MER Article An Open Letter to Comrade Mikhail Gorbachev Dear Comrade, Surprising as it may be, an Iraqi citizen addresses you through the Western press. I have no guarantees that, if my letter reaches your media, its contents would be passed to the Soviet people. My message is quite plain: A people in the Middle East is being exterminated. The Soviet p (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Letters Arab Documentation on Palestinians I have read a number of reviews of Benny Morris’ The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, including your own. All give the book the praise which it deserves, but there is one point about Morris' approach to which I have so far seen no reference in (Author not identified) • 4 min read
MER Article Letter (July/August 1988) I would appreciate your publishing in Middle East Report the information that Zed Books has agreed to withdraw from circulation and pulp all remaining copies of Bantustan Gaza by Richard Locke and Anthony Stewart. This action has been taken at my request on the grounds that substantial portions of t (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Document: Ismail Besikci on State Ideology and the Kurds Turkish sociologist Ismail Beşikçi, the country’s foremost authority on Kurds, was born in Çorum in 1939. He recounts meeting Kurds for the first time as a student at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science. Later he spent time in Turkey’s eastern provinces as a student and during his milit (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Document: "Deficiencies in the Islamic Movement" (Rashid al-Ghannouchi) Rachid al-Ghannouchi: "Deficiencies in the Islamic movement" Although the Islamist movement has realized great accomplishments in its attempts to liberate the Islamic community from the legacy of decay and the remnants of destructive Western invasions, it is still far from realizing its ultimate go (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article "How Can a Muslim Live in This Era?" Shaikh Hamid al-Nayfar is a leading figure in Tunisia’s Islamist movement. Francois Burgat, who interviewed him in Tunis in 1985, works at the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes sur les Societes Mediterraneennes (CRESM) in Aix-en-Provence, France. What is the meaning of the name of your magazine, (Author not identified) • 8 min read
MER Article Letters (May/June 1988) Human Rights Internet Objects (Author not identified) • 13 min read
MER Article Document: Shamir on Terrorism (1943) The following excerpts are from an article by Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister of Israel from 1983-1984 and 1986-1992. The article first appeared in the LEHI underground organization journal Hehazit (The Front) in the summer of 1943. (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Document: Hadassah Separates Hearts The following article appeared in Kol Ha’ir on May 1, 1987: As Hadassah Hospital prepares to begin performing heart transplants, it has decided to refrain from transplanting Jewish hearts into Arab bodies, and vice versa. This policy was revealed during a tour which Professor Shmuel Pinhas, the hos (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Document: Testimony of a Syrian Censor He does not wish to be identified because he believes that the long arm of the Syrian government will reach him anywhere in the world. Take his word for it, he said, he knew them better than anyone else. He ought to; he was once a censor in the ministry of information. He is also a writer and journa (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article An Unusual Hunger Strike in Istanbul Sporting bleached blond hair, black stockings, heavy mascara and mauve-tinted lenses, some 30 homosexuals from Istanbul began a hunger strike at Taksim Park on April 27, the first day of Ramadan. Nearly all of them transvestites, and all proudly wearing bright pink boutonnieres, they said they would (Author not identified) • 2 min read
