MER Article NGOs, INGOs, GO-NGOs and DO-NGOs This issue of Middle East Report takes a critical look at "NGOs" -- non-governmental organizations -- in and beyond the Arab world. The topic is both trendy and controversial. Although they may see themselves as marginal actors, charities, advocacy groups and a range of other civic associations in Sheila Carapico • 8 min read
MER Article Disbeliever In January 1998, unidentified gunmen entered a movie theater and small mosque near Algiers and massacred 120 men, women and children. By the hunger of the children of Iraq By the sound of frantic running in Kosovo By the swollen bodies in a river in Rwanda and Afghani women and the writers of Algie Mohja Kahf • 1 min read
MER Article Regimes of (Un)Truth Since 1992, the civil war ravaging Algeria has claimed at least 100,000 lives. Through armed raids, village massacres, terrorist bombings and weekly kidnappings and assassinations, the war has victimized Algerian society as a whole, from the urban elites to the village poor. While the body count continues to rise, Paul Silverstein • 13 min read
MER Article Bethlehem Dispatch Although millions of people around the world watched Bethlehem's millennial celebration on CNN, those not present on the scene missed some interesting background details. The event was held in an open square surrounded by five-story buildings, and by 10 PM, tens of thousands of people had crammed in Maad Abu-Ghazalah • 2 min read
MER Article Seeking Sanctuary Israel's Islamist movement's successful campaign to establish a mosque beside the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth has been interpreted in many ways. For much of the western media, it was another Huntingtonian clash between a beleaguered Christendom and a rabidly intolerant Islam. For the Vatican Graham Usher • 8 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Spring 2000) On a drab Beirut side street is a modest restaurant famed for its delicious cuisine. A favorite haunt of top PLO officials, journalists and various political hangers-on in years past, the restaurant still enjoys a thriving business, serving local residents, shopkeepers and a large and growing entour The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 1999) Abdel-Malek, Kamal and David C. Jacobsen. Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999). B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. On the Way to Annexation: Human Rights Violations Resulting from the E The Editors • 1 min read
