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Today on the MERIP Podcast James Ryan talks with Arran Walshe, a journalist and researcher based in Amman. Walshe is the author of “Alternative Amman–Making Counterculture in the Jordanian Capital,” which appeared in our sum...

MERIP is proud to co-sponsor a conversation with Mahmoud Khalil and poet Leena Jawdat live in Philadelphia on September 25th. This event is co-organized by CAIR-Philadelphia and Mavey Books and celebrates the rele...

Dear Friends and Comrades,

We’re thrilled to share Issue 319 of Middle East Report, “Art at Work–People, Power and Cultural Production.” Across the region today, art is being made, redefined and reimagined under extreme conditions of war, political upheaval and the interp...

The September 11 terror attacks occurred 25 years ago. Yet there has been no justice for the 2,977 people killed on that day, or for the five Guantánamo detainees the US government accuses of responsibility for this crime. The 9/11 case in the military commissions system, which started in 2008 and restarted in 2012, has not moved past the pre-trial phase. Rather than closure ...

Dear Friends and Comrades,

If you spend any time on social media, you’ve seen the uncannily rendered videos and memes known colloquially as AI slop, crudely generated videos playing on stereotypes meant to generate viral outrage. In our upcoming summer issue of Middle East Report, Nermin Elsherif looks at the consumption and production of these kitschy and prov...