MER Article The Wing of the Patriarch The relationship of women’s emancipation to liberation parties or movements raises a number of questions. The basic one is whether or not women are making their own revolution in their own name or being handed it by “another revolution.” [1] Sondra Hale • 20 min read
MER Article No Going Back? During the early stages of national political formation in the Middle East, when crises prevail and mass mobilization is a major organizing strategy, political movements often recruit women and the domestic sector into the political arena. Continuous crises, from which the domestic sector is not imm Julie Peteet • 15 min read
MER Article Political Roles of Iranian Village Women Masses of Iranian women, many of them “traditional,” relatively uneducated and from the lower classes, were politically quite active in the Iranian revolution. Many observers assume this to be without precedent. There is, however, a tradition of political participation and struggle in community poli Mary Hegland • 20 min read
MER Article Insurrectionary Women The study of women and politics has usually focused on the participation of women in the formal political arena -- that is, in politics as practiced by political parties, by people holding political office or, at most, by political opposition movements. In the Middle East context in particular, the Judith Tucker • 16 min read
MER Article Women and Politics in the Middle East How are Middle East women political and how do they participate in states, movements, revolts and revolutions? Few activities of ordinary people are inherently political. How something comes to be seen as political at times and non-political at other times, and who gets to define it as such, are bas Suad Joseph • 11 min read
MER Article From the Editors (January-February 1986) We mark MERIP’s 15 years of publication by introducing a few changes in the magazine. MERIP Middle East Report is the same magazine, but now has a title that identifies its focus for potential new readers unfamiliar with our acronym. We are confident that this new name and fresh look will help broad The Editors • 2 min read
Letters (October-December 1985) The "Lebanon primer" in your June issue was quite good. It is difficult to see what more you could have gotten into it. I have only a couple of remarks, which certainly are not a criticism, as I myself don’t see how you could have worked these nuances in within the short space at your disposal. (Author not identified) • 7 min read
Hart, Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? Alan Hart, Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
From the West Bank to Armageddon From the West Bank to Armageddon A 45-minute slide-tape program produced by Sara Freedman and Ted German for Boston Mobilization for Survival. Available from Survival Education Fund. Organizing around Middle East issues has never been easy in the United States. A number of obvious political problem Zachary Lockman • 1 min read
Benvenisti, Israeli Censorship of Arab Publications Meron Benvenisti, Israeli Censorship of Arab Publications: A Survey (New York: Fund for Free Expression, 1984). Sarah J Graham-Brown • 2 min read
Books on Jordan Uriel Dann, Studies in the History of Transjordan, 1920-1949 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984). Paul A. Jureidini and R. D. McLaurin, Jordan: The Impact of Social Change on the Role of the Tribes (New York: Praeger, The Washington Papers 108, 1984). Clinton Bailey, Jordan’s Palestinian Challenge Mary C. Wilson • 4 min read
Habiby, Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist Emile Habiby, Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist (New York: Vantage Press, 1982). Stephen Tamari • 5 min read
