Fred Halliday

Bio: 

Fred Halliday (1946-2010) was a long-time contributing editor of this magazine and a professor at the London School of Economics.


Articles by this Author
Iran and the Middle East

MER220
Letter from Kuwait

MER215
The Middle East at the Millennial Turn

Any attempt to summarize the direction of the Middle East at the cusp of the Millennium is hazardous indeed: We should long ago have resisted the temptation to see the region as a single, integrated political or socio-economic whole, or to reduce...

MER213
Arabia Without Sultans Revisited

MER204
Iraq Revisited

Amatzia Baram, Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Baathist Iraq, 1968-1989 (Macmillan, 1991).

Samir al-Khalil, The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq (Andre...

MER187
A Military Solution Will Destroy Kuwait

Ahmad al-Khatib has been active for many years in the Kuwaiti opposition movement and was a member of Kuwait’s parliament until its dissolution in 1986. Al-Khatib attended the assembly of Kuwaitis in Jidda, called by the ruling Al...

MER168