MER Article The Middle East at the Millennial Turn Any attempt to summarize the direction of the Middle East at the cusp of the Millennium is hazardous indeed: We should long ago have resisted the temptation to see the region as a single, integrated political or socio-economic whole, or to reduce what are, perhaps now more than ever, contradictory r Fred Halliday • 11 min read
MER Article An Open Letter to Abu Jerry For two decades, human rights lawyers struggled to publicize that thousands of Palestinians were being tortured under Israeli interrogation. Officials denied these allegations and accused the lawyers of being "terrorist sympathizers." It was a minor vindication when, in 1987, an official commission confirmed that the General Security Services Lea Tsemel • 5 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Winter 1999) Although the Middle East's role as the cradle of Judeo-Christian-Islamic civilization figures prominently in the West's sense of historical time and its perceptions of the impending millennial transition, most people in the region, being Muslims and Jews, attach no significance to the current year. The Editors • 2 min read
