Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0940793822 ISBN 13: 9780940793828

Publisher: Interlink Books, 1991

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Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and Director of its New Internationalism Program. Her areas include U.S. unilateralism and empire, the Middle East (particularly Israel-Palestine and Iraq), and US-United Nations relations. She is the author of Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Ending the Iraq War, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power, Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN, and Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism. Bennis appears frequently as a commentator/analyst on U.S. and international television and radio programs, including "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS, the CBS "Morning Show," NPR's "Diane Rehm Show," and many others on CNN, BBC, Fox, CBC, and al-Jazeera TV. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris), TomPaine.com, New York Newsday, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Mother Jones, and many other publications.

Michel Moushabeck, a writer, editor, publisher and musician, and Hiltrud Schulz, a freelance travel photographer, have been hiking together for nearly a decade. They live in Leverett, Massachusetts.

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The editors of this collection of 30 essays have assembled a distinguished cast of dissenting voices, from American democratic socialists like Barbara Ehrenreich to former Arab League ambassador to the U.N. Clovis Maksoud. Said's foreword, which is forthright and even-handed, notes that ignorance runs deep on both sides (the U.S. and the Arab world), and that nowhere in the Gulf region is there serious academic study of the U.S. Several other essays stand out. Bennis ( From Stones to Statehood: The Palestinian Uprising ) argues convincingly that the U.N. essentially served as a rubber stamp for U.S. policy. Israeli activist Stanley Cohen offers a particularly insightful and compassionate evaluation of the reaction of the Israeli peace movement to the war. Even more useful is Laura Flanders's thoughtful dissection of the role of the media, with a telling description of the abdication of responsibility by television journalists who allowed themselves to become cheerleaders for administration policy. A comprehensive chronology is included, as is the text of salient U.N. resolutions. Moushabeck is Middle East editor at Olive Branch.
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The "War for Kuwait" was over before most Americans could blink. In Beyond the Storm, 31 prominent authors argue why it was an unsettling conflict and offer countless reasons for looming uncertainties. The heart of the discourse here is the Arab world. For a majority of the writers, the politics of linkage between the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Arab-Israeli conflict exist, and, no matter how often the proposition was dismissed as fantasy, the reality persuaded them otherwise. The authors conclude that the false analogies made in the press throughout the past year deserve systematic responses. In major essays, Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Yvonne Haddad, Clovis Maksoud, and Hanan Ashrawi, among others, provide these responses and highlight the perceptions of victimized Arabs. For those tired of the same fare, this collection is sure to provide food for thought. Essential for every public library because of its bold contents. --Joseph A. Kechichian, Rand
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Edition details

• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940793822
• ISBN 13: 9780940793828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Bennis Phyllis, Moushabeck Michel