Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

This bibliography collates the rich body of writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge (scholarly and otherwise) produced about Palestinian foodways — broadly conceived to include agri...

Women and the gender dynamics behind Sudan's revolution and war.

My book Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato is now available to preorder. For each book ordered and each library request reported here between now and the book’s publi…

The 2025 DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival program is LIVE!

n 2016, Gol Agha, a ball boy and worker at a private tennis club in Tajrish—an affluent neighborhood in northern Tehran—went to an administrative office in Karaj to receive a […]

Much of the history of the tomato in Egypt — the subject of Nile Nightshade, my forthcoming book — is oriented north and east. The tomato linked Turkey and Egypt through Ottoman cuisine’s embrace o…

Rabab Elnaiem is a Sudanese activist, labor organizer and former spokesperson for an alliance of labor unions, currently based in the United States. On April 2, 2024, she spoke to MERIP’s managing edi...

As Israel’s ground operation in Gaza nears its close, the next major struggle is coming into view. The battle over the provision of essential humanitarian aid, already so brutal over the past few mont...

In light of his passing, a guide to MERIP founder, Joe Stork's contributions to the publication.

In less than one month, Israel has dropped more than 10,000 munitions on Gaza city alone, demolishing the urban landscape and killing over 9,000 civilians. Given the sheer scale of violence and its le...

What does the increasingly transnational scale of repression mean for journalists and activists in the Middle East and North Africa and in diaspora? How do individuals and collectives give voice and v...

What does the increasingly transnational scale of repression mean for journalists and activists in the Middle East and North Africa and in diaspora? How do individuals and collectives give voice and v...

n Spring 2011, as the uprising against Bashar Al-Assad erupted in Syria, Sana, the daughter of Syrian exiles living in Canada, began engaging in online activism. Her support for the revolution rapidly...

What does the increasingly transnational scale of repression mean for journalists and activists in the Middle East and North Africa and in diaspora? How do individuals and collectives give voice and v...

Ghraybeh aka "Little Wondrous Thing": What does a perfect shortbread cookie have to do with women's history in the Arabic-speaking world?