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And check out the MERIP Roundtable from earlier this week with Asma Abdi, Kaveh Ehsani and Maziyar Ghiabi on the regional and geopolitical aspects of the protests!
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Governing Crisis β Sanctions, Austerity and Social Unrest in Iran
Recent protests triggered by currency collapse and price shocks expose how sanctions have reconfigured state power, enabling austerity and insider accumulation rather than relief.
NEW: Governing Crisis--Sanctions, Austerity and Social Unrest in Iran
Sociologist Ida Nikou analyzes how the relationship between the sanctions regime and austerity politics in Iran has fueled the recent protest wave.
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The MERIP Podcast Episode 14: The MERIP Roundtable, On Iran's Protests
In this installment of the MERIP Roundtable podcast, we discuss the latest wave of protests in Iran. The protests began on December 28, 2025, as merchants and bazaar workers reacted negatively to newβ¦
NEW PODCAST: Another installment of the MERIP Roundtable featuring a discussion of Iran's recent wave of protests, the regional political dilemma's Iran faces and thorny diaspora politics. Executive Director, James Ryan, is joined by Asma Abdi, Kaveh Ehsani and Maziyar Ghiabi.
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Check out Adnan Khanβs conversation with Turkey Book Talk and read his reporting with us π
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Among the gems in here are Fred Halladayβs interviews with Fedayi and Mojahedin leftist guerillas in the midst of the revolution in 1978.
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Bringing back this piece I authored for @merip.bsky.social last month as Gabes protestors have now brought their case against the polluting Tunisian Chemical Group to court.
The hearing on the case has been postponed to Jan. 22
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Iran - Middle East Research and Information Project
You're all caught up.
As Iran witnesses another striking wave of protests, you can read all of our Iran coverage at this tag on our website, going back 54 years and including our coverage of the 1978-9 revolution.
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Dick Cheney Dead
An Archival Remix on the Neoconservative Legacy
I did not get much writing out this year that wasnβt related to @merip.bsky.social β something Iβm dedicated to changing in 2026 β but my favorite newsletter I wrote this year was definitely this one. www.merip.org/2025/11/dick...
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Friends and Comrades β the absolute best thing about MERIP is that it is a reader supported organization. The large majority of our work is done by volunteers and part-time staff supported by small donations from loyal readers. We have done so much this year, help us keep it up in 2026!
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SUPPORT MERIP'S CRITICAL WORK BY DONATING For 50 years, MERIP has published critical analysis of Middle Eastern politics, history, and social justice not available in other publications. Our articlesβ¦
Weβve accomplished a lot in 2025! Three great issues, launched a podcast and redesigned our website! We did it all with your support β please consider making a donation before the year is out!
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"...many of the same companies at the forefront of digital humanitarianism are implicated in digitized warfare and other forms of surveillance and violence."
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And the second is with Ned Leadbeater on the politics of fiber optic cables in the Red Sea.
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The MERIP Podcast Episode Ten: Raouf Farrah
On the Sumud Convoy, the Gaza Flotilla, and North African Solidarity
We've released two podcasts featuring authors from our latest issue, Material Politics of Normalization. The first with Raouf Farrah discusses his experience on the Global Sumud Convoy.
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For "In the Archive" a special series focused on MERIP's history we interviewed noted Palestinian historian Beshara Doumani about his 1988 article about the First Intifada, "Abu Farid's House." buff.ly/UlFZ5fD
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The interview is a follow up to her piece from January. You can read it here.
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Our most-listened podcast so far this year is our interview with Yemen expert Helen Lackner on the role of the Houthis in the war in Gaza.
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The MERIP Podcast Episode 6: The MERIP Roundtable, "On Recognition"
The MERIP Roundtable is a new format for the MERIP podcast featuring conversation on urgent issues in the Middle East with members of MERIP's Editorial Committee. The theme of this episode'sβ¦
Our first editors roundtable episode covered the growing recognition of Israel's genocide in Gaza in the popular press, and the advance of the movement to recognize Palestinian statehood. The conversation featured MERIP Edcomm members Lisa Hajjar, Sean Yom and Jacob Mundy.
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Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
PhD candidate in Polisci @ Geneva Graduate Institute | Interest in rural conflict, women's movements, Tunisian politics, research methods.
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environmental and political anthropologist
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies is the central forum for study and research of Islam and Islamicate societies and communities at Stanford University.
Professor, Middle East History, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Gulf, Rutgers University, Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
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Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Socially conscious cyborg with a data body. Digital artist, author, programmer, and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara
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Anthropologist, author of Sacrificial Limbs
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Nonprofit in Washington, D.C. educating the U.S. public & policymakers on Palestine and supporting Palestinian liberation through education, culture, arts, & advocacy. https://thejerusalemfund.org/
Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies, King's College London, Department of War Studies. https://www.reinoudleenders.org All views expressed are my own.
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Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
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LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
