MER Article No Jubilee for the Middle East? The website of Jubilee 2000-United Kingdom lists 57 countries that have Jubilee 2000 campaigns for the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the poorest countries by the year 2000. [1] No country from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) appears on this list. [2] Robert Naiman • 8 min read
MER Article Water and Women As the year 2000 approaches, humanity has passed an important milestone, one that has nothing to do with the new Millennium, but which may have many more consequences than the Y2K bug. On October 12, the world’s population officially passed six billion. While pundits debated whether this was cause f Sally Ethelston • 14 min read
MER Article 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 what are, perhaps now more than ever, contradictory r Fred Halliday • 11 min read
MER Article An Open Letter to Abu Jerry For two decades, human rights lawyers struggled to publicize that thousands of Palestinians were being tortured under Israeli interrogation. Officials denied these allegations and accused the lawyers of being "terrorist sympathizers." It was a minor vindication when, in 1987, an official commission confirmed that the General Security Services Lea Tsemel • 5 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Winter 1999) Although the Middle East's role as the cradle of Judeo-Christian-Islamic civilization figures prominently in the West's sense of historical time and its perceptions of the impending millennial transition, most people in the region, being Muslims and Jews, attach no significance to the current year. The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 1999) Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999). Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999). Batatu, Hanna. Syria’s Peasantry, The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Clipped Wings, Sharp Claws Sarah Graham-Brown, Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999). Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (New York: HarperCollins, 1999). Scott Ritter, Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All (New Joost Hiltermann • 7 min read
