On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 9:01 AM MERIP <subscripti...@merip.org> wrote:
> View this email in your browser > <https://mailchi.mp/1224e67ca839/icymi-issue-on-carceralism-and-lebanon-event?e=086111b704> > > *Middle East Research and Information Project* > *Critical coverage of the Middle East since 1971* > *ICYMI: Issue 312 and Lebanon Event* > > *Dear Friends and Comrades: * > > *Last week, we released our latest issue, Carceral Realities and Freedom > Dreams > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=e30cc21af5&e=086111b704>. > It is a grim read at times – regimes across the Middle East have become > more restrictive and less free over the last decade, and those policies > have been aided and abetted by policy > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=74bdab5cf6&e=086111b704> > emanating from the “free” worlds in Europe and the United States. The > region has long known and battled these policies, and yet they keep > expanding and the provision of resources for the formerly incarcerated are > weaker than ever. As Yara Sallam, an Egyptian activist, told us in our > roundtable > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=e6a86ead86&e=086111b704>, > * > > Nothing prepared me for coming out of prison, even though I was just there > for 15 months. A lot of people did not understand why I had such a > difficult time after I got out. Even my mother did not understand. She > would say, “But you weren’t tortured like my father was, and he came out > just fine. Why are you not well?” > > *The persistence of these activists, and of those battling carceral logic > across the region, is nonetheless inspiring. Resistance to the prison > system continues to take on new forms, as we learned from Chafic Najem’s > piece on cell phones > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=fafff53ad9&e=086111b704> > in the Lebanese prison system. Our cover art, from formerly incarcerated > artist Yassin Mohamed, draws out the persistence of life in spite of a > system designed to grind it down, as our Managing Editor Marya Hannun puts > it > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=58240d565c&e=086111b704>, > “They do not just gesture to life beyond the prison but hint at how > resistance to the slow death of imprisonment can be enacted within the > carceral reality of prison itself.” * > > *We hope you’ll take some time to read, share, and learn from this issue. > We’re honored to have brought it out, and thankful for the partnership of > the folks at the Orfalea Center at UC-Santa Barbara and at Security in > Context, who helped make it possible. We will continue to share this and > more analysis with you here, and hope that you will join us and the authors > of our recent Lebanon Primer > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=61c908024c&e=086111b704> > for a discussion > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=9660108abe&e=086111b704> > on the war on Lebanon this Thursday. * > > > *In Solidarity,* > > > > *James Ryan Executive Director* > Read the Issue > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=098cb6a3a0&e=086111b704> > *EVENT: The War on Lebanon * > Join the authors of our recent Lebanon Prime > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=a2bcd4a6bb&e=086111b704> > r > <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=503bbdd83e&e=086111b704>, > Lara Deeb, Maya Mikdashi, Tsolin Nalbantian and Nadya Sbaiti for a > conversation, moderated by MERIP Editorial Committee Member Laleh Khaili on > the war on Lebanon and the history of resistance to Israeli violence this > Thursday, 10/24, noon EDT. 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