Axis
ince its formation, the Axis of Resistance has embodied a defiant stance against imperialism and Zionism. The phrase itself first circulated in the English-language media, in the early 2000s—a response...
View ArticleArtificial Humanitarianism—The Data-Driven Future of Refugee Responses
n Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp, to pay for food at one of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s distribution centers, Syrian refugees must lean into an iris scanner that registers their […] The post...
View ArticleBreaking the Fourth Wall—Reading Sadallah Wannous in a Time of Genocide
Robert Myers and Nada Saab, Sentence to Hope: A Sa’dallah Wannous Reader, Yale University Press, 2019. At the end of Sadallah Wannous’ 1970 play, The Adventures of the Mamlouk Jabir’s […] The post...
View ArticleSyria’s New Men
Gender and the post-Asad political order. The post Syria’s New Men appeared first on MERIP.
View ArticleDeportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the...
A special report. The post Deportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the United States appeared first on MERIP.
View ArticleIsrael’s War on Reproduction in Gaza
Hala Shoman reports on reprocide as a tactic of eliminationist violence. The post Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza appeared first on MERIP.
View ArticleIssue 314 (Spring 2025) Masthead
Middle East Report, “New Gender Frontlines,” Spring 2025, No. 314, Vol. 54 No. 1 Executive Director James Ryan jamesryan@merip.org Executive Editor Katie Natanel katienatanel@merip.org Managing...
View ArticleGender, Politics and Scholarship—A Roundtable
n March 3, 2025, MERIP and the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies partnered with Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies to host a roundtable on […] The...
View ArticleIsrael’s War on Reproduction in Gaza
On reprocide as a tactic of eliminationist violence. The post Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza appeared first on MERIP.
View ArticleShifting Feminist Narratives in Sudan—A Conversation with Raga Makawi
Women and the gender dynamics behind Sudan's revolution and war. The post Shifting Feminist Narratives in Sudan—A Conversation with Raga Makawi appeared first on MERIP.
View ArticleSyria’s New Men
Masculinity and the post-Asad political order. The post Syria’s New Men appeared first on MERIP.
View ArticleWomen and Politics in Post-Jina Iran
The past and present of Woman, Life, Freedom. Featuring an update from Iranian civil society on Israel’s expanding war. The post Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran appeared first on MERIP.
View ArticleCourts of Exclusion—Working-Class Masculinity and Anti-Afghan Racism in Iran
n 2016, Gol Agha, a ball boy and worker at a private tennis club in Tajrish—an affluent neighborhood in northern Tehran—went to an administrative office in Karaj to receive a […] The post Courts of...
View ArticleUnpacking the Gender ‘Paradox’ Behind Arab Women in Tech
ompared to women in the United States and most European countries, Arab women are highly represented in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related computing fields. In fact, six of […]...
View ArticleDeportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the...
t dawn on December 9, 2024, hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered at Turkey’s Cilvegözü and Öncüpınar border crossings into northern Syria to return home following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s […] The...
View ArticleSami Zubaida
ami Zubaida, an exceptional scholar of Middle Eastern political sociology, law and culinary culture, passed away in London on April 6, 2025. Born to an Iraqi Jewish family, Sami left […] The post Sami...
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