MER Article Where Famine Is Functional Images of African famine once again scan Western television screens, prompting a renewed search for causes and solutions. In this worried atmosphere it is easy to overlook that international relief operations have now become a widespread and accepted response to this unfolding crisis. While Sudan an Mark Duffield • 13 min read
MER Article The National Islamic Front and the Politics of Education In a country like Sudan, those with access to education become the object of intense competition on the part of political parties of all stripes, especially those with no traditional base of support. Secondary schools and especially universities become the hunting ground -- and sometimes the killing Ali Abdalla Abbas • 12 min read
MER Article "The Regime Has Simply Barricaded Itself in Khartoum" Bona Malwal was elected to the Sudanese parliament in 1968. He was minister for culture and information from 1972 to 1978 and minister of finance and economic planning for the south from 1980 to 1981. His English-language newspaper, the Sudan Times, was banned when the current regime seized power in Joe Stork • 9 min read
MER Article Funding Fundamentalism While Islamic fundamentalism has become a major political force in the Arab world in recent years, particularly in the countries of the Maghrib, it is in Sudan where the Islamist movement has realized its greatest ambition: controlling the levers of state power and setting itself up as a model for s Abbashar Jamal • 12 min read
MER Article Sudan's Deepening Crisis Conditions that prevail in Sudan today -- environmental degradation, drought and famine, civil war, repression, and sharp deterioration in economic and living conditions for the majority of the population -- reflect a long process of bad leadership in the country since independence in January 1956. A succession of sectarian governments, Benaiah Yongo-Bure • 15 min read
MER Article Sudan: Politics and Society Sudan is a vast country, the largest in Africa and as large as the United States east of the Mississippi river. Its 25 million people are divided among 19 major ethnic groups and 597 subgroups. [1] Arabic is the official language, the mother tongue of the majority of Sudanese; English Martha Wenger • 12 min read
MER Article From the Editors Iraq and Kuwait, on the eastern frontier of the Arab world, represent one face of the region’s future. Sudan, on the southern frontier, represents another. Unlike the regimes of Saddam Hussein and the Sabahs, the Khartoum junta led by Omar al-Bashir has experienced neither constraint nor favor from The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Mossad Books Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Every Spy a Prince (Houghton Mifflin, 1990). Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy, By Way of Deception (St. Martin’s Press, 1990). Promoting their book around the US last fall, Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv touted it as the first critical study of Israel’s intelligence establis Jane Hunter • 5 min read
MER Article Binder, Islamic Liberalism Leonard Binder, Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies (Chicago, 1988). Sami Zubaida • 6 min read
MER Article War and Sexuality The Gulf way may ultimately transform Arab politics even more radically than the political-military defeats of 1948 and 1967. Those experiences were the midwives of self-critical reassessments that, while severe, accepted the fundamental legitimacy of Arab nationalism and its political project. In t Joel Beinin • 4 min read
MER Article The More You Watch, the Less You Know The Persian Gulf crisis received massive and sustained coverage in the American media. As numerous critics have pointed out, television network news in particular largely parroted the Bush administration’s line, accepting and passing on its version of reality as the truth. A study released in March Al Miskin • 3 min read
