Editorial
Committee Members
Lori Allen
Lori
Allen is the Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke
Center at Brown University for 2005 -2006. She received her PhD
in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her work focuses
on Palestine, human rights and the politics of suffering. Her dissertation
is an ethnography of the second intifada, titled
"Suffering through a National Uprising: The Cultural Politics
of Violence, Victimization and Human Rights in Palestine."
Her next project will focus on the history of human rights in
Palestinian nationalism and the development of a global politics
of suffering and human rights that emerged in response to World
War II and the Holocaust. She is the author of "Pain,
Touch, Pressure, Temperature: Rula Halawani's Intimacies of Occupation,"
2005, Arte East Virtual Gallery and "Academics and the Government in 'The New American Century:'
A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi," co-authored with Lara
Deeb and Jessica Winegar (Radical History Review 93,
2005).
"Grinding
Palestine to Powder," TomPaine.com (October
18, 2006)
"Uncertainty and Disquiet Mark
Intifada's Third Anniversary," Middle East Report
Online (October 8, 2003)
"Palestinians
Debate 'Polite' Resistance," Middle East Report
225 (Winter 2002)
Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon is an Iraq-born poet, novelist and filmmaker. He
left Iraq in 1991 and holds degrees from Baghdad and Georgetown
and is a PhD candidate in Arabic literature at Harvard and currently
teaching at the Gallatin School of New York University. He has
published poems and essays in both Arabic and English in The Nation, Middle
East Report, al-Ahram Weekly and many others. He co-directed
and co-produced the film "About
Baghdad"
documenting the lives of Iraqis after the 2003 invasion. Antoon
returned to Iraq in July 2003 to shoot the film. Antoon's poetry
was anthologized in Iraqi Poetry Today. He is a contributing
editor to the London-based journal Banipal.
"Of Bridges and Birds,"
Al-Ahram Weekly, 17 – 23 April 2003
"Democracy and Necrology,"
Al-Ahram Weekly, 27 January - 2 February 2005
Seven
Poems by Sinan Antoon, 2003
Kamran
Asdar Ali
Kamran
Asdar Ali teaches anthropology and Middle East studies at the
University of Texas, Austin. Ali earned his Ph.D in anthropology
at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Planning the
Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (University of Texas
Press, 2002). He works on issues of health and gender in the Middle
East within a political, economic and historical framework. In
recent years he has started research projects in Pakistan that
deal with labor issues, popular culture and new social movements,
with an emerging interest in Muslim movements such as the Tablighi
Jamaat.
“Pakistan’s Dilemma,” Middle
East Report Online (September 19, 2001)
“The Band Played On: Continued
Military Rule in Pakistan,” Middle East Report Online (May
9, 2002)
Asli
Bali
Asli
Bali is the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow at Yale Law School. As an
attorney in private practice in New York, she has worked on a
variety of civil and human rights issues within the international
community and participated in the World Tribunal on Iraq in 2004
on the subject of possible war crimes committed by US soldiers
against Iraqis. She received a J.D. degree from the Yale University
Law School in 1999, an M.P.A degree with honors from the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
in 1999, an M.Phil degree with distinction from Cambridge University
in 1995 and is a PhD candidate in the department of politics at
Princeton University.
"The US and Iranian Nuclear
Impasse," Middle East Report 241, Winter 2006
Bali and Richard Falk, "International
Law at the Vanishing Point," Middle East Report
241, Winter 2006
Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi is an associate professor of English at Brooklyn
College of the City University of New York. He is coeditor of The
Edward Said Reader (Vintage, 2000) and has also published
essays in Transition, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Souls, Arab
Studies Quarterly, Interventions, Amerasia, The
Village Voice, the London Review of Books and others.
As a regular columnist for the Progressive Media Project, he
has written op-eds that have appeared in dozens of newspapers,
both nationally and internationally. His research interests include
the history and practice of African-American Islam, Muslim migrations
and French politics, American studies and the politics of the
Middle East, and the intersections between postcolonial, ethnic
and area studies. Currently he is working on a project about
Arab-Americans in Brooklyn, New York.
"Our Work is of
This World," Amerasia Journal, 2005
"Diary," London Review
of Books, May 5, 2005
"Fingerprinting program unfair, alienating," Progressive
Media Project, January 8, 2004
"East of the Sun (West of the
Moon): The Harmonic History of Islam Among Asian and African Americans,"
a lecture by Prof. Moustafa Bayoumi, 5-16-02
Robert Blecher
Robert
Blecher is a fellow at the Center for Human Rights at the University
of Iowa. His current project is a history of partition in Palestine
and Israel. He regularly works as a consultant with a variety
of international organizations in the Middle East, including International
Crisis Group and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
"'Free People
Will Set the Course of History': Intellectuals, Democracy and
American Empire," Middle East Report Online,
March 2003
"Living
on the Edge: The Threat of 'Transfer' in Israel and Palestine," Middle
East Report 225, Winter 2002
Louise
Cainkar
Louise
Cainkar is a senior research fellow at the University of Illinois-Chicago,
Great Cities Institute. She is a sociologist and ethnographer.
She received her PhD at Northwestern University, where her mentors
were Janet and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and Howard Becker. Her research
focuses on Arabs and Muslims in diaspora, especially in the United
States. She is currently writing a book on the Arab and Muslim
experience in the US after 9/11, tentatively titled Homeland Insecurity
(Russell Sage Press). In addition, she is conducting a study of
Islamic revival among second-generation Muslim Americans. In partnership
with the staff of the Arab American Action Network she is conducting
a study of domestic violence intervention. Her recent publications
include "The Impact of 9/11 on Muslims and Arabs in the United
States," in John Tirman, ed., The Maze of Fear: Security
& Migration After September 11th (New York: The New Press,
Spring, 2004); “Global Impacts of 9/11,” special issue
of Journal of Comparative Studies of Africa, Asia, and the Middle
East; "Migration as a Method of Coping with Turbulence among
Palestinians," Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Special
Issue on the Middle East (Winter 2004); and "A Fervor for
Muslims: Special Registration," Journal of Islamic Law and
Culture 7, no. 2 (2003). She is also on the Board of Directors
of Chicago’s Arab American Action Network and Southwest
Women Working Together.
"The
Impact of 9/11 Attacks and Their Aftermath on Muslims and Arabs
in the United States," in John Tirman, ed., The Maze
of Fear: Security & Migration After September 11th (New York:
The New Press, Spring, 2004)
"Strategies
for What Matters Most: Assessing the Need, Addressing the Problem:
Working with Disadvantaged Muslim Immigrant Families and Communities"
a report for the Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore: Annie E.
Casey Foundation, 2004)
“Targeting
Muslims, at Ashcroft’s Discretion” Middle East
Report Online (March 14, 2003)
“No
Longer Invisible: Arab and Muslim Exclusion After September 11,”
Middle East Report (Fall 2002)
Sheila
Carapico
Sheila
Carapico is professor of political science at the University of
Richmond, where she teaches international relations. A long-time
member of the editorial board of Middle East Report,
Carapico currently also serves on the Committee For Academic
Freedom in the Middle East of the Middle East Studies Association. She
is the author of Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy
of Activism in Modern Arabia (Cambridge University Press,
1998) and numerous articles on Yemeni politics and society. Carapico
has been a consultant to a number of intergovernmental and nongovernmental
organizations regarding development and human rights issues. Her
current research is a critical examination of Western and international
programs designed to promote democracy and civil society in the
Arab world. She has also written on security issues in the Gulf.
“Legalism
and Realism in the Gulf,” Middle East Report (Spring
1998)
“Arcs of Crises: Background
to the Failure of US Policies in the Middle East,” Middle
East Report (Winter 1998)
“NGOs, INGOs, GO-NGOs
and DO-NGOs: Making Sense of Non-Governmental Organizations,”
Middle East Report (Spring 2000)
“How Yemen's Ruling Party Secured
an Electoral Landslide,” Middle East Report Online (May
16, 2003)
"Forecasting
Mass Destruction, From Gulf to Gulf,"
Middle East Report Online (September 29, 2005)
Lara
Deeb
Lara
Deeb is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor of women’s
studies and anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
She is also an Academy Scholar at Harvard University’s Academy
for International and Area Studies for 2006-07. She is the author
of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i
Lebanon (2006), "Hizballah, A Primer," Middle
East Report Online, July 31, 2006 as well as of a number of
articles on the transformation of Shi‘i religious ritual,
Islamic women’s participation in the public sphere and Hizballah
in Lebanon. Her current projects include an analysis of the intersection
of public religiosities and understandings of temporality, a new
project on "interfaith intimacies" in relation to transnational
discourses about sexuality and religion, and an ongoing collaborative
field research project on the Islamic cultural sphere in Lebanon.
"Hizballah:
A Primer," Middle East Report Online (July 31,
2006)
Kaveh
Ehsani
Kaveh
Ehsani is on the editorial board of Goft-o-gu (Dialogue)
journal in Iran and is the author most recently of "Social
Engineering and the Contradictions of Modernization in Khuzestan’s
Company Town," (International Review of Social History,
2003), “High Stakes for Iran” (Middle East Report, Summer
2003) and “Neo-Conservatives, Hardline Clerics and the Bomb” with
Chris Toensing (Middle East Report, Winter 2004).
“Pushing the Limits:
Iran's Islamic Revolution at Twenty,” Middle East Report
(Fall 1999)
“Round 12 for Iran's Reformists,”
Middle East Report Online (January 29, 2004)
"Iran's
Presidential Runoff: The Long View,"
Middle East Report Online (June 24, 2005)
Hilal
Elver
Hilal
Elver is distinguished visiting professor at the University
of California Santa Barbara Global and International Studies
Program. She earned her bachelor degree and PhD in law from the
University of Ankara, School of Law in Turkey, where she taught
Roman law, comparative law, international environmental law,
and legal status of women until 1993. In the 1990s the Turkish
government appointed her as legal advisor to the Ministry of
Environment, then as the legal advisor and general director of
women’s status under the
auspices of the Prime Ministry. In 1994–6 she taught environmental
diplomacy as the UNEP Chair at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic
Studies in Malta. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University
of Michigan School of Law in 1993 and visiting fellow at the Center
of International Studies at Princeton University in 1997. She
has published several articles on environmental law and women’s
issues in Turkey. She is author of Peaceful Uses of International
Rivers: The Case of Euphrates and Tigris Rivers (Transnational
Publishers, 2002).
Samera
Esmeir
Samera Esmeir is a former lawyer who received her PhD from the
Institute of Law and Society, New York University, and now teaches
in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California
at Berkeley. She is the coeditor and cofounder of Adalah's
Review, a socio-legal journal published in Arabic, Hebrew
and English that focuses on the Palestinian minority in Israel.
Her main areas of research are colonialism, modernity, law,
war and violence with a particular focus on Egypt, the 1967
Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. She is the author
of "1948:
Law, History, Memory," in Social Text 75 (Summer
2003).
"Introduction: In the
Name of Security," Adalah's Review, vol. 4 (Spring 2004)
Lisa
Hajjar
Lisa
Hajjar teaches in the Law and Society Program at the University
of California Santa Barbara. She is the author of Courting
Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and
Gaza (University of California Press, 2005). Hajjar chairs
the editorial committee of Middle East Report and is a
member of the board of the Middle East Research and Information
Project (MERIP). Her main areas of expertise include the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, international human rights and humanitarian law (including
the Geneva Conventions), and the relationship between law and
conflict in the contemporary Middle East. Her research areas include
torture, nationality, ethnicity, race and gender, human rights
movements and activism, and sociology of law.
“From Nuremberg to Guantánamo:
International Law and American Power Politics,” Middle
East Report (Winter 2003)
“Torture and
the Future,” Middle East Report Online (May 2004)
Bayann
Hamid
Bayann
Hamid is the media coordinator for MERIP. She holds a Bachelor of
Science in International Affairs from Georgetown University's School
of Foreign Service. Bayann has traveled and worked in various countries
of the Middle East. Bayann has previously worked for AMIDEAST, Damascus,
the Bethlehem Peace Center in the West Bank and Association Najdeh
in Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. Between 2005 and 2007, she worked
at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Georgetown Public
Policy Institute.
Arang
Keshavarzian
Arang
Keshavarzian is assistant professor of government at Connecticut
College where he teaches Middle East politics and comparative
politics. He received his PhD in 2003 from the department of politics
at Princeton University and wrote his dissertation about the organization
of the Tehran bazaar and state-bazaar relations from 1963 to the
present. He conducts research and publishes on issues related
to ulama-state relations, the Tehran bazaar and economic policies
and commercial activities in the Persian Gulf.
"Iran's
Conservatives Face the Electorate," Middle East Report
Online (February 1, 2001)
"On
the Eve of Iran's Presidential Elections: Report from Tehran,"
Middle East Report Online (June 7, 2001)
Keshavarzian
and Mohammad Maljoo, "Paradox
and Possibility in Iran's Presidential Election," Middle
East Report Online (June 17, 2005)
James
McDougall
James
McDougall teaches modern Islamic history at Princeton University.
He studies the modern and contemporary history of the Middle
East and North Africa, with broader interests in the French colonial
empire, the history of Islam since 1700, and colonial and nationalist
historiography. After studying French, German, and Arabic at
the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (M.A. in 1998), he
earned his D.Phil. (2002) in Oriental Studies at St. Antony’s
College, University of Oxford. His first book, History
and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria (Cambridge University
Press, 2006), examines how Islamic intellectuals invented the
idea of an Algerian national history and culture, and traces the
role of this idea in nationalist politics between World War I
and the outbreak of the revolution against the French in 1954.
He is editor of Nation, Society, and Culture in North Africa
(Cass Series, History and Society in the Islamic World, 2003).
Khalid
M. Medani
Khalid
M. Medani is associate professor of political science and Islamic
studies at McGill University. Medani has published extensively
on the political economy of Islamic fundamentalism and civil war
in Sudan and on the war on terrorist finance and informal banking
in Somalia. He has also conducted extensive research on globalization,
informal networks and political Islam in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia.
Medani holds a BA in Development Studies from Brown University,
an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and a PhD in
Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
He has worked as a researcher with the Brookings Institution and
was a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International
Security and Cooperation (2002-2003). His publications include
“Financing Terrorism or Survival? Informal Finance, State Collapse
in Somalia, and the War on Terror” (Middle East Report,
issue 223, Summer 2002) and “State Building in Reverse: The Neo-Liberal
‘Reconstruction’ of Iraq” (Middle East Report, issue 232,
Fall 2004).
"Black
Monday: The Political and Economic Dimensions of Sudan's Urban
Riots," Middle East Report Online (August 9,
2005)
Julie
Peteet
Julie Peteet is chair and professor of anthropology at
the University of Louisville. Her research in Palestine and Lebanon
has focused on displacement, refugees, violence, space, place
and identity, and colonial spatial strategies. She is the author
of Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps
(2005) and Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance
Movement (1991). Her articles have appeared in Cultural
Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Signs,
Cultural Survival, Social Analysis and Middle
East Report, among other journals.
Shahnaz Rouse
Shahnaz Rouse teaches in the sociology department at
Sarah Lawrence College. Rouse holds a BA from Kinnaird College,
Pakistan, an MA from Punjab University, Pakistan, and both an
MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her academic
specialization is in historical sociology, with particular emphasis
on the mass media, gender, and political economy. Rouse is co-editor
with Cynthia Nelson of Situating Globalization: Views from
Egypt (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2000) and author of Shifting
Body Politics: Gender/Nation/State (New Delhi: Feminist Fine
Print, South Asia Books, 2004). She is currently working on a
project in social history entitled, "Memory and History in
the Life of a City". She has been the recipient of grants
and fellowships from the Fulbright/Hays Foundation, the Social
Science Research Council, the American Institute for Pakistan
Studies, and the Council on American Overseas Research Centers.
“Elections in Pakistan: Turning
Tragedy Into Farce,” Middle East Report Online (October
18, 2002)
Paul
Silverstein
Paul
Silverstein is associate professor of anthropology at Reed College.
He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago
in 1998. His research interests include North African immigration,
religion, and politics in France; Berber and regionalist politics
in Algeria; and the Amazigh cultural movement in Morocco. Silverstein
has published extensively in disciplinary and area studies journals
and edited volumes. He is the author of Algeria in France:
Transpolitics,
Race, and Nation (Indiana University Press, 2004) and editor,
with Ussama Makdisi, of Memory and Violence in the Middle East
and North Africa (forthcoming, Indiana University Press).
“’The Rebel is Dead. Long Live
the Martyr!’ Kabyle Mobilization and the Assassination of Lounès
Matoub,” Middle East Report (Fall 1998)
“Regimes of (Un)Truth:
Conspiracy Theory and the Transnationalization of the Algerian
Civil War,” Middle East Report (Spring 2000)
“Headscarves and the French Tricolor,”
Middle East Report Online (January 30, 2004)
Silverstein
and Chantal Tetreault, "Urban
Violence in France," Middle East Report Online
(November 2005)
Ted Swedenburg
Ted Swedenburg is professor of anthropology at the University
of Arkansas. He is the author of Memories of Revolt: The 1936-39
Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past (1995, 2003 2nd
ed), co-editor with Rebecca Stein of Palestine, Israel and
the Politics of Popular Culture (2005) and co-editor with
Smadar Lavie of Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of
Identity (1996). His current research concerns Middle Eastern
and Islamic popular musics.
"Snipers and the Panic Over
Five Percent Islamic Hip-Hop," Middle East Report Online
(November 10, 2002)
"Arab
'World Music' in the US," NITLE Arab World project, originally
published in Middle East Report 219 (Summer 2001)
"Sa‘ida Sultan/Danna International: Transgender Pop
and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian
Border," in Walter Armbrust, ed., Mass Mediations,
New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond
(2000)
Chris Toensing
Chris
Toensing is editor of Middle East Report and director
of the Middle East Research and Information Project. Toensing
has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation,
The Progressive and other US newspapers and
magazines, and has appeared hundreds of times on radio and TV
programs to discuss Middle East politics. He holds an MA in Near
Eastern Studies from Princeton University. An Arabic speaker,
Toensing also lived in Egypt for three years.
Chris Toensing’s page at AlterNet.org
"Israel, the US and ‘Targeted
Killings,'"Middle East Report Online (February
17, 2003)
“The Iraqi Governing Council's
Sectarian Hue,” Middle East Report Online (August 20,
2003)
“Holding Syria
Accountable, Though Selectively,” Daily Star (September
2003)
“Never Too Soon
to Say Goodbye to Hi,” Middle East Report Online
(September 2003)
“To Deny Iran Atomic
Weapons, Create a Nuclear-Free Region.” Daily Star (December
16, 2003)
“Lost in Our Own
Little World,” Los Angeles Times (April 18, 2004)
"Postcards
From the Abyss," The Nation (November 28, 2005)
