Reflecting on the decade following the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Joe Stork overviewed politics in the region for MERIP’s winter issue. Our 50th anniversary issue featured Joe Stork’s reflections on the first 25 years of MERIP and an interview conducted by Lisa Hajjar with Joe and Chris Toensing, Joe’s successor as Editor. To mark MERIP’s 50th anniversary Joe Stork was gathered into a group for a MESA roundtable with current and former editorial committee members—Waleed Hazbun, Zachary Lockman, Ted Swedenburg, Judith Tucker, Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Jacob Mundy and Norma Claire Moruzzi—to discuss the legacy of MERIP after 50 years.