Exchanges of fire between the Houthis and their domestic opponents – as well as between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia – have rekindled hostilities in Yemen and adjacent waters. The chances of containme...

Playwright Lekaa Sharaf speaks with anthropologist Maria Kastrinou about theater in the Golan and the art of listening amid ongoing occupation and genocide.

Settlers have been besieging a Palestinian family for 10 days in an effort to seize their home. The army’s unwillingness to stop them tells the whole story.

Political analysts have been debating the consequences of the US war on Iran, which began on 28 February 2026, the agreement that followed, its subsequent collapse, and the resumption of military oper...

It Could Happen Here · Episode

For a long time I’ve been thinking about doing a series about the concept of a “hierarchy of finance”. This phrase refers to the fact that different households and institutions have access to financin...

The Arab monarchies turn to Silicon Valley

“She’d had a normal birth and what looked like a normal early infancy.”

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens,...

That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be asked...

Author Julia Elyachar will be joined in conversation by colleague Aamer Ibraheem to discuss her new book, "On the Semicivilized," a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—soverei...

Abstract. Starting with items on display at the Hall of Asian Peoples in the American Museum of Natural History, this essay tells the story of an expedition to Greater Syria (including today's Israel/...

Today on the podcast three MERIP contributors discuss Lebanon’s tenuous, one-sided ceasefire with Israel. Even as officials in the Lebanese government have entered into negotiations with Israel, an un...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands irresistible.

Bicycle couriers are key contributors to urban food delivery platforms. This article outlines the multiple and uneven ways in which delivery riders are “put to work” in the platform economy. Using the...

The Ottoman Empire long used flexible administrative arrangements to govern its vast domains. Starting in the 1830s, however, European intervention in Ottoma... | CUP

This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.Saeed is the com...

By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point…