Letters (October-December 1985) The "Lebanon primer" in your June issue was quite good. It is difficult to see what more you could have gotten into it. I have only a couple of remarks, which certainly are not a criticism, as I myself don’t see how you could have worked these nuances in within the short space at your disposal. (Author not identified) • 7 min read
Hart, Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? Alan Hart, Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
From the West Bank to Armageddon From the West Bank to Armageddon A 45-minute slide-tape program produced by Sara Freedman and Ted German for Boston Mobilization for Survival. Available from Survival Education Fund. Organizing around Middle East issues has never been easy in the United States. A number of obvious political problem Zachary Lockman • 1 min read
Benvenisti, Israeli Censorship of Arab Publications Meron Benvenisti, Israeli Censorship of Arab Publications: A Survey (New York: Fund for Free Expression, 1984). Sarah J Graham-Brown • 2 min read
Books on Jordan Uriel Dann, Studies in the History of Transjordan, 1920-1949 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984). Paul A. Jureidini and R. D. McLaurin, Jordan: The Impact of Social Change on the Role of the Tribes (New York: Praeger, The Washington Papers 108, 1984). Clinton Bailey, Jordan’s Palestinian Challenge Mary C. Wilson • 4 min read
Habiby, Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist Emile Habiby, Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist (New York: Vantage Press, 1982). Stephen Tamari • 5 min read
Graham-Brown, Education, Repression and Liberation Sarah Graham-Brown, Education, Repression and Liberation: Palestinians (London: World University Service, 1984). “Whenever I hear the word culture,” said an occupying officer during the Spanish conquest of South America, “I pull out my gun.” Foreign invaders are often quick on the trigger, and quic Munir Fasheh • 5 min read
Ma'oz, Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank Moshe Ma’oz, Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank: The Changing Role of the Mayors Under Jordan and Israel (London: Frank Cass, 1984). Moshe Ma’oz is a current favorite in Israel and the US to guest lecture on the subject of Palestinian politics, and the Israeli media regularly defers to him as Anita Vitullo Khoury • 5 min read
Arab Cinema in Exile The smiling young actor posed on the cover of Cinematographe magazine this summer is Tunisian-born ‘Abd el-Kechich, star of ‘Abd el-Krim Bahloul’s 1984 film, Thé a la Menthe (Mint Tea). Jeune Cinema, meanwhile, is featuring Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, whose personalized retelling of the Frenc Miriam Rosen • 12 min read
Shadowplay Alain Gresh, The PLO: The Struggle Within (London: Zed Press, 1985). Over the past several years in the Occupied Territories, Palestinian intellectuals and activists close to the PLO mainstream have met with Israelis from a number of political factions represented in the Knesset. Their apparent aim Penny Johnson • 10 min read
"The Scope of the Fraud Was Huge" Norman Finkelstein is a doctoral candidate in politics at Princeton University. Jim Paul spoke with him in New York in November 1985. What sparked your investigation of the Peters book? James Paul • 7 min read
Conspiracy of Praise Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (New York: Harper and Row, 1984). Edward Said • 12 min read
