MER Article From the Editor (Summer 1999) Although a decade has passed since President George Bush proclaimed the dawn of a “new world order” characterized by global US military and economic supremacy, it is increasingly obvious that the leaders of the new world order understand less about its dangers and contradictions than do those at its The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editorial (Spring 1999) People throughout the Middle East have long contended with political systems that neither represent them nor serve their interests. With the advent of neoliberalism as the world’s defining economic trend, however, governments and citizens alike in the Middle East are now subject to a global economic The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Arcs of Crises Between the confrontations with Iraq in February and November, and the Cruise missile salvos directed at Afghanistan and Sudan in August, 1998 has been rather busy for the gunboat section of the US diplomatic corps. Twice, the UN secretary-general averted US military action by securing promises that The Editors • 6 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Fall 1998) Five years ago on the White House lawn, President Bill Clinton assumed he had achieved a monumental Middle East policy coup. Since then, the overall situation in the Middle East has worsened, largely due to the ignorance and arrogance that characterize US policy making in the region. In the face of The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 1997) The construction of a new Jewish settlement at Jabal Abu Ghunaym is but the latest effort by the Israeli government to assert its sovereignty over East Jerusalem and preempt the “final status” talks on the city’s future. In addition to completing the inner ring of Jewish settlements around East Jeru The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 1997) The last four months in Algeria have left more than 650 civilians dead and significantly more wounded. During the month of Ramadan alone (January 10-February 7, 1997) the latest wave of car bombings and massacres killed more than 350. As many as 60,000 have died in the civil war triggered when the a The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Winter 1996) Three years ago, a handshake in Washington was to have ushered in an unprecedented era of peace in the Middle East. While the return of the Likud to power has focused the attention of mainstream media on the questionable future of this “peace process,” it would be a grave error The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Fall 1996) This, our two-hundredth issue of Middle East Report, addresses the sensitive topic of minorities in the Middle East. The articles examine the relations of power that create and preserve or challenge and displace the politics of difference in a variety of contexts. National, ethnic, religious and sectarian differences make conflict The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 1996) Abdalla, Ahmad. Parliamentary Elections in Egypt: What Elections? What Parliament? And Which Egypt? Amsterdam Middle East Papers 1/3 (Amsterdam, 1995). Adelson, Roger. London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power and War, 1902-1922 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996). Appiah, The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 1996) B’tselem. Incidents of Death and Injury Resulting from Exploding Munitions Remnants (Jerusalem, 1995). Colonna, Fanny. Les versets d’invincibilite: Permanence et changements religieux dans l’Algerie contemporaine (Paris: Presse de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1995). Darweish, Ma The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Spring 1996) The first month of 1996 saw election monitors and “democratization” consultants falling over each other in the West Bank. Along with the flood of media witnesses, they certified that, in former President Jimmy Carter’s words, “The Palestinian people had an historic opportunity to choose their leader The Editors • 4 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (November/December 1995) Aburish, Said. The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995). Afkhami, Mahnaz, ed. Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995). African Rights. Great Expectations: The Civil Roles of th The Editors • 2 min read
