MER Article Bahbah, Israel and Latin America Bishara Bahbah, Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection (New York: St. Martin’s Press with the Institute for Palestine Studies, 1986). Milton Jamail • 1 min read
MER Article Lamb, The Arabs David Lamb, The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage (New York: Random House, 1987). More accessible than academic or political studies, journalism has long been the vehicle for most popular knowledge of the Middle East. Recently, with the increase in the number of foreign correspondents writing full- Lee OBrien • 1 min read
MER Article Halsell, Prophecy and Politics Grace Halsell, Prophecy and Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1986). While there is nothing particularly new about Christian fascination with the Biblical “holy land,” Grace Halsell provides an important contemporary portrayal of the means by wh Mary Neznek • 2 min read
MER Article Ferguson and Rogers, Right Turn Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (New York: Hill and Wang, 1986). Where the United States chooses to intervene actively, as in the Middle East, Central America and southern Africa, American politics can be a matter of life Bill Farrell • 3 min read
MER Article Michalak and Salacuse, Social Legislation in the Contemporary Middle East Laurence Michalak and Jeswald W. Salacuse, eds., Social Legislation in the Contemporary Middle East (Berkeley, CA: IIS, 1986). Peter Gran • 5 min read
MER Article Sinai for the Coffee Table Dani Rabinowitz, Ru’ah Sinai (The Sinai Spirit) (Tel Aviv: Adam Publishers, 1987). [Hebrew] Ever since Israel occupied the Sinai desert in 1967, that piece of earth has consistently made Israeli headlines. Its media presence was only enhanced after Camp David and Israel’s withdrawal in 1979 and 198 Smadar Lavie • 13 min read
MER Article From Tel Aviv to LA The Manhattan telephone directory, like that of any major American city, reflects the United States’ melting pot in action. Flipping through its pages and browsing through the names of a million individuals, one realizes quickly that some of them do not melt very readily. Comparing the directory of Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi • 11 min read
MER Article Orientalism Revisited Edward W. Said, a contributing editor of this magazine, is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His 1978 book, Orientalism, has had an enormous impact on Western understanding of the Middle East. His most recent book, with Jean Mohr, is After the Last Sky. Jam Edward Said • 17 min read
MER Article The Egyptian Left After the Debacle The debacle suffered by the Egyptian left at the polls in 1987 -- 2 percent of the vote as compared to 4.5 percent in the 1984 parliamentary elections -- provoked a soul-searching debate in Tagammu‘, the legal party of the left. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed • 4 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 "I Am Not a Russian Dissident" Akram Haniyyah was editor of the Jerusalem daily al-Sha‘b, circulation 5,000 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He was deported on December 28, 1986 to travel on an Algerian passport. He has no place of residence. This article first appeared in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, February 15, 1987. Akram Haniyyah • 5 min read
MER Article "The State Cannot Make Criminals Of Those Who Want Peace" Reuven Kaminer immigrated to Israel from the United States in the early 1950s and became a prominent figure in Shasi (Israeli Socialist Left). He was a member of the Israeli delegation that met with the PLO in Romania in November 1986. Israeli authorities brought Kaminer and three others to trial fo Joel Beinin • 5 min read
