Authors

Mimi Kirk

Mimi Kirk is Editor for the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic and Middle East Report. She is editor, with Chris Toensing, of Uncovering Iraq: Trajectories of Disintegration and Transformation (2010) and, with Rochelle Davis, of the forthcoming Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-first Century.

ARTICLES BY Mimi Kirk

  • "The Jews of Our Time?": Israel's Deportation of the South Sudanese

    "The Jews of Our Time?": Israel's Deportation of the South Sudanese

    Planeloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks. Many of them had been living in the poor neighborhoods of Hatikva and Shapira in southern Tel Aviv, working in such jobs as hotel chambermaids or waiters. Israel has just..

  • Memoir and Mythology

    Memoir and Mythology

    Facts aren’t the only thing that should be checked in Three Cups of Tea

    The recent uproar over Greg Mortenson’s immensely popular nonfiction book Three Cups of Tea: One Man`s Mission To Promote Peace... One School at..