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Published: December 12, 2024 18:00

"Cell Phones Behind Bars in Lebanon" -- Chafic Tony Najem examined the use of cell phone videos as a tool of resistance inside the Lebanese prison system for our Fall Issue, Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams. https://buff.ly/4fSBjjU

Published: December 12, 2024 17:00

SUPPORT MERIP: This time of year is crucial for our fundraising, helping us plan to bring you new and exciting analysis in 2025. Please consider a monthly or one-time donation to MERIP today! https://buff.ly/2WcqAIx

Published: December 12, 2024 14:49

Benjamin Schuetze’s article, “The Uneven Politics of Decarbonization in the Middle East and North Africa” has just been published in Arabic by our comrades at Project Zero/Al-sifr! Check it out! اقرأ الان! https://alsifr.org/decarbonization-mena

Published: December 11, 2024 16:00

The Turkish intervention in the Syrian conflict cannot be understood outside of the political economy of the AKP regime in Turkey. @sinemadar.bsky.social's 2020 essay lays out aims to sideline Kurdish forces, and demographically engineer both Syria and…

Published: December 11, 2024 14:00

The Struggle for Syria's Regions (2013): This landmark article by Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur charts how the remarkable survival of the Asad regime has relied on the subtle manipulation of subnational regionality. https://buff.ly/3ZKLuBc

Published: December 10, 2024 21:00

The Political Economy of Erdoğan's Syria Gamble: Turkey’s role in the Syrian conflict has in many ways been a tool for re-sculpting its domestic political economy to benefit the clientelistic regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. As Şahan Savaş Karataşlı details…

Published: December 10, 2024 19:00

Syria Dispatch (From 2017): Samer Abboud laid out the politics of US intervention under the Obama and early Trump administrations. As Trump appears set to inherit a similar situation to eight years ago, Abboud’s analysis remains relevant.…

Published: December 10, 2024 17:00

The Tragedies and Dilemmas of US Intervention in NE Syria -- In 2020, Sean Lee encapsulated the many-sides of the conflict, its ramifications for leftists, and the tragedy of a US-led intervention in the conflict that drove it to a bloody stalemate.…

Published: December 10, 2024 16:40

Our Fall Issue, Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams, covered the work of anti-carceral activism and logic across the Middle East. It's taking on new resonance now as prisons are being opened in Syria following the fall of Bashar Al-Asad.…