166 - MERIP

September/October 1990


From the Editors	The Editors
Articles
Absolute Distress	Mark Duffield
The Famine This Time	Gayle Smith
Primer: The Food Gap in the Middle East	Martha Wenger, Joe Stork
Algeria’s Food Security Crisis	Will Swearingen
“Please Don’t Develop Us Any More”	Fantu Cheru
Rolling Back Egypt’s Agrarian Reform	Robert Springborg
Special Reports
Algeria’s Elections Show Islamist Strength	Arun Kapil
A Woman’s Life on an Algiers Stage	Susan Slyomovics
Washington Watch	Joe Stork
Human Rights Briefing	Nabeel Abraham
Al Miskin	Al Miskin

Editor’s Bookshelf	Joel Beinin
Letter
Reviews
Halliday, From Kabul to Managua	Rajan Menon
Botman, Rise of Egyptian Communism	Marsha Pripstein Posusney