Cairo — Although sixty percent of Egyptians live and work on the land, the thinking of the great mass of fellahin (peasants) seems a mystery to outsiders and educated Egyptian city dwellers as well. Both supporters of the left and the right in Egypt concede
“I’m from Gaza. What’s the West Bank to me?” — Beirut lawyer “There is something worse than having a West Bank state and that is having nothing.” — PLO official Preface Confronted for the first time in twenty-five years with the real possibility of a
February 27, 1973, New York City On the first of February, 1973, my placid, sweet, pacific lifestyle underwent a significant change. I began my rigorous program of self defense instruction. I am now the possessor of one judo gi, size 3, and my sensei
(abortion campaign in West Germany) West Berlin, January, 1971 Photos used in this article courtesy of Frank-Michael Urban, West Berlin. Sign at legalized abortion rally reads, “Medical men are henchmen of a reactionary sexual politics.” “They say this law is the last wall
It is a time of troubles once again, and for the fourth time in fifty years preventive detention has been imposed in Northern Ireland. The knock on the door that many had long expected began to be heard a couple of hours before dawn on
