Barbash, Beyond the Walls Beyond the Walls, directed by Uri Barbash. Written by Benny Barbash, Eran Pries and Uri Barbash. Produced by Rudy Cohen. 103 minutes. Color. 35 mm. Distributed by Warner Brothers’ Globe Exports. Anita Vitullo Khoury • 5 min read
The Amazing Road The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, collected and translated by A.M. Elmessiri, illustrated by Kamal Boullata, Arabic calligraphy by Adel Horan, (Washington DC: Three Continents Press, 1982). Barbara Harlow • 7 min read
Israel and the Jewish Question Maxime Rodinxon, Cult, Ghetto, and State: The Persistence of the Jewish Question, London: Al Saqi Books, 1983. Akiva Orr, The unJewish State: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel, London: Ithaca Press, 1983. Lenni Brennr, The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir, London: Z Zachary Lockman • 10 min read
"Sidon, 'Ain al-Hilweh and the villages are only the beginning" This article, by the Lebanese novelist and literary critic, Elias Khoury, appeared in the Beirut daily, al-Safir, on February 18, 1985, immediately following what Israel has termed the first stage of its withdrawal from Lebanon. Khoury highlights the contradictions of the current situation in the re Elias Khoury • 6 min read
Hussein Hangover Diplomatic activity on the future of the occupied West Bank and Gaza has again assumed a high profile. The luminaries traveling on this particular mission are jetting around the globe -- King Fahd in Washington, Hussein in Algiers, and the US and the Soviet Union in Vienna. The people at the heart A Special Correspondent • 9 min read
Squaring the Palestinian Circle Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian scholar and close observer of PLO affairs, is presently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. He recently completed a book on the PLO experience in Lebanon. Nubar Hovsepian and Joe Stork spoke with him in late January 1 Joe Stork, Nubar Hovsepian • 15 min read
The PLO and the Jordan Option The PLO stands at a crossroads. The battle of Beirut revealed the valiant and tenacious character of Palestinian nationalism and the corresponding paralysis of the Arab state system, but the forced withdrawal of the PLO from Lebanon presented the organization with the most serious challenge to its c Naseer Aruri • 21 min read
From the Editors (March/April 1985) Over the last several years, library subscriptions to MERIP Reports have expanded steadily. We are very pleased at this development, and we are anxious to encourage an even higher rate of growth in library subscriptions. In particular, we would like to see more subscriptions at public libraries, whe The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Stookey, South Yemen Robert Stookey, South Yemen: A Marxist Republic in Arabia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1982). Fred H. Lawson • 1 min read
MER Article Bidwell, The Two Yemens Robin Bidwell, The Two Yemens (Boulder: Westview Press, 1983). Robin Bidwell was a British political officer in Western Aden Protectorate from 1955 to 1959, and has written five other volumes on the Arabian Peninsula. Most of this new work deals with the region subsequent to the British seizure of Jon C. Swanson • 1 min read
MER Article Kramer, Minderheit, Millet, Nation? Gudrun Kramer, Minderheit, Millet, Nation? Die Juden in Agypten, 1914-1952 (Minority, Millet, Nation? The Jews in Egypt, 1914-1952) (Wiesbaden, 1982). Up to now, the history of the Jewish community in Egypt has been known only to a few specialists. Some periods have been analyzed quite well -- for (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Tibi, Die Krise des modernen Islams Bassam Tibi, Die Krise des modernen Islams: Eine vorindustrielle Kultur im wissenschaftlich-technischen Zeitalter (The Crisis of Modern Islam: A Pre-industrial Culture in the Age of Science and Technology) (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1980). Gudrun Kramer • 3 min read
