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
MER Article Letter Joel Beinin’s review of my book The Obstruction of Peace and Edward Said’s Peace and Its Discontents (MER 201) is not a review of either book, but rather an attempt to advance a thesis, namely that both authors fail to recognize that the marginalization of the Palestinians and an unequal peace with (Author not identified) • 5 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 1997) Accad, Evelyne. Wounding Words: A Woman’s Journal in Tunisia (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1996). Arab Coordinating Committee on Housing Rights/Israel. Housing for All: Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing for the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel (Nazareth, 1996). Alexander, Meena. The Sho (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 1996) Aswad, Barbara and Barbara Bilge, eds. Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996). Ayubi, Nazih. Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (London: I. B. Tauris, 1996 (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Palestinian Rights in Post-Oslo Israel Below are the proceedings of a roundtable discussion held in Nazareth, Israel, on June 24, 1996. The participants were: Aida Toma-Suliman, general director of Women Against Violence, Hala Espanioli Hazzan, chairperson of the Follow-up Committee on Arab Education in Israel, Hassan Jabareen, director (Author not identified) • 10 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 1996) Afary, Janet. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996). Berrada, Mohamed. The Game of Forgetting (Austin, TX: University of Texas, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1996). Chatty, Dawn. Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman (N (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article UN Impasse in the Western Sahara In his January 1996 report on the UN operation in the Western Sahara, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali expressed the Security Council’s “frustration...at the absence of even a reasonably clear indication of when the [referendum] process might come to an end.” This was one of Boutros-Ghali’s m (Author not identified) • 10 min read
