MER Article Al-Ghosaibi, Arabian Essays Ghazi al-Ghosaibi, Arabian Essays (Boston, MA: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982). If Dr. al-Ghosaibi was as competent a minister of industry as he is a judicious essayist, then Saudi Arabia may be somewhat more fortunate in its rulers than might otherwise appear. A poet and observer of international Fred Halliday • 1 min read
MER Article Oil Politics in the Arab World Giacomo Luciani, The Oil Companies and the Arab World (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984). Yusif Sayigh, Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s (London: Croom Helm, 1983). Abdulaziz al-Sowayegh, Arab Petro-Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984). David Howdon, ed., The Energy Crisis Ten Years Afte Michael Renner • 3 min read
MER Article Books on Arab Economies Samir Amin, The Arab Economy Today (London: Zed Press, 1982). Ismail-Sabri Abdalla et al, eds., Images of the Arab Future (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983). (Translated from Arabic) Adda Guecioueur, ed., The Problems of Arab Economic Development and Integration (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 198 Sharif Elmusa • 3 min read
Khoury, Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism Philip S. Khoury, Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983). This is the latest in a growing number of studies which discuss the social origins of political ideologies in the Arab East. Philip Khoury sets himself the task James A. Reilly • 3 min read
MER Article The Arabian Peninsula Opposition Movements The contemporary opposition movements in the Arabian Peninsula have their origins in two processes of radicalization in Middle Eastern politics. The first was the rise of radical nationalists, Nasserists and Baathists, and of communist parties in the 1950s and 1960s, and the second is the spread of The Editors • 4 min read
MER Article Labor Migration in the Arab World The Arab world comprises 18 states and was inhabited, in 1980, by more than 150 million people. [1] Two factors vital to economic development—population and oil—are, however, distributed in an extremely uneven manner among these states. The abstract possibility of mutually beneficial cooperation bet Fred Halliday • 20 min read
MER Article Hiro, Inside the Middle East Dilip Hiro, Inside the Middle East (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982). Peter Johnson • 2 min read
MER Article The Hammamat Declaration In early April 1983, a group of 35 Arab intellectuals, academicians, professionals and political activists met at the Hammamat cultural center in Tunis to discuss the crisis of human rights and democratic freedoms in the Arab world. No officials or representatives of any Arab government attended, an (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article George Hawi, Problems of Strategy, Errors of Opposition CRITICISM AND DEFEAT: AN INTRODUCTION TO GEORGE HAWI A secondary objective of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon was to strike at the forces of the Arab left, which since 1967 had made Beirut their intellectual and, in many cases, operational center. Israel did not fully achieve this objective, just as i (Author not identified) • 20 min read
MER Article Issawi, The Arab World's Legacy Charles Issawi, The Arab World’s Legacy: Essays (Princeton, NJ: The Darwin Press, 1981). Charles Issawi is well known for his important work in the social and economic history of the Middle East, and a number of his contributions are reproduced here. One finds, among other things, discussions of me James A. Reilly • 1 min read
MER Article The Arab Economies in the 1970s The 1970s were undoubtedly the most dramatic and important years in recent Middle Eastern history. The decade began politically with the death of Nasser, the formal withdrawal of the British from the Gulf and the first sharp increase in the price of oil. Oil -- its production and marketing, its reve Roger Owen • 27 min read
