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The 2019 uprisings in Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon and Iraq, in addition resurgent protests in Morocco and Jordan—all countries that did not experience revolutionary uprisings in 2011—extend the previous wave of revolt to the rest of the region.  Protestors are no longer content with merely toppling ..

Human suffering is at record levels globally as a result of violent conflicts in some countries and the ravaging effects of neoliberal economic policies and climate change-related disasters in others. The number of refugees and asylum seekers trying to find safety and relief is larger than any t..

This double issue of Middle East Report, “The Latin East,” is a collaboration with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). We publish it in tandem with the current issue of NACLA Report on the Americas, which is available for free online at 


The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) seeks a full-time Executive Director/Editor to lead development of the quarterly magazine Middle East Report and its online presence. Building on MERIP’s nearly 50-year history as the leading independent, progressive print source ..

On December 6, President Trump declared that it is "time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel," and directed the US State Department to begin preparations to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. As Palestinians took to the streets in protest, condemnati..

This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which culminated in the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights, among other transformations of regional politics. The post-1967 occupation and its consequences cont..

Middle East Report
No. 281 (Spring 2017)

ACTIVISM

Many commentators declare that the Arab uprisings of 2011 have ended. But in the eyes of many activists in the region, the uprisings are not over, even if the multitudes have retreated from central sq..

Middle East Report 
No. 280

POLITICS ON THE MOVE

Trump in the White House. Attacks on Christians in Egypt. Continued politicking in Lebanon. Appropriating Palestinian art in Egypt. Electricity in the Gulf. Asylum seekers in Sicily. The politics of Ameri..

Middle East Report
No. 278 (Spring 2016)

LIFE IN EXILE

The Middle East is once again the world’s biggest producer of refugees, due primarily to the catastrophic war in Syria. The region has also long hosted the greatest number of r..

Middle East Report 
No. 277 (Winter 2015)

IRAN’S MANY DEALS

In the wake of the historic bargain over Iran’s nuclear research program, coverage of the Islamic Republic has focused on geopol..

Midway through Barack Obama’s second term as president, there are two Establishment-approved metanarratives about his foreign policy. One, emanating mainly from the right, but resonating with several liberal internationalists, holds that Obama is unequal to the task of running an empire. The pre..

FUEL AND WATER: THE COMING CRISES

Demand for fuel and water in the Middle East is rapidly increasing. Populations are growing, as are expectations of middle-class levels of consumption. Supplies of fuel and water are finite, however, and renewable water reserves are dwindl..

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GENDER FRONT LINES

How is gender related to revolution? What is the connection between gender and women or, for that matter, between gender and women and men? These questions are posed in dramatic fashion by the Arab revolts, as well as other mass movements, in the second ..

“The Iraq war is largely about oil,” wrote Alan Greenspan in his memoir The Age of Turbulence(2007). “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows.” It may indeed be self-evident that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, as the former Feder..