Squaring the Palestinian Circle Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian scholar and close observer of PLO affairs, is presently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. He recently completed a book on the PLO experience in Lebanon. Nubar Hovsepian and Joe Stork spoke with him in late January 1 Joe Stork, Nubar Hovsepian • 15 min read
The PLO and the Jordan Option The PLO stands at a crossroads. The battle of Beirut revealed the valiant and tenacious character of Palestinian nationalism and the corresponding paralysis of the Arab state system, but the forced withdrawal of the PLO from Lebanon presented the organization with the most serious challenge to its c Naseer Aruri • 21 min read
From the Editors (March/April 1985) Over the last several years, library subscriptions to MERIP Reports have expanded steadily. We are very pleased at this development, and we are anxious to encourage an even higher rate of growth in library subscriptions. In particular, we would like to see more subscriptions at public libraries, whe The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Stookey, South Yemen Robert Stookey, South Yemen: A Marxist Republic in Arabia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1982). Fred H. Lawson • 1 min read
MER Article Bidwell, The Two Yemens Robin Bidwell, The Two Yemens (Boulder: Westview Press, 1983). Robin Bidwell was a British political officer in Western Aden Protectorate from 1955 to 1959, and has written five other volumes on the Arabian Peninsula. Most of this new work deals with the region subsequent to the British seizure of Jon C. Swanson • 1 min read
MER Article Kramer, Minderheit, Millet, Nation? Gudrun Kramer, Minderheit, Millet, Nation? Die Juden in Agypten, 1914-1952 (Minority, Millet, Nation? The Jews in Egypt, 1914-1952) (Wiesbaden, 1982). Up to now, the history of the Jewish community in Egypt has been known only to a few specialists. Some periods have been analyzed quite well -- for (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Tibi, Die Krise des modernen Islams Bassam Tibi, Die Krise des modernen Islams: Eine vorindustrielle Kultur im wissenschaftlich-technischen Zeitalter (The Crisis of Modern Islam: A Pre-industrial Culture in the Age of Science and Technology) (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1980). Gudrun Kramer • 3 min read
MER Article Gitai, Field Diary Amos Gitai, Field Diary (1984). Rarely has the cinema verité technique, with its false naiveté, been deployed so strategically as in Field Diary. It looks as if it could have been made by your little brother with the family toy camera, and it is even hard to credit filmmaker Amos Gitai with the ear Pat Aufderheide • 5 min read
MER Article The Gulf Between the Superpowers Anthony Cordesman, The Gulf and the Search for Strategic Stability: Saudi Arabia, the Military Balance in the Gulf, and Trends in the Arab-Israeli Military Balance (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984). Occasionally, when an important head of state arrives in Washington for consultation without a previou Scott Armstrong • 11 min read
MER Article Memories of a Sentimental Education I was supposed to set an example. Voluntary Service Overseas was in its second year in 1959 and two of us were here on a pound a week plus keep, to be examples. Nineteen-year-old examples. A year before university, you’ll have a wonderful experience. It was, too. The students in Form 2A were not wh Michael Gilsenan • 9 min read
MER Article "We Are Rebuilding Our Organization" “Ahmad” is a representative of the Socialist Labor Party in the Arabian Peninsula. MERIP interviewed him in February 1984. What were the origins of your party? (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article "We Must Be Realistic About Our Goals" “Al-Hamdani” is the nom de guerre of a representative of the Yemeni People's Unity Party. MERIP spoke with him in February 1984. (Author not identified) • 8 min read
