MER Article You Can't Go Wrong Pushing Peace The Palestinian intifada is proving a headache to Israel’s image managers on American campuses. “Recent events in the territories in Israel have spilled over on to the US university campuses [and] our work has been made harder,” complains a recent book -- let from the University Service Department o (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Berkeley's Sister-City Initiative Sister cities has become one of Berkeley’s most popular means of expressing support for particular communities and opposition to US foreign policy. Berkeley has six sister cities, including Leon in Nicaragua, San Antonio de los Ranchos in El Salvador and the South African Black township of Oukassie. Marianne Torres • 3 min read
MER Article Proposition W The Bay Area’s “progressive” reputation was somewhat tarnished November 8 when voters in San Francisco and Berkeley overwhelmingly rejected pro-Palestinian initiatives on their respective ballots. San Francisco’s Proposition W, which called for the US to recognize a Palestinian state “side by side” Jeffrey Blankfort • 7 min read
MER Article A Bullet, A Lie ahmad had those wildly intense eyes that would stare through you as he spoke and would light up every now and then as he listened and would drive me crazy what does he want from me? i remember ahmad when he returned from prison to ya‘bad and his grandmother ululated in jubilation danced in happi Joost Hiltermann • 1 min read
MER Article Editor's Bookshelf (March/April 1989) The Palestinian human rights monitoring organization, Al-Haq/Law in the Service of Man, the West Bank affiliate of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, marked the first anniversary of the intifada with a comprehensive report on Israel’s violations of human rights in its effort to qu Joel Beinin • 4 min read
MER Article Cossali and Robson, Stateless in Gaza Paul Cossali and Clive Robson, Stateless in Gaza (London: Zed Press, 1986). Stateless in Gaza comprises interviews with 60 Gazans -- from women activists to housewives, from resistance writers to laborers in Israel -- who talk about life in the occupied strip. Cossali, a teacher and solidarity acti Rania Atalla • 1 min read
MER Article Capitalism and the Ottoman Empire Huri Islamoglu-Inan, ed., The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1987). Şevket Pamuk, The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913: Trade, Investment and Production (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni James A. Reilly • 4 min read
MER Article Palestinian Communists and the Intifada Maher Al-Sharif, Al-Shuyu‘iyun wa Qadaya al-Nidal al-Watani al-Rahin [The Communists and Issues in the Current National Struggle] (Damascus: Center for Socialist Research and Study in the Arab World, 1988). The role of the Palestinian Communist Party (PCP) is one of the most important and least und Alain Gresh • 9 min read
MER Article Ahmad Sadiq Sa'd We were greatly saddened to learn of the death of Ahmad Sadiq Sa‘d -- a comrade, collaborator and friend of several members of Middle East Report’s editorial family -- in Cairo late last year. Sadiq was one of the intellectuals who stimulated the revival of the Egyptian communist movement in the lat (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Cambridge Voters Challenge US Policy Voters achieved an historic victory in Cambridge and a section of Somerville, Massachusetts, on November 8, 1988. By a margin of 53 to 47 percent they endorsed Question 5, a non-binding public policy question that called on elected officials to work towards a just settlement of the Palestinian-Israe Matthew S. Gordon • 4 min read
MER Article Children's Territory Given the same materials and the same opportunities, young chiliren all over the world paint in a similar way. They don’ necessarily paint the jame things. (Eskimo children will saint different animals from the chilIren in the Sudan.) What is similar is :he way young children make intuitive narks on John Berger • 2 min read
