The Sorrow of Lebanon
Issue focuses on the uprooted people of Lebanon and a list of donor organizations that are helping them.
The Arab World: A New Economic Order
This survey of the business environment in the Middle East is by Youssef Ibrahim, a business reporter for The New York Times, who has been covering the region since 1973.
The Yemen Arab Republic: From Behind the Veil
Alan Klaum, an international consultant on the Middle East and Asia, looks at the history, culture, and politics of Yemen, and the problems it faces.
The New Israeli Law: Will It Doom the Christian Mission in the Holy Land?
Presbyterian leader and AMEU director L. Humphrey Walz examines the new Israeli “Anti-Missionary Law” passed by the Israeli Parliament on December 27, 1977. It makes it an offense—punishable by five…
The Palestinians
Includes: “A People Scattered, Bewildered and Divided,” by James Markham; “Looking at Reality,” by Anthony Lewis; “Palestinians Cling to a Vision of a Homeland,” by John Darnton, and “The P.L.O.…