MER Article From the Editors (September/October 1994) The question of population and development needs to be framed first and foremost as a question of equity. The articles in this issue address explicitly the matter of gender equity in families and societies, in ways that challenge the notion that Middle Eastern birth and fertility rates can be neatly The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (July/August 1994) ‘Abd al-Hadi, ‘Izzat, Usama Halabi and Salim Tamari, al-Mu’assasat al-wataniyya, al-intikhabat wa al-sulta (National Institutions, Elections and the Authority) (Ramallah: Muwatin, 1994). Abu-Amr, Ziad. Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad (Bloomingt The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (July/August 1994) For many decades now, those states whose borders include and divide Kurdistan have alternatively tried to ignore, deny, manipulate and suppress widespread Kurdish demands for political rights. In this, the rulers have enjoyed the unstinting support of their great power patrons, the broad support of The Editors • 2 min read
Editor's Picks (March/April 1994) Association of Israeli-Palestinian Physicians for Human Rights. The Occupied Health Care System (Tel Aviv, 1992). Augustin, Ebba, ed. Palestinian Women: Identity and Experience (London: Zed Books, 1993). Bowen, Donna Lee and Evelyn Early, eds. Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East (Bloomington, The Editors • 1 min read
From the Editors (March/April 1994) The collapse of the bipolar world order, and the profound crises of many post-colonial nation-states in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, Central America and Central Asia, have given rise to a range of conflicts and major humanitarian disasters that in turn have fueled a new debate in the US and The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (January/February 1994) Abrahamian, Ervand. Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Revolution (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993). Adnan, Etel. Of Cities and Women: Letters to Fawwaz (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1993). Amnesty International. Saudi Arabia: The Arrest, Detention and Torture of Christian a The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (January/February 1994) Publication of this issue offers the opportunity, and the obligation, to thank the hundreds of readers who responded to the appeal we sent out in October. We said that we needed to raise $20,000 in order to bring together here a range of Palestinian opinion and analysis about the Oslo accord and its The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (November/December 1993) In the preamble to the agreement signed on September 13, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization “agree that it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict.” This agreement may or may not serve that purpose. Peace and justice advocates should not be under any illusion The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (November/December 1993) Article 19. “Dismantling Civil Society: Suppression of Freedom of Association in Sudan,” Censorship News 27 (August 1993). Bennis, Phyllis and Michel Moushabeck, eds. Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1993). Burgat, François and William Dowell. The Isla The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (September/October 1993) Alcalay, Ammiel. After Jews and Arabs (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992). B’tselem. The Closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Human Rights Violations Against Residents of the Occupied Territories (Jerusalem, 1993). Connell, Dan. Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revo The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article From the Editors (September/October 1993) In this issue we consider “new orders” in several senses -- orders of hierarchy, orders of magnitude and marching orders. Ray Hinnebusch succinctly notes the underlying theme: the struggle of capital to dominate labor, internationally via the IMF’s “liberalization” leverage and locally (in this case The Editors • 2 min read
MER Article From the Editors (July/August 1993) The board and editorial committee of MERIP met over the first weekend of June. The main item on our agenda was structural adjustment -- not a detached analysis of Egypt and the World Bank, but a wrenching confrontation with our need to bring the costs of this organization and magazine in line with t The Editors • 2 min read
