MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2001) Ahmad, Eqbal. Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian (Boston: South End Press, 2000). Akash, Munir and Moore, Daniel, eds. Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens (Syracuse, NY: Jusoor/Syracuse University Press, 2000). Al-Ali, Nadje. Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Letters (Fall 2000) Kuwait MERIP's Iraq issue (MER 215) represented an opportunity to shape the magazine according to the needs of the new activism challenging Washington's policy towards Iraq-the movement against crippling economic sanctions, thrice-weekly bombings, the undermining of the United Nations and the regio (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article Americans Against the Sanctions As US policy supporting the continuation of sanctions on Iraq becomes ever more isolated abroad, domestic criticism of sanctions also mounts. Opponents of sanctions gained new visibility in February 1998 at Ohio State University, when pointed questions from the audience disrupted the Clinton adminis (Author not identified) • 7 min read
MER Article "Existing Political Vessels Cannot Contain the Reform Movement" Sai’id Hajjarian, a leading theorist of the democratic Islamist new left, is one of President Khatami’s closest political advisers. In 1998 he ran for the Tehran City Council, receiving the second largest number of votes. Hajjarian is also the official permit holder for the daily Sobh-e Emrooz and s (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article Document: Forced Evictions and Destruction in Villages in Turkish Kurdistan This document is excerpted from a longer report by the Netherlands Kurdistan Society, Forced Evictions and Destruction of Villages in Dersim (Tunceli) and the Western Part of Bingöl, Turkish Kurdistan, September-November 1994 (Amsterdam, 1995). (Author not identified) • 8 min read
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
