MER Article From the Editors (November/December 1983) On Sunday night, November 20, we paused along with millions of others in the US to watch ABC’s television drama of nuclear devastation. “The Day After” abstracted its fictional crisis from current headlines by having its US-Soviet confrontation occur over Berlin rather than Lebanon or Nicaragua. On The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose (trans. Georgina Kleege) (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1982). Lee OBrien • 5 min read
MER Article Randal, Going All the Way Jonathan Randal, Going All the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers and the War in Lebanon (New York: Viking Press, 1983). Eric Rouleau • 6 min read
MER Article George Hawi, Problems of Strategy, Errors of Opposition CRITICISM AND DEFEAT: AN INTRODUCTION TO GEORGE HAWI A secondary objective of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon was to strike at the forces of the Arab left, which since 1967 had made Beirut their intellectual and, in many cases, operational center. Israel did not fully achieve this objective, just as i (Author not identified) • 20 min read
MER Article Pictures from the North Nadia Fifty-two years old, with an opulent and well-rounded shape. A head of hair that once tried to be reddish. Despite her weight, an energy and dynamism that say a lot about her will. She is a woman who is mistress of her surroundings, who dominates places -- in this case, the Villa Nadia. Marie-Christine Aulas • 7 min read
MER Article Campaign of Terror On September 17, 1981, a car booby-trapped with 300 kilograms of TNT exploded in front of the Joint Forces headquarters in Sidon, killing 21 people and wounding 96. Within the next three days, three other serious explosions occurred throughout Lebanon: a bomb in the grounds of a cement factory in Sh Lee OBrien • 12 min read
MER Article "There Is No Room for Any Palestinian in Lebanon" Abu Arz (“father of the cedar”) is the symbolic name taken by Etienne Saqr, born in Haifa to Lebanese parents, leader and commander-in-chief of the Guardians of the Cedars. The Guardians of the Cedars were born with the Lebanese civil war, out of the Party of Lebanese Renewal, itself established in A Special Correspondent • 6 min read
MER Article Report from Lebanon I flew into Beirut on May 17. As we descended over the city, what struck me was the many patches of vacant land, obvious gaps in the space of urban lives, large empty lots of red clay with milliards of glass and metal shards and slivers, glinting in the brilliant morning sun. Approaching the airport Joe Stork • 37 min read
MER Article From the Editors (October 1983) Imagine that in Poland or Nicaragua a local national who had worked several years for an American news agency was invited abroad by his employer. Imagine that when he went for a passport, he was blindfolded and beaten by local police who screamed that his work for the American news agency was unpatr The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Issawi, The Arab World's Legacy Charles Issawi, The Arab World’s Legacy: Essays (Princeton, NJ: The Darwin Press, 1981). Charles Issawi is well known for his important work in the social and economic history of the Middle East, and a number of his contributions are reproduced here. One finds, among other things, discussions of me James A. Reilly • 1 min read
MER Article Discrete Forms of the Petty Bourgeoisie Çağlar Keyder, The Definition of a Peripheral Economy: Turkey, 1923-1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). Gavin Kitching, Class and Economic Change in Kenya (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980. Karen Pfeifer • 7 min read
MER Article Warren's Revision of the Marxist Critique The theory of imperialism is in profound disarray. Many have recognized that dependency theory is inadequate to the task of analyzing the international capitalist economy, [1] while the touchstone of all Marxist analysis of imperialism—Lenin’s Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism—has been questi Gary Nigel Howe • 6 min read
