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Material Politics of Normalization
Material Politics of Normalization

Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future

The Military-Industrial Backbone of Normalization

From Oslo to Offshore—The Rise of Energy Normalization in the Eastern Mediterranean

The Abraham Accords and Sudan’s Global Counterrevolution

Identity and Cultural Diplomacy of the Abraham Accords

On the Road to Rafah—The Sumud Convoy and New Maghrebi Geographies of Resistance
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Call for Pitches—Visual Art & Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa
Past issues of Middle East Report about art and culture.
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Call for Pitches—Visual Art & Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa

MERIP is seeking pitches for our Summer 2026 issue exploring visual art and cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. We invite submissions that center artistic practices and cultural histories while attending to the political, social and material conditions in which art is made and experienced. We welcome
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Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade
An illegal dump in Adana, Turkey in 2020. Plastic packaging from popular British supermarkets like Sainsbury's and French frozen food retailer Picard is ending up being dumped illegally in the Turkish countryside. (Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty Images)

Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade

As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting and a rising death toll of migrant laborers.
Adnan Khan • 15 min read
'We Want to Breathe'—Dispatch from Gabes, Tunisia
Protesters carry placards and chant slogans as they march in the southern city of Gabes, Tunisia, on October 31, 2025, demanding the dismantling of the state-run phosphate processing plant. (Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images)

'We Want to Breathe'—Dispatch from Gabes, Tunisia

A few weeks into the 2025 school year, in a middle school in Chott Essalem, Tunisia, students began to feel dizzy and light-headed and their throats tightened. Within minutes, they began collapsing, one after another. More mass asphyxiation events, as residents describe them, occurred throughout the month of September and
Dhouha Djerbi • 8 min read

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