MER Article From the Editor (November/December 1995) This issue marks a milestone for MERIP, as we celebrate this fall our twenty-fifth year as an organization and, in May 1996, 25 years of publication. It also marks a point of transition for me: As those of you who have seen our most recent appeal letter already know, at the end of this year I will b Joe Stork, The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (September/October 1995) Agha, Hussein J. and Ahmad S. Khalidi. Syria and Iran: Rivalry and Cooperation (London: Pinter, 1995). Amnesty International. Syria: Repression and Impunity (London, 1995). Archibugi, Daniele and David Held, eds. Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 199 The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (September/October 1995) Not all international travelers are tourists. The August deployment of thousands of US troops to participate in war games in Jordan and Kuwait will not show up in the statistics of this fast-growing global industry, though shore leaves may boost some bar and brothel receipts in Haifa and Bahrain. Bu The Editors • 2 min read
Editor's Picks (July/August 1995) African Rights. Sudan’s Invisible Citizens: The Policy of Abuse Against Displaced People in the North (London, 1995). Article 19. Secret Decree: New Attack on the Media in Algeria (London, 1994). Badran, Margot. Feminism, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt (Princeton, NJ: Prin The Editors • 2 min read
From the Editors (July/August 1995) We have always been uncomfortable using the phrase “peace process” to refer to the actual dynamic of Palestinian-Israeli relations. The phrase in fact appropriates “peace” to refer exclusively to terms of American-Israeli imposition, and to exclude as “enemies of peace” those who insist that these t The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (March/April 1995) Afrasiabi, K. L. After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran’s Foreign Policy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994). African Rights. Humanitarianism Unbound? Current Dilemmas Facing Multi-Mandate Relief Operations in Political Emergencies (London, 1994). Boutwell, Jeffrey et al, eds. Lethal Commerce: The The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (March/April 1995) A public debate over the US-led economic sanctions policy against Iraq is long overdue. More than four years have passed since the Gulf war ceasefire and Baghdad’s bloody suppression of the popular uprisings that followed. The regime, the ostensible target of the sanctions, appears to be firmly in p The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks January/February 1995) Abu Libdeh, Hassan, et al. A Survey of the Syrian Population in Occupied Golan Heights (Majdal Shams: Arab Association for Development, 1994). Amnesty International. Algeria: Repression and Violence Must End (London, 1994). Association of Israeli-Palestinian Physicians for Human Rights. The Transf The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (January/February 1995) Two years ago, Algeria’s army displaced the ostensibly constitutional regime of Chadli Benjedid to forestall an all-but-certain victory of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in a second round of elections scheduled for a few weeks later. The chief consequence of that army intervention is a war whose The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (November/December 1994) Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl, eds. In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994). Arkoun, Mohammed. Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994). B’tselem and Palestinian Lawyers for Human R The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors This issue looks at the economic and social crises that beset Iran more than 15 years after the Islamic Revolution. While the articles presented here share a critical perspective toward the present government, the authors allow us to see aspects of a society that both endures and challenges the inep The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (September/October 1994) Alternative Information Center. Guidelines for Palestinians Who Wish to Reside in the West Bank, Gaza Strip or East Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 1994). Amirahmadi, Hooshang and Eric Hooglund, eds. US-Iran Relations: Areas of Tension and Mutual Interest (Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, 1994). Barlo The Editors • 1 min read
