This colloquy takes the Middle East region as a starting point from which to explore a contrapuntal concept of security that is subverted from its original meaning and captured from the state. The essays follow the lives of revolutionary youth, doctors, commodity traders, refugees, and spies to examine their experiences of (in)security. In doing so, the essays deploy storytelling and other ethnographic forms to think of the political economy, emotions, flows, and ethics of security from the perspective of those living-in-crisis.

This article explores the ways in which refugee and host experiences of displacement in Jordan between 2010 and 2013 were articulated in a socioeconomic register that coincided with, but was also independent of, both state biopower and historical cross-border regionalisms. I argue that this register became salient due to a shared understanding of everyday life as characterized by what I term hunger, a state of depredation where “people eat people” to attain their own well-being. In pursuing this argument, the article has two goals: to show how Iraqis and Jordanians negotiated the complexities of living together in hunger by censuring individuals—locals and foreigners, rich and poor—who contributed to producing hunger rather than to alleviating it, and by consciously resisting the corrosive effects of hunger on social relations; and, more generally, to challenge universalizing understandings of refugee experiences according to which local tensions between refugees and hosts are derivative of a globalized antiforeigner discourse.

has developed the "Islamophobia is Racism" syllabus. This is an excellent online resource for teaching and studying issues of Islamophobia, which they have thoughtfully rede ned as anti-Muslim racism to address intersections of domestic and global politics. MES members do crucial service elsewhere as well, speaking among Palestinian colleagues to assess and enact the AAA's proposed e orts to share scholarly resources with occupied Palestinian libraries and universities. For students and scholars interested in MES's activities and resources, and seeking collaborative opportunities with MES in general, we sponsor the AAMIDEAST listserv, maintained by the independent Task Force for Middle East Anthropology. The listserv serves as a venue for discussion, as well as for sharing information on publications, CFPs, conferences and job positions. We look forward to connecting across AAA to share solidarity and critical will.-Emilio Spadola Anthropology Matters! For the 2017 AAA Annual Meeting, the program committee sought panels that confront policy, address the di erent ongoing con icts in the region, and tackle some of the more controversial issues. MES is also sponsoring an invited session that addresses the Israeli Occupation, which enters 

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