163 - MERIP

March/April 1990


From the Editors	The Editors
Articles
North Africa Faces the 1990s	Joe Stork
Algeria’s Facade of Democracy	Nabeel Abraham
Chadli’s Perestroika	Rachid Tlemcani
State and Gender in the Maghrib	Mounira Charrad
Tunisia’s Uncertain Future	Fred Halliday
Western Sahara Conflict Impedes Maghrib Unity	Yahia Zoubir
Toward a World Literature?	Miriam Rosen
Al Miskin	Al Miskin
Special Reports
The Lesson of Romania
Human Rights Briefing
Report from Paris: The Kurdish Conference	Sami Zubaida
Hearts and Minds in Kurdistan	Aliza Marcus

Editor’s Bookshelf	Joel Beinin
Reviews
Sacrilegious Discourse	Hedi Abdel-Jaouad
Abrahamian, Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin	Mansour Farhang
Karsh, The Soviet Union and Syria	Fred H. Lawson