Category: Conflict

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The grand synagogue in Tunis, Tunisia was built in the post World War II years and in the last days of the French protectorate when the Jewish community was at its zenith.

Obituary for a People: The Jews of Tunisia I

* 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,

A Ramadan snooze in the cool shade of the Omayyad Mosque.

A Visit to Damascus

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

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An Israeli Thinks About Palestine

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

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Portrait of a Revolutionary, Part II

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

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Race and Racism in Britain

Race is almost as uncomfortable a fact of life in the United Kingdom as in the United States. In 1967 a report, Racial Discrimination in England, sponsored by P.E.P. (Political and economic Planning) provided concise, sophisticated documentation of discrimination in employment, housing and automobile insurance.