I. Who’s Knocking On The Door? A Goy. May, 1971 For Hai, whose name in Hebrew means life, life in his Southern Tunisian hometown, Mednine, is hard. He believes that because he is a Jew, he has a hard time keeping steady employment
* Names have been changed to respect certain individuals’ anonymity. May, 1971 The best way to understand the past and present of the Maghreb is to regard it through the prism of the history of its Jews. Among all the races of the Maghreb today,
November 1970 Damascus during Ramadan and while the latest Syrian coup was cooking was subdued. Yet it evoked an air of tense expectation. The outward calm concealed an intense struggle taking place between the civilian Baathist ideologists and the army officers who put and keep
October 1970 Rome, Italy – October 13, 1970. While hundreds of hostages sat steaming in skyjacked airplanes at Revolution Airfield, Jordan, and thousands of Palestinians and Jordanians partook in a nine day slaughter, several Middle East political analysts prepared addresses for the Middle East Institute
Anh Hai’s frequent talks with us were conversational in mood, but one-directional. For the most part he spoke, and we listened, made non-committal comments, or asked questions. Hai’s tone was one of relating self-evident truth, which was exclusive and all-encompassing. It allowed for no alternative
