MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 1998) Arab Resource Center for the Popular Arts. al-Jana (Special Issue on Oral History Among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon) (Beirut, 1998). Article 19 and Kurdish Human Rights Project. State Before Freedom: Media Repression in Turkey (1998). Beinin, Joel. The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Po (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Al Miskin BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY The US justifies periodic saber rattling against Saddam Hussein by claiming that Iraq is the only country to have employed chemical weapons in battle. Forgotten amidst the propaganda is dissident Iraqi tribes’ first encounter with chemical weapons during an uprising (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 1998) Arat, Zehra F. Deconstructing Images of “the Turkish Woman” (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). Bengio, Ofra. Saddam’s Words: Political Discourse in Iraq (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Carapico, Sheila. Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia (Cambrid (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Letter I am writing in connection with Eugene Rogan’s article, “No Debate: Middle East Studies in Europe,” which appeared in Middle East Report 205 (October-December 1997). Below, I comment on aspects of that article and contrast several others with the experience expressed in Lisa Hajjar and Steve Niva’s (Author not identified) • 4 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 1998) Abul-Husn, Latif. The Lebanese Conflict: Looking Inward (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998). Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform (Syracuse, NY: syracuse University Press, 1997). Bagader, Abubaker, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 1997) Abi-Aad, Naji and Michel Grenon. Instability and Conflict in the Middle East: People, Petroleum and Security Threats (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997). Amanat, Abbas. The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Pr (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Letter We are writing to inform you of a Women’s Action Alert for Nuban Women and Children. As MERIP readers know, an unabated civil war has been in progress in Sudan for decades. However, since the National Islamic Front and its military wing took power in 1989, the viciousness of the war has intensified. (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Winter 1997) Our intent with this issue is simple: to present a critical evaluation of the current state of the field of Middle East studies. We focus centrally on the United States but also look at Middle East studies in other parts of the world, highlighting some of the important issues that have shaped the fi (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 1997) B’tselem. A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 1997). B’tselem. Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories as a Violation of Human Rights: Legal and Conceptual Aspects (Jerusalem, March 1997). B’tselem. The Quiet Deportation: Revoc (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Letters The special report on Afghanistan (MER 202) left me somewhat bemused. The author, Olivier Roy, may be a skilled anthropologist, but his political analysis can be seriously flawed and quite inconsistent. I was glad to see his article identify US economic and political interests (the oil and gas pipel (Author not identified) • 4 min read
MER Article M-I-C K-E-Y S-A-'-U-D In the days before globalization, when the US Air Force operated the only television station in his magic kingdom and the adventures of Davy Crockett were standard fare, the Saudi king loved to shower visitors with gifts. While heads of tribes received sacks of gold, Westerners often took home wrist (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Summer 1997) Ben-Ari, Eyal and Yoram Bilu, eds. Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997). Boyarin, Jonathan and Daniel, eds. Jews and Other Differences: New Jewish Cultural Studies (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 199 (Author not identified) • 1 min read
