173 - MERIP

November/December 1991


From the Editors	The Editors
Articles
Gender and Political Change	Barbara Harlow, Julie Peteet
Women, Islam and the State	Deniz Kandiyoti
Women and Public Participation in Yemen	Sheila Carapico
The Egyptian Women’s Health Book Collective	Nadia Farah
Women and Work in Istanbul	Jenny White
Recording “Real Life” in Wadi Zayna	Rosemary Sayigh
Gender, Sexuality and the Iraq of Our Imagination	Anne Norton
New Writing On Women, Politics and Social Change	Sarah J Graham-Brown
Special Reports
The Fall of BCCI
Bush Locks Horns with Shamir	Jeffrey Blankfort

Dangerous Asset	Joel Beinin
Reviews
Graham-Brown, Images of Women	Maya Jaggi
Letters