MER Article Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose (trans. Georgina Kleege) (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1982). Lee OBrien • 5 min read
MER Article Randal, Going All the Way Jonathan Randal, Going All the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers and the War in Lebanon (New York: Viking Press, 1983). Eric Rouleau • 6 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 Pictures from the North Nadia Fifty-two years old, with an opulent and well-rounded shape. A head of hair that once tried to be reddish. Despite her weight, an energy and dynamism that say a lot about her will. She is a woman who is mistress of her surroundings, who dominates places -- in this case, the Villa Nadia. Marie-Christine Aulas • 7 min read
MER Article Campaign of Terror On September 17, 1981, a car booby-trapped with 300 kilograms of TNT exploded in front of the Joint Forces headquarters in Sidon, killing 21 people and wounding 96. Within the next three days, three other serious explosions occurred throughout Lebanon: a bomb in the grounds of a cement factory in Sh Lee OBrien • 12 min read
MER Article "There Is No Room for Any Palestinian in Lebanon" Abu Arz (“father of the cedar”) is the symbolic name taken by Etienne Saqr, born in Haifa to Lebanese parents, leader and commander-in-chief of the Guardians of the Cedars. The Guardians of the Cedars were born with the Lebanese civil war, out of the Party of Lebanese Renewal, itself established in A Special Correspondent • 6 min read
MER Article Report from Lebanon I flew into Beirut on May 17. As we descended over the city, what struck me was the many patches of vacant land, obvious gaps in the space of urban lives, large empty lots of red clay with milliards of glass and metal shards and slivers, glinting in the brilliant morning sun. Approaching the airport Joe Stork • 37 min read
MER Article From the Editors (October 1983) Imagine that in Poland or Nicaragua a local national who had worked several years for an American news agency was invited abroad by his employer. Imagine that when he went for a passport, he was blindfolded and beaten by local police who screamed that his work for the American news agency was unpatr The Editors • 3 min read
