Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East

U.S. Loan Guarantees, Israel and the Intifada

7 Will Technology-Stealing Charges Alter the U.S.-Israeli Relationship?

9 Israeli Occupation Authorities: The Mideast's Most Totalitarian Regime

11 The Balfour Declaration's Legacy

12 The Neoconservatives: A Last Hurrah All Over Again

18 Skepticism About Israel Accompanies Opposition to Loan Guarantees

30 After Winter's Despair, The Poppies Return

31 Seeing the Light: Holy Land, 1929

33 Peace Talks Slated to Continue

34 The Ultimatum That Causes Stir and Applause

39 Cutting Bush Down to Size: How Israel Gets Its Way in the U.S. Media

47 The Israel-China Rapprochement

U.S. Congress and the 1992 Elections

14 Contests Clarify as Candidates Dwindle

15 Loan Guarantees: "The Choice Is Israel's"

16 Israel's Request for Unconditional Loan Guarantees is Unprecedented

20 House Voting Record for 1990-91

Special Reports

19 Violence Between Kurds and Security Forces Escalates in Turkey

42 Saudi Arabia's New Basic Law

44 Opposition Leader Charges Iran Backing Algerian Islamists

45 The Subcontinent: Nuclear Proliferation Casts Ominous Shadow

46 Central Asia: New Competition for an Ancient Muslim Heartland

49 Who's Right in the U.S. and U.K. Dispute with Libya over the Bombing of Pan Am 103? -Two Views: Sen. James M. Jeffords and Dr. Francis A. Boyle

52 Armenia vs. Azerbaijan: Minor Challenge for the New World Order or the Beginning of a Christian-Muslim Holy War?

Departments

5 Letters to the Editor

35 Personality

36 Media Myopia

38 In the Public Prints

41 Maghreb Mirror

43 Canada Calling

48 United Nations Report

51 Facts for Your Files

54 Quatsch Watch

55 Other People's Mail

59 Focus on Jews and Israel

60 Middle East Marketplace

61 California Chronicle

63 Other Voices

68 Arab-American Activism

69 Human Rights

70 Science Watch

70 Mideast Ecology Notes

72 Cartoons from the Arab Press. . . and from an Israeli Point of View

74 Issues in Islam

75 Religion

77 Book Reviews

79 AET Book Club Catalog

87 Issues in the News

98 Bulletin Board

99 Publishers' Page