162 - MERIP

January/February 1990


From the Editors	The Editors
Articles
Lebanon’s War	Salim Nasr
The Militia Phenomenon	Salim Nasr
Confessional Lines	Fawwaz Traboulsi
“Everyone Misunderstood the Depth of the Movement Identifying with Aoun”	Joe Stork
War in the City	Ahmad Beydoun
It Was Beirut, All Over Again	Etel Adnan
Primer: Lebanon’s 15-Year War, 1975-1990	Martha Wenger
Class Formation in a Civil War	Nazih Richani
‘Akkar Before the Civil War	Michael Gilsenan
“No Forum for the Lebanese People”	irene gendzier
“We Discovered Our Nation When It Was Nearly No More”	Barbara Harlow
Al Miskin	Al Miskin
Reviews
Gender in Hollywood’s Orient	Ella Shohat
Blitzer, Territory of Lies	Jonathan Marshall

Editor’s Bookshelf	Joel Beinin
Letters