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—Voices from the Sensible Center— Interpreting the Middle
East for North Americans— Current Affairs 2 A Chat About Chad—Humphrey thinks we ought to be getting all gung-ho about stopping Qadhafi in Chad. We could get more interested if the Administration were not trying to stop him for all the wrong reasons. 4 Sudan: Oil Spurs Investment—Oil is a useful commodity for its own sake, in a developing country like Sudan. But it also has spinoff value, when foreign investors think it will put the country in a better position to pay its bills. 5 Lobby Activities—An agreement reached recently between the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and a New York publisher should please Arab Americans—since it will give some of them a voice in selecting future books on the Middle East. For their part, some pro-Israel groups have been working to beef up support for Israel on America's campuses, and have organized seminars and trips to Israel to help achieve that goal. Regular Features 2 Editorial—Israelis used to scoff at Lebanon's excuses for not being able to keep order in their country. Now, we are hearing the very same excuses from the Israelis—for their failure to keep order in the Lebanese territory they control. We give two examples. 6 Facts For Your Files—A Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations 7 Book Review—If you're looking for a scholarly book on modern Oman, read Frank Clements's Oman, The Reborn Land. Our reviewer believes it fills in many chinks even in the knowledge of specialists about Oman's early days, and also gives you a play-by-play of that country's rapid development during the past dozen years. 8 Personality—Sometimes a new organization needs an extra push to give it momentum. And that's just what the Arab American Cultural Foundation got when it hired a young Arab American woman, Claudette Shwiry, to be its executive director a year ago. |