Middle East Research and Information Project: Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

November/December 1987

Middle East Report 149 surveys the protections accorded to key freedoms by various states in the region and finds that rights are mostly honored in the breach.

Table of Contents

Articles
The Middle East and Human Rights
James Paul, Joe Stork
Disaster Area
Naseer Aruri
Interview with ‘Abd al-Nur ‘Ali Yahya
The Trial of Khamis Chamari
Dirk Vandewalle
Turkey: Reading the Small Print
John Mepham
Torture in Turkey
Martha Wenger
“They Say There Is Democracy in This Country?”
Altan Yalpat
An Unusual Hunger Strike in Istanbul
“The Lion’s Right to Roar in His Cage”
Joe Stork
“A Policeman on My Chest, A Scissor in My Brain”
A Special Correspondent
Police Riot in Yarmuk
Joe Stork
Prison, Gender, Praxis
Marilyn Booth
Document: Testimony of a Syrian Censor

Special Reports
Germany’s Greens and Israel
Diana Johnstone

In Memoriam
Naji al-‘Ali Remembered
Joan Mandell

Reviews
Avishai, The Tragedy of Zionism
Moshé Machover
Recent Films
Miriam Rosen
Books on Lebanon
Carolyn L. Gates
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