MER Article The War and the Struggle for the State “Was it not your KGB which indirectly passed on to us the secret plan for the Iraqi offensive?” President Bani-Sadr’s point-blank question clearly embarrassed the Soviet ambassador. Vladimir Vinogradov lapsed into an embarrassed silence but his face was lit by a smile which was as broad as it was en Eric Rouleau • 15 min read
MER Article From the Editors (July/August 1981) The Iranian revolution is well into its third year. It has been difficult from the outside to follow the complex course of recent political developments there, but it is clear that Iran’s future will be determined for years or decades ahead by the balance of political forces that comes out of the in The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Morgan, Domestic Intelligence Richard E. Morgan, Domestic Intelligence: Monitoring Dissent in America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980). Konrad Ege • 1 min read
MER Article Hill, Mahkama! Enid Hill, Mahkama! Studies in the Egyptian Legal System (London: Ithaca Press, 1980). Enid Hill has produced an unusual and important contribution to understanding the political economy of modern Egypt. Her book, clear and easy to follow, adopts an anthropological approach to the study of the Egyp Peter Gran • 1 min read
MER Article Kissinger Memorandum: "To Isolate the Palestinians" MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION DATE AND TIME: June 15, 1975 12:15 to 2:35 pm PLACE: Suite 311, Hotel Pierre, New York City SUBJECT: Meeting with Jewish Leaders (Klutznik Group) Kissinger: First of all, I want you to know how much I appreciate your taking off on the weekend to come here. (Author not identified) • 24 min read
MER Article "All This Time We Were Alone" Saleh Baransi was born in 1929, finished elementary school in his village of Tayba, and went to Jerusalem in 1944 to continue his secondary studies. In 1952, he was appointed a teacher in a secondary school in Tayba. In 1957 he was one of the founders of the Popular Front, which was established in I (Author not identified) • 17 min read
MER Article A Palestinian Option Fred Halliday’s comments on the debate that constitutes the bulk of Towards a Socialist Republic of Palestine (1978) require a serious Palestinian response. Unwittingly, perhaps, Halliday’s comments tend to undermine this debate, and put a damper on Palestinian intellectual and passionate exploratio Khalil Nakhleh • 7 min read
MER Article Revolutionary Realism and the Struggle for Palestine The discussion of socialist strategy in Palestine recorded in Towards a Socialist Republic of Palestine has lost none of its pertinence despite the fact that it was recorded some time ago, in 1976. Sadat’s initiatives have not yet revised the basic terms in which the problem has been set since 1948. Fred Halliday • 27 min read
MER Article From the Editors (May/June 1981) The question of Palestine has consistently been of great importance to our work ever since the first issue of MERIP Reports was published ten years ago, in May 1971. More recently, in our introduction to “The PLO at the Crossroads” (July-August 1979), we wrote that MERIP is interested “in encouragin The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article A New International Division of Labor? A number of theorists have recently put forth the notion of a “new international division of labor” in which the old colonial division of labor involving Third World exports of raw materials and imports of finished goods has been transcended. [1] According to this thesis, Third World countries have James Petras • 7 min read
MER Article "I Have Not Seen a Good Day in My Life" Interview with Hilmi Zaki: Are you married? Yes, and my wife is an orphan. I chose an orphan woman so that she struggles with me the way I struggled when I was young. Her father was a lawyer -- he died when she was young. Where do you live? (Author not identified) • 10 min read
MER Article "I Am Definitely a Product of the Revolution" Interview with Ibrahim Araq: We would like to begin by asking you the usual questions about your marital status, your salary, your age and so forth. I am 31, married, but with no children. I work as an accountant at the National Library in Cairo (Dar al-Kutub). My net monthly pay is 29.77 pounds. (Author not identified) • 4 min read
