210 - MERIP

Spring 1999

Middle East Report 210 measures the impact of structural adjustment programs and other neoliberal economic reforms.


Editorial (Spring 1999)	The Editors
Up Front
Letter (Spring 1999)	Iris Glosemeyer, Iris Glosemeyer
“The Bombing Has Started Again”	Kathy Kelly
Shootout in the Horn of Africa	Dan Connell
Satellite Television and Development in the Middle East	Naomi Sakr
Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing	Celia Rothenberg
Burj al-Barajna Dispatch	Reem Kelani
Articles
Reform or Reaction?	Karen Pfeifer, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Steve Niva, Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Controlling Capital, Disciplining States	Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Alternatives to Neoliberalism	Steve Niva
Economic Restructuring in the Middle East	Eleanor Abdella Doumato
The Working Class and Peasantry in the Middle East	Joel Beinin
How Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan and Even Egypt Became IMF “Success Stories” in the 1990s	Karen Pfeifer
Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires	Timothy Mitchell
Labor and the Challenge of Economic Restructuring in Iran	Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Egyptian Privatization	Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Structural Adjustment and Rural Poverty in Tunisia	Stephen King
Reviews
The Palestinian Economy: Between Imposed Integration and Voluntary Separation	Emma Murphy
Women and the Political Process in Twentieth Century Iran	Shiva Balaghi
The Social History of Labor in the Middle East	Christopher Alexander
In Memoriam
Alternative Information Center Staffers	Geoff Hartman