August 1989 Table of Contents

—Voices from the Sensible Center—

Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East

Special Reports: Changing Congress?

5 Intifada Challenges Congress

6 A "Big One" in US-Israeli Relations

15 Don't Try to "Outsmart" Shamir

50 New Winds Blowing in Congress

Iran After Khomeini

7 Rafsanjani Closes on Power and Problems

8 Words To Remember: Ayatollah's Death

9 US Errors Brought Khomeini's Wrath

10 Time for a Hero?

US Mideast Policy

11 US Condemns Chinese But Funds Israeli Repression

12 Should Aid to Israel Be Cut?—Four Views

14 A Soviet View of US-USSR Mideast Cooperation

Middle East Update

16 West Bank: Bethlehem School Closings

17 Jordan: Hussein Eases Press Restraints

18 Iraq: Looking For US Trade and Technology

19 Türkiye: Constitutional Changes and the EC

Departments

4 Letters to the Editor

20 Public Opinion

21 Personality

22 The Other Side of the Coin

23 Human Rights

23 Canada Calling

24 Trade and Finance

25 Religion and the Middle East

25 Islam in America

26 Jews and Israel

27 Arab-American Activism

28 Other People's Mail

30 Other Voices: Coping in Gaza;
—40 Years of Israeli Spying;
—Education as a Crime

34 Issues in the News

35 Chronology of US-Mideast Relations

38 Book Reviews:
—Zionism's Hidden History;
—Syrian Short Stories

39 AET Book Club Catalog

48 Publishers' Page

49 Bulletin Board

49 Archeology

25 August 1989

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