MER Article From the Editor (Winter 2000) Langston Hughes famously asked, "What happens to a dream deferred?" As Hughes might have predicted, young Palestinians' long-deferred dreams of self-determination exploded this fall in a new intifada -- an uprising against both the Israeli occupation and the Oslo "peace process" that has done so The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2000) Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, Roger Heacock and Khaled Nashef, eds. Landcapes of Palestine: Equivocal Poetry (Birzeit: Birzeit University Publications, 1999). Ahmad, Eqbal. Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000). Amirahmadi, Hooshang. The Caspian Region a The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Fall 2000) As the western and southern United States sizzled in record heat this summer, a broad swath of the Middle East was suffering through the worst drought in memory. Through June and July, Middle Easterners sweltered in unusually high temperatures. In Morocco, where half the population works in agricult The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 2000) Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature 7 (Spring 2000). B'Tselem. Builders of Zion: Human Rights Violations of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories Working in Israel and the Settlements (Jerusalem: September 1999). B'Tselem. Legislation Allowing the Use of Physical Force and Mental Coerc The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Summer 2000) In the spring of 1995, a special issue of Middle East Report offered a damning assessment of US and Allied policy toward Iraq since the Gulf war: Economic sanctions imposed to topple the Iraqi government were punishing the Iraqi people instead. Over five years later, little and much has changed. UNI The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2000) Abdella Doumato, Eleanor. Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Adelkhah, Fariba. Being Modern in Iran (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Alcalay, Ammiel. Memories of Our Future (San Francisco: City Lights Bo The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Spring 2000) On a drab Beirut side street is a modest restaurant famed for its delicious cuisine. A favorite haunt of top PLO officials, journalists and various political hangers-on in years past, the restaurant still enjoys a thriving business, serving local residents, shopkeepers and a large and growing entour The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 1999) Abdel-Malek, Kamal and David C. Jacobsen. Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999). B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. On the Way to Annexation: Human Rights Violations Resulting from the E The Editors • 1 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 From the Editor (Fall 1999) A quarter of a century ago, MERIP Reports, the forerunner of this magazine, received wide acclaim for its incisive and politically accurate reporting on Iran in the years leading up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Two decades after the culmination of the tumultuous events that redefined Iranian soci The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 1999) Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997). Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia. Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing (Northampton, MA: Interlink Book The Editors • 1 min read
