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paperback. Condición: Very Good. Very Good Condition- May show some limited signs of wear and may have a black line or red dot on edge of pages. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Crisis in the Gulf, A Resource Packet: Reprints from Middle East Report, Middle East Research and Information Project, 1990, 53p, stapled magazine sized pb, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, CLEAN text, solid binding---5.00.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1978 issue of MERIP Reports (No. 73) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 28 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Crisis of Lebanese Capitalism: Backdrop to Civil War by Salim Nasr (with five photos, full-page map, three Tables, and topics: Lebanon and the Domination of the Middle East by Western Capitalism; Growth of Banking: Marginalization of Lebanese Sectors; Foreign Trade and Domination of the Arab Market; Rapid Monopolization of the Economy; Capitalist Penetration in Agriculture and Crisis of the Rural World; Rise of Agrarian Capitalism; The Socio-Economic Effects of the Rural Class; Pauperization and Forced Migration of the Lebanese Peasantry; A Limited and Crude Industrialization; Unequal Development and Explosive Inequalities; Footnotes); The Lebanese Lobby in the U.S. by C. L. Gates (with photo of Dory Chamoun); South Africa and the Shah: Oil Supplies at Stake (from 'Africa News'); Interview: Lebanese National Movement Leader Inam Raad; Document - Baghdad Summit: "The Palestinian Question Is The Essence of the Conflict" (with photo of "Arab heads of state and aides at Baghdad Summit" - "The following is the final statement of the Arab summit conference held in Baghdad, November 2-5, 1978, as broadcast by the Iraq News Agency on November 5 and translated in 'Foreign Broadcast Information Service,' November 6, 1978"). Mailing label to rear cover; staples rusted; light cover wear.

Magazine. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. Offered is the premiere issue of MERIP Reports (No. 1 - May 1971) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A stapled newsletter (which would quickly evolve into a magazine) measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing six pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: [Anwar] Sadat on top: any changes? (which begins, "The political shakeup in the UAR [United Arab Republic] was a struggle between contending factions in the ruling circles for control over state power. Sadat had jailed the other members of the 'collective leadership' set up after [Gamal Abdel] Nasser's death. Major differences in domestic and foreign policy do not identify the protagonists, although Sadat, having made his move, is now more dependent than before on the success of negotiations with Israel and the United States to reopen the [Suez] Canal and achieve at least a partial withdrawal of Israeli troops from its east bank"); suez peace: a piece for all?; divide, delay, conquer (with map: "Israeli strategy might be summarized as divide, delay and conquer, and while at it pick up as much military and economic assistance as possible from the United States"). Previously folded once for mailing purposes; subscriber label and canceled stamp to rear cover; right page edges curled and show short closed tears and small chips (not affecting text).

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the August 1971 issue of MERIP Reports (No. 2) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A stapled newsletter (which would quickly evolve into a magazine) measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing ten pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Amman [Jordan] '71: Long Hot Summer (written from Beirut, Lebanon, on July 21, 1971: "We just returned from a very tense five days in Amman. I had several strong impressions of what it had been like - in 1970 - from some friends. The contrast was too much. From the time we entered Jordan by service taxi, it was one constant prison. Only the fact that we had American passports enabled us to avoid several hassles. We got there last Saturday just as the major fighting was coming to a close" - "The town was like a funeral corpse. No one on the streets except three crazy Americans and the army. Every 20 meters a soldier with an M-16"); lengthy report The Arab/Persian Gulf: Oil on Troubled Waters (with two maps, a table entitled "International Companies' Oil Rights in the Gulf," a table entitled "Iran's Military Strength," and the following topics: The Military and Strategic Role; History of British Influence; Britain's Political Quandary; The Gulf States; Preserving the Gulf's Stability; The Union of Gulf Emirates; Iran's Military Dominance; and Threats to the Gulf's Stability). Subscriber's name and address, along with canceled postage stamp, to rear cover; issue previously folded once for mailing purposes; short creases to lower right corners.

Softcover. Condición: Good. 7" x 10" Wraps; 39pp; Newsprint age-toned with minor chipping to covers, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Artifact of Vietnam War era protests and activism. Digest of the Pentagon Papers brought to light by Daniel Ellsberg. Illustrated with photos. Published circa early 1970s.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January-February 1991 issue of MERIP Middle East Report (No. 168) (formerly MERIP Reports) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The [Persian] Gulf Crisis: No place to hide. Contents include: Interview - Samih Farsoun: A New Balance of Forces (with three photos; "This crisis has raised the class question on a pan-Arab level"; "The overwhelming sentiment is: With Kuwait against Iraq, but with Iraq against the United States"); Interview - Ahmad al-Khatib: A military solution will destroy Kuwait (with cartoon of Saddam Hussein saying "I intend to liberate Palestine, just as soon as they find oil there"); Arms limitations must include all parties by Rashid Khalidi (with cartoon and two photos); The Mythology of a Conqueror by Maxime Rodinson (on Saddam Hussein, with two photos); Kuwaiti Rights are the Issue by Samir al-Khalil (with two photos, including "Kuwaiti ruler Jabir al-Ahmad al-Sabah and aides at the White House"); The Gulf Crisis and the New World Order by Mohamed Sid-Ahmed (with cartoon); [Husni, also: Hosni] Mubarak's Gamble by Ahmed Abdalla (with photo and sidebar: Economic Impact of the Crisis compiled by Marsha Pripstein); The US in the Persian Gulf: From Rapid Deployment to Massive Deployment by Joe Stork and Martha Wenger (with map of Saudi Military Bases; Figure 1 of Arms Transfers to Saudi Arabia, 1983-1987; and two tables: Military Forces in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, and Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East); Iraq's Military Power: The German Connection by Jochen Hippler (with photo, Figure, Table, and Footnotes); Who are the refugees? by Martha Wenger (with two pie-charts); Human Rights Briefing by Omer Karasapan; excerpts: A Message of National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA on the Gulf and Middle East Crisis, November 14-16, 1990; Interview - Nabeel Abraham: Satanic Verses in Detroit (on Salman Rushdie and his death sentence issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini).

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March-April 1995 issue of MERIP Middle East Report (No. 193) (formerly MERIP Reports) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The Iraq Sanctions Dilemma: Intervention and Responsibility. Contents include: Intervention, Sovereignty and Responsibility by Sarah Graham-Brown (with photo, map, two Graphs, Footnotes, and topics: Sovereignty and Intervention; Human Rights and Protection; Humanitarian Aid; Kurdistan's Double Embargo; Displacement of Population; Impact on the Iraqi State; Impact on Iraqi Society; Debating Sanctions. With sidebar: Security Council Conflicts Over Sanctions. Sarah Graham-Brown writes, "The US and its allies appear reluctant to come to grips with the consequences of their intervention in Iraq. It is long past time to renew debate about the balance of ends and means that the sanctions policy embodies. Is the collective suffering of ordinary Iraqis commensurate with the aim of enforcing international standards of justice and humanity? Is this, in fact, the aim of the leading members of the Security Council?"); one-page Hidden Death (with three photos; "There may be more landmines deployed per person in Kurdish Iraq - population around 3.5 million - than in any other region in the world"); The Iraqi Opposition and the Sanctions Debate by Rend Rahim Francke (with photo "Selling black market gasoline in Sulaimanlyya, Iraq"); The Iraqi Question from the Inside by Pierre-Jean Luizard (with photo of soldier: "Iraqi Kurdistan"); The Saudis, the French and the Embargo by Fareed Mohamedi and Roger Diwan; Interview - The NGO Phenomenon in the Arab World: An Interview with Ghanem Bibi. Mailing label to rear cover; tiny corner creases to upper right and lower right corners of covers and pages; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the March-April 1989 issue of MERIP Middle East Report (No. 157) (formerly MERIP Reports) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Israel Faces the Uprising [First Intifada]. Contents include: poetry by Dan Almagor; Israel Faces the Uprising: A Preliminary Assessment by Azmy Bishara (with seven photos, Footnotes, and topics: Convergence; "Peace for Nothing"; Right and Left; Security and Anxiety; The Uprising and the Economy; From Asset to Liability; A Losing Project?); The Great Divide: Constructing an Effective Israeli Opposition by Emmanuel Farjoun (with four photos, including "Israeli troops on patrol" and "Yitzhak Shamir at the Allenby Bridge," and topics: "Internal Emigration"; The American Connection; Erasures; Liberals and Palestinians); The Elections, the Peace Camp and the Left by Asher Davidi (with photo "Defaced [Meir] Kahane campaign poster"); "Transfer" and the Discourse of Racism by Ken Brown (with photo "A school 'outing' in the Golan"); Interview - Gidon Eshet on the Economic Crisis: "We are willing to pay for settlements but not for health care"; Children's Territory by John Berger (with three examples of Palestinian artwork by children, including "[Ahmad 'Awad, 14 years old] Checking the identity card of the man returning from the market, blindfolding another and beating a third"); Abu Farid's House: Family and Politics in Salfit [West Bank] by Beshara Doumani (with five photos); Palestinian Communists and the Intifadah by Alain Gresh (on the Palestinian Communist Party). Mailing label to rear cover; sun-fading along left edge of front cover.

Magazine. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1985 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 132) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The Future of the Gulf. Contents include: Prospects for the Gulf by Joe Stork (with photo, two maps, Footnotes, and topics: The Gulf Cooperation Council; Military Foothold; The Threat Within); Migrant Labor and the Politics of Development in Bahrain by Rob Franklin (with three photos, one Table ["Bahrain: Population and Employment," a comparison of 1971 and 1981], Footnotes, and topics: Before the Oil Boom; Oil Boom and Migration; The Structure of the Labor Force; Labor Politics; Casualties and Complications); The Palestinian Diaspora of the Gulf by Eric Rouleau; Class and State in Kuwait by Fred Lawson (with photo, map, four Tables, Footnotes, and topics: Manufacturing Sector; Structural Trends; Political Challenges; Worker Opposition; Political Conflict and the State; The Political Arena; The Future of the State); Interview - A Bahraini Citizen ("Isa"): "The rulers are afraid of their own people" (with map and photo); Labor Movements in Bahrain by 'Abd ul-Hadi Khalaf (with two photos, including "Shanty dwellings in Manama," two Tables, Footnotes, and topics: Constitutional Reforms; Repression; Pacification; Economic Changes; Political Changes; Alternatives; Workers' Committees; A Possible Breakthrough?). Mailing label to rear cover; light water stains to corner areas of outer covers and interior pages; tiny corner creases.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March-April 1988 issue of MERIP Middle East Report (No. 151) (formerly MERIP Reports) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The Great Powers and the Middle East. Contents include: The Great Powers and the Middle East by Fred Halliday (with two photos, one of "Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan at the White House, December 1987"); North-South vs. East-West: The Shifting Focus of US Military Power by Michael T. Klare (with two photos, including "U.S. Army troops pose during Operation Desert Fire at Fort Irwin in California in August 1979"); The Middle East and Soviet Military Strategy by Michael MccGwire (with map, photo, and topics: Theaters of Military Action; The Persian Gulf; The Red Sea/Horn of Africa; A Doctrine for the '80s: The Regional War Contingency; Implications in the South; Military Intervention; Network of Strategic Objectives. With sidebars: Soviet Military Doctrine [with map] and "Warm Water Ports" [with map]); Moscow's Crisis Management: The Case of South Yemen by Fred Halliday (with two photos, including "'Abd al-Fattah Ismail and Salim Rubaya 'Ali in October 1972"); Soviet Perceptions of Iraq by Roderic Pitty (with photo, Footnotes, and topics: Soviet Discussion Since 1968; "Tendency of Bourgeois Rebirth"; Soviet Policy During the [Iran-Iraq] War; "Supplies in Other Areas"; From [Leonid] Brezhnev to [Mikhail] Gorbachev); [Ronald] Reagan's Iran: Factions Behind US Policy in the Gulf by Eric Hooglund (with two photos); Iraq's Seventh Year: Saddam's [Hussein] 'Quart d'Heure'? by 'Isam al-Khafaji (with two photos, including "The Basra Sheraton was closed after Iranian shells scored direct hits in January 1987," Footnotes, and topics: "Worthless Pockets"; The Kurdish Opposition; Economic Crisis; Who Guards the Guardian?; The Left's Dilemma. With sidebar: A Split in the Iraqi Communist Party?). Mailing label to rear cover; lengthy but very light corner area crease throughout issue; front cover shows corner creases, small edge chip.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the September-October 1986 issue of MERIP Middle East Report (No. 142) (formerly MERIP Reports) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Wealth and Power in the Middle East - "With 46 Profiles of the Region's Richest People." With photos throughout, Contents include: State Incubation of Iraqi Capitalism by 'Isam al-Khafaji (with sidebar "Some Leading Iraqi Families"); State and Capitalism in Iraq: A Comment by Hanna Batatu; Morocco's Bourgeoisie: Monarchy, State and Owning Class by Jean-Francois Clement; The New Bourgeoisie of the Gulf by James Paul (with Profiles from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait); The Exile Bourgeoisie of Palestine by Pamela Ann Smith (with Profiles); Turkey's Super-Rich by Omer Karasapan (with Profiles); Private Capital in Israel by Joel Beinin (with Profiles); Egypt's Infitah Bourgeoisie (with Profiles). Mailing label to rear cover; staples rusted; light sunning to outer edges.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 1984 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 124) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Women and Labor Migration. Contents include: Egyptian Migration and Peasant Wives by Elizabeth Taylor (with three photos); Yemeni Workers Abroad: The Impact on Women by Cynthia Myntti (with map, three photos, and Footnotes); Women and Labor Migration: One Village in Egypt [El Qabbabat, Egypt] by Fatma Khafagy (with two photos); one-page update Local Elections Set Turkey's Political Configuration by Feroz Ahmad; Review of two films, "The Fertile Memory" and "Hanna K." (reviewed by Miriam Rosen). Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; covers show light corner wear.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November-December 1984 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 128) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The Deadly Connection: [Ronald] Reagan and the Middle East. Contents include: Intervention and the Nuclear Firebreak in the Middle East by Michael Klare (with photo, graph, and topics: Superpower Involvement in the Middle East; Middle East Arms Transfers; Consequences of a Militarized Middle East; Eroding the Firebreak; Severing the Deadly Connection); Militarism, Monetarism and Markets: Reagan's Response to the Structural Crisis by James M. Cypher (with five photos, two Tables, one Graph, Footnotes, and topics: Capitalist Crisis and Structural Change; Internationalization and Overproduction; The Decline of US Power: Perception and Reaction; Policy Crisis of the Capitalist State; The Right's Base; Monetarist Violence; Functional Militarism; Market Violence; The Limits of Reaganism); The Central Command [USCENT-COM]: Getting to the War on Time by Martha Wenger (with four photos, one Table [U.S. Central Command "Force List"], Footnotes, and topics: No Invitation Necessary; Air-cushioned Intervention; A Swifter, Lighter Army; Central Command's Share; Readiness; NATO; Central Command Bases in the Middle East [by Country]); The Reagan Administration in the Middle East by Fred Lawson (with four photos, including "Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir at the White House, November 1983," two Tables, Footnotes, and topics: Policy Tenets [with Subtopics]; Phase One: January 1981-June 1982; Phase Two: July 1982-February 1984; Phase Three: Picking Up the Pieces); MERIP Reports 1984 Index. Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; covers lightly sunned.

Magazine. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the September-October 1989 issue of MERIP Middle East Report (No. 160) (formerly MERIP Reports) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-5/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Turkey in the Age of Glasnost. Contents include: Turkey and US Strategy in the Age of Glasnost by Omer Karasapan (with map of "US Military Sites in Turkey," Footnotes, and topics: Building a Military Relationship; From Coup to Counterinsurgency; Special Warfare; The 1971 Military Intervention; The 1980 Coup and the New Cold War; Openings East?); photospread Kurdish Refugees Still in Camps (with seven photos: "In 1988, 50,000 Iraqi Kurds fled into Turkey to escape murderous attacks - including poison gas - by the Iraqi army. A year later, many sit and wait in two bleak refugee camps, virtual prisoners"); Interview - Herman Schwartz: Prison Conditions in Turkey; Turkey's Other NATO Link by Diana Johnstone (with photo "Turkish troops on maneuvers"); Interview - Omer Kavur: Constructing a Cinema of the City (with his photo); Primer: Turkey by Martha Wenger (with map, photo, one Graph, four Tables, and topics: The People; The Land; Education; Health; Worth, Wealth and Poverty; Politics, US-Turkish Military Ties); Music, Fate and State: Turkey's Arabesk Debate by Martin Stokes (with illustration of Um Kalthoum [also: Umm Kulthum] and topics: Culture of Disintegration; Performance Control; [Prime Minister Turgut] Ozal and the Nightclub Queen; poetry by Etel Adnan; Update - Israel, the Contras and the [Oliver] North Trial by Jonathan Marshall (with photo of Oliver North); Black Hebrews in the Promised Land by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. Mailing label to rear cover; upper right and lower right corners of covers and pages creased and curled; chipping to upper right corner area of front cover.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 1984 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 127) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Insurrection in North Africa. Contents include: States of Emergency: The Riots in Tunisia and Morocco by Jim Paul (with map and four photos, including one of King Hassan II); Winter of Discontent: Economic Crisis in Tunisia and Morocco by David Seddon (with map, six photos, Footnotes, and topics: "Veritable Insurrectionist Commandos"; Symbols of Corruption; Phases of Unrest; Unemployment and Insurrection; Intensified Inequality; Determinants of Economic Policy; Implications of Austerity; The Snare of the Open Door); Letter from Madrid by Fred Halliday; Trade Unions and Moroccan Politics by Jean-Francois Clement and Jim Paul (with three photos, including "Moubir Amaoui, secretary-general of the Democratic Federation of Labor [CDT] and Abderrahim Bouabid, secretary-general of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces [USFP]"). Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; covers show light corner wear; closed corner tear to rear cover has been tape-repaired.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March-April 1984 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 122) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Turkey Under Military Rule. Contents include: The Turkish Elections of 1983 by Feroz Ahmad (with map, four photos, Footnotes, and topics: A New Order; Right from the Top; The High Command; Social Bases and The New Order; Advice and Detention; The Briefest Campaign; "Still No Excitement in Erzurum"; Elections and Martial Law); Military Rule and the Future of Democracy in Turkey by Ahmet Kemal (with two photos, including "The trial of the Turkish Peace Association," and topics: Ideology and the State; Capital and the Military; Popular Acceptance; The Potential of the Opposition); Turkey's Economy Under the Generals by Altan Yalpat (with four photos, four Tables, Footnotes, and topics: Cycles and Crises; Transition of Turkish Capital; The Defeat of Populism; The Generals' Miracle; The Kastelli [Finance House] Collapse; Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind; Political Equations and Military Intervention); Uncorking the Genie: The Cyprus Question and Turkey's Military Rule by Christopher Hitchens (with map). Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical fold to issue; tiny corner creases to inside pages; covers show periodic light edge and corner wear.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the September 1983 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 117) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-1/2" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Debt and Development. Contents include: International Finance and the Third World by Jeff Frieden (with three photos, several Tables and Graphs, Footnotes, and topics: Debt and Third World Capitalism; Foreign Debt, Foreign Investment; Debt and the Public Sector; Debt and the Development Debate; Assessing the Debt Crisis); Debt and Development in the Middle East by Karen Pfeifer (with two Tables); [Anwar] Sadat's Legacy, [Muhammad Hosni El Sayed] Mubarak's Dilemma by Roger Owen (with photo, three Tables, Footnotes, and topics: Windfall Consequences; Constructing an Interpretation; Enter Mubarak; Textiles and Trucks; Liberalization and the Future); Lengthy Review Essay Imperialism and the Middle East by Fred Halliday (a review of "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism" by Bill Warren); US Aid to Israel: The Censored GAO [General Accounting Office] Report by Joe Stork and Martha Wenger (with two Tables). Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; tiny to short creases to upper right page corners; covers show light edge and corner wear in places.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1984 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 121) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: State Terror in Turkey. Contents include: Western Silence on Turkey by David Barchard (with two photos); The Kurds in Turkey by Martin van Bruinessen (with three photos, including "Women and children, near Erzincan, left behind by men gone west for Jobs," and topics: The Kurds and The First Republic; Growth of a Kurdish Movement; The Major Kurdish Organizations; Cultural Rights and Repression. With Footnotes); The Torture of Huseyin Yildirim ("Huseyin Yildirim is a lawyer and a Kurd from eastern Turkey. In the fall of 1981, he was serving as defense counsel to members of the Kurdish Workers' Party [PKK], many of whom had been arrested and subjected to torture by Turkey's military junta. Yildirim himself was seized in October 1981 and was imprisoned in the Diyarbakir Military Prison from November 1981 until July 1982. He gave the following testimony to Amnesty International on November 3 and 4, 1982, in Sweden, where he now lives"); Trade Unions and Turkey's Working Class by Ronnie Margulies and Ergin Yildizoglu (with two photos, eight Tables, and topics: Emergence of the Trade Unions; The Advent of DISK [Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey]; The Coup of 1971; Towards the Coup; New Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining Legislation); Interview - DISK Federation Official: "The workers as a class were defeated" (with two photos); Interview - Trade Union Activist: "The traditional middle in Turkish politics disintegrated"; Interview - Construction Worker: "Please don't use my name." Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical fold to issue; tiny corner creases to inside pages.

Magazine. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November-December 1982 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 110) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Syria's Troubles. Contents include: The Asad [Hafez al-Assad] Regime and its Troubles by Alasdair Drysdale (with four photos, two maps, three Tables, Footnotes, and topics: The Complications of Lebanon; Arab Oil and Syria's Economy; Military Expenditure; Sectarian Troubles; Uprising in Hamah; The Aftermath of Hamah; External Factors); Syria's Muslim Brethren by Hanna Batatu (with five photos, three Tables, and topics: Program and Ideas; Roots of the Movement; Significance of the Small Traders; The Movement in Syria; Stages Under the Ba'th [Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]; The Brethren Against the Ba'th); Last Interview - Salah ed-Din al-Bitar: "The major deviation of the Ba'th is having renounced democracy" (with his photo); Social Bases for the Hamah [also: Hama] Revolt by Fred H. Lawson (with photo, two Tables, Footnotes, and topics: Hamah's Changing Economic Base; Changes in Agricultural Production; Large Landholders; Urban Revolt; Islam and Rebellion in Hamah); The Importance of Bodyguards by Gerard Michaud (with two photos, including "The fortress at Aleppo," two small Tables); 1982 Index of MERIP Reports. Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1984 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 123) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Migrant Workers. Contents include: Labor Migration in the Arab World by Fred Halliday (with two photos, map "The Global Scale of Labor Migration," six Tables; Footnotes; and topics: Four Types of Arab World Migration; Consequences in the Labor Importing States; Consequences in the Labor Exporting Countries); Egyptian Labor Abroad: Mass Participation and Modest Returns by Robert J. LaTowsky (with four photos, one Table "Egyptians in other Arab states," Footnotes, and topics: A Question of Numbers; Sectoral Gains and Losses; Constraints Limited; No Gold Rush; The Opposition Stays Home; Future Prospects); Interview - Mahmut Baksi: The Immigrant Experience in Sweden; Letter from the West Bank by A Special Correspondent (with photo "An Israeli soldier stands guard in Jerusalem's 'old city'"); Letter from Bangkok by A Special Correspondent. Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical fold to issue; covers show light corner wear.

Magazine. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the November-December 1983 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 119) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] Split. Contents include: The Dilemma of the PLO by Helena Cobban (with two photos and topics: Armed Struggle, State Power; Waiting for Geneva; Shifting Weight; The Rebels' Dead End); Interview - Rashid Khalidi: Behind the Fateh [also: Fatah] Rebellion (with two photos); List of the Fateh Central Committee; List of the PLO Executive Committee; The Mutiny Against [Yasser] Arafat by Eric Rouleau (with photo "In Badawi camp, spring 1983"); Interview - Eqbal Ahmad: Yasser Arafat's Nightmare (with two photos, including "Arafat passing by in Badawi camp"); Palestinian Life at Ground Level by Marie-Christine Aulas (with Table "Palestinian Refugees Registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, June 1982"); Interview - Abd el-Jawad Saleh: "Abu Ammar's [Yasser Arafat] biggest mistake was gambling on the Americans"; Letter from Kabul by Konrad Ege; MERIP Reports 1983 Index. Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; tiny corner creases to inside pages; significant wear along right edge of front cover.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the July-August 1983 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 116) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Israel's Strategy of Occupation. Contents include: Israeli Settlement Policy Today by Peter Demant (with seven photos, map of the West Bank, Footnotes, and topics: The First [Menachem] Begin Government - 1977-1981; The New Begin Government; The Transformation of Gush Emunim; The Hebron Troubles; Yamit [Settlement] and Beirut; Taking Over West Bank Lands; Non-ideological Settlements; The Opposition; Herut [Party] Intransigence; Point of No Return); Interview - Azmi Shu'aibi: "The people have refused to back down" (with his photo); Water and Israel's Occupation Strategy by Joe Stork (with photo, Table "Israeli Water Consumption," and topics: The Background; Conquered Water; Israel and Arab Rivers; the Waters of Lebanon. With sidebar, with two photos: Al-Ouja Fields Dry Up); Egypt Gropes for Political Direction by Roger Owen; Looking for [Anwar] Sadat Square by Judith Tucker. Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; tiny corner creases to lower right page corners.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1984 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 120) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The Middle East after OPEC [Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries]. Contents include: Ten Years After by Joe Stork (with two photos, four Tables, and topics: Spectacular Disarray; Oil and The State; Limits of Development; Washington's Decade); OPEC's Decade: Has It Made a Difference? by Michael Tanzer and Stephen Zorn (with photo, four Tables, and topics: The Producers; State Companies; A Decade After); Restructuring the World Energy Industry by Michael Renner (with photo "A petrochemical plant in Vera Cruz, Mexico," three Tables, one Graph, Footnotes, and topics: Big Oil's New Frontier; Diversification Strategy; Alternative Energy; Undermining OPEC; Lower Prices; OPEC's Predicament); Marxism, the Third World and the Middle East by Maxine Molyneux and Fred Halliday (with photo "A classroom in 'Ain el-Hilweh camp near Sidon, South Lebanon, June 1983"); text of the Hammamat Declaration; Recession Hits Saudi Private Sector by A Special Correspondent. Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; tiny corner creases to inside pages; significant wear along right edge of front cover (and to a lesser extent to the first few inside pages).

Magazine. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1982 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 103) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 40 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The Politics of Religion. Contents include: Who Killed [Anwar] Sadat? by Eric Rouleau (with photo "Lt. Khalid al-Istambuli, wounded in the attack on President Sadat, is carried off by security forces"); Egypt's Islamic Militants by Saad Eddin Ibrahim (with six photos and topics: Meeting the Militants; Ideology of Egypt's Islamic Militants; The Militants and The Brotherhood; Structure of the Militant Groups; Profile of the Militants; Questions of Strategy; Structural Factors. With Footnotes and sidebar "Abdullah Muhammad Ibrahim: Muslim Brotherhood 'Second-in-Command' [excerpt of interview]); Interview - Munir Fasheh: Political Islam in the West Bank; one-page Letter from Israel: Religion, Politics and Archeology by Emmanuel Farjoun; The Politics of Rabbi [Tzvi Yehuda] Kook by David Shaham (excerpt from 'Yediot Ahronot'); Faith and Financing by Adit Zertal (excerpt from 'Ha'aretz'); The Enigma of the Veiled Iranian Woman by Azar Tabari (with two photos and topics: Social Origins of the Newly Employed Women; The Mujahidin and the 'New Muslim Woman'; Politics of the Veil; The False Sisterhood Breaks Apart; The Current State of Women's Struggles; Women's Options in Islamic Society). Mailing label to rear cover; very light vertical bend to issue.

Magazine. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1982 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 102) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Islam and Politics. Contents include: Iraq's Underground Shi'i Movements by Joe Stork (an abridgment of his paper first published in The Middle East Journal; with four photos and topics: The Ranks of the Underground; The Origins of the Da'wah Party; The Regime Responds; Prospects for the Shi'i Underground. With Footnotes and half-page sidebar: "The Significance of Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr"); Religious Ritual and Political Struggle in an Iranian Village by Mary Hooglund (with six photos and topics: Under the Qavams; After Land Reform; The Iranian Revolution; Ritual and Village Politics After the Revolution. With Footnotes); Interview - Mohammed Sid Ahmed: "The masses speak the language of religion to express themselves politically" ("Mohammed Sid Ahmed is an Egyptian journalist and left opposition leader. He is a member of the secretariat of Tagamu', the National Progressive Unionist Party, and is a representative of the party's Marxist component"); 'Ali Shari'ati: Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution by Ervand Abrahamian. Mailing label to rear cover; light sunning to upper edges.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 1983 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 115) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-1/2" and containing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: The Palestinian Dilemma. Contents include: Report from the Occupied Territories by Sarah Graham-Brown (with three photos and topics: Resistance and Negotiation; Political Currents; The Student Movement; New Chief [Shlomo Iliya, Israeli Civil Administration]; Deceiving Prosperity; Men of Property; Village Leagues; Jordan and the PLO; Present Circumstances); Interview - George Hazboun: Palestinian Communists and the National Movement (with two photos); Demographic Consequences of the Occupation by Janet L. Abu-Lughod (with two photos, one Table, Footnotes, and topics: Expulsions and the Stabilization of Population Size; The Third Phase; The Selectivity of Expulsions and Emigrations; Proletarianization of the Population under Occupation; A New State); Interview - Jonathan Kuttab: Danger Signals and Dress Rehearsals for a Palestinian Exodus (with two photos, including "Women after their home was demolished in Beit Sahur, January 1982"); The Lebanon War and the Occupied Territories by Khalil Nakhleh; Special Feature - The Kahan [Commission] Report: Banishing the Palestinian Ordeal by Richard Falk (with photo "After the massacres in Sabra and Shatila" and the following topics: Variants of Consensus; The Language of Terror; The Logic of Repression); The [Kahan] Commission and the Evidence by Uri Avnery; Mossad and the Massacres by Konrad Ege ("The final report of the Kahan Commission shows the extent to which the Lebanese Phalangists and Major Sa'ad Haddad's 'Free Lebanon' forces are little more than hired hands in the eyes of the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] and the intelligence agency, Mossad"); Memoriam: Janet Lee Stevens (which begins, "Janet Lee Stevens died in Beirut at the age of 32, in the United States Embassy bombing on April 18"). Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; short corner crease to rear cover.

Magazine. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1983 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 111) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Rapid Deployment and Nuclear War. Contents include: On the Beach: The Rapid Deployment Force and the Nuclear Arms Race by Christopher Paine (with seven photos, Footnotes, and topics: The RDF: A 'Portable Dienbienphu'; The RDF: 'D' is for 'Dual-Capable'; 'Escalation Dominance': What the MX Means to King Fahd [Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]; Intervention and the Doctrine of Credibility); AirLand Battle Doctrine by Martha Wenger (with photo, three short Tables, topics Live-Fire Exercises, Rapid Deployment and First Strike, Nuclear 'Pre-Clearance,'; and The U.S. Army's New Arsenal: A Sampler); The Era of Super-Violence by Michael T. Klare (with two photos); Current Soviet Policy and the Middle East: A Report by Fred Halliday (with two photos, including "Leonid Brezhnev and Yasser Arafat" and topics: The View from Moscow; Foreign Policy Establishment; Middle East Policy); Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue: Report from the West Bank by Salim Tamari). Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the July-August 1982 issue of issue of MERIP Reports (No. 107) published by MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) out of Washington, D.C. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/8" by 10-5/8" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Special Issue: Egypt in the New Middle East. Contents include: In the Footsteps of [Anwar] Sadat by Judith Tucker and Joe Stork (with two photos and topics: Rebuilding the Cairo-Riyadh Axis; [Husni] Mubarak's Domestic Front); lengthy report Sadat's Egypt: A Balance Sheet by Marie-Christine Aulas (with four photos, four Tables, and topics: [Gamal Abdel] Nasser's Heir; The Crisis of Infitah [Law 43 of 1974]; Capital and Rent; Infitah Capitalism; Regional Dimension; Foreign Aid; Political Life Under Sadat. With Footnotes); Egypt's Debt Problem by Joe Stork (with three Tables); Egypt's Military by Joe Stork (with photo); Foreign Investment in Egypt by Jim Paul; Sadat's Alter Ego by Mohamed Sid-Ahmed (on Osman Ahmed Osman); several book reviews, including "Covering Islam" by Edward W. Said (reviewed by Sarah Graham-Brown). Mailing label to rear cover; light vertical bend to issue; light corner bump.