The Palestinian Diaspora of the Gulf Editor’s Note: A longer version of this article appeared as a three-part series in Le Monde, June 15-17, 1982. It appears here by permission of the author. Since the article was written, the economic cutbacks in the Gulf have reduced jobs available to the Palestinians and also affected the Palestini Eric Rouleau • 9 min read
Hussein Hangover Diplomatic activity on the future of the occupied West Bank and Gaza has again assumed a high profile. The luminaries traveling on this particular mission are jetting around the globe -- King Fahd in Washington, Hussein in Algiers, and the US and the Soviet Union in Vienna. The people at the heart A Special Correspondent • 9 min read
Peck, The Reagan Adminstration and the Palestine Question Juliana S. Peck, The Reagan Administration and the Palestine Question: The First Thousand Days (Washington, DC: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1984). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Scholch, Palestinians Over the Green Line Alexander Schölch, ed., Palestinians Over the Green Line (London: Ithaca Press, 1983). Penny Johnson • 3 min read
MER Article Visualizing History Sarah Graham-Brown, The Palestinians and Their Society, 1880-1946 (New York: Quartet Books, 1980). Miriam Rosen • 12 min read
MER Article Two Books on Jordan Avi Plascov, The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, 1948-1957 (London: Frank Cass, 1981). Peter Gubser, Jordan: Crossroads of Middle Eastern Events (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983). Mary C. Wilson • 2 min read
MER Article Abu Iyad, My Home, My Land Abu Iyad, My Home My Land: A Narrative of the Palestinian Struggle (with Eric Rouleau) (New York: New York Times Books, 1981). My Home, My Land provides important information on the man who is second in command of Fatah and also presents the largely untold “internal” history of that organization. A John Egan • 3 min read
MER Article "Abu 'Ammar's Biggest Mistake Was Gambling on the Americans" ‘Abd al-Jawad Salih was born in al-Bira, Palestine, in December 1931. He finished high school there and later attended the American University in Cairo, where he received a B.A. in political economy in 1955. He taught briefly in Jerusalem, and then at a teachers’ training college in Tripoli, Libya. (Author not identified) • 9 min read
MER Article Yasser Arafat's Nightmare Eqbal Ahmad, a close observer of the Palestinian resistance movement since 1968, has made many visits to the region and conferred with Palestinian leaders. His involvement developed out of his speaking and writing on behalf of the national liberation struggles in Algeria and Vietnam. Ahmad, who is f Eqbal Ahmad • 18 min read
MER Article The Mutiny Against Arafat The mutiny that broke out in May has shaken Fatah with the most serious crisis of its existence. This crisis not only threatens to split the main organization of the Palestinian resistance (with 80 percent of its members), but also calls into question the very existence of the PLO. Eric Rouleau • 13 min read
MER Article Behind the Fatah Rebellion Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian scholar, is associate professor of politics at the American University of Beirut and a research fellow of the Institute for Palestine Studies. He is currently a visiting professor at Georgetown University, and he has written widely on political developments in the Arab Rashid Khalidi • 18 min read
MER Article The Dilemma of the PLO In a ground-floor apartment this July, near a sprawling refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a new PLO poster was taped roughly to the wall. It made a pointed political statement, at a time when Yasser Arafat’s leadership had been openly challenged from within the military wing of his own Fatah movemen Helena Cobban • 10 min read
