Spanish Anti-Semitism Today

The man at the next table was once a notorious Belgian fascist. The magazine he is reading contains a glowing feature on the life and work of Adolf Hitler.

Franco's Spain & the New Europe

HEADLINES IN the Spanish press H reported cautiously on July 11: "Reorganization of the Spanish government; General Mufioz Grandes named vice-president." Most Anglo-American papers, from the...

Algerian Independence & the Jews

The discussion we present this month grew out of the companion articles on "Algeria & the Fifth Republic" which appeared in our January issue: Ray Alan's "The Political Crisis" and Joseph Barry's "The Moral Crisis." Samuel L. Blumenfeld here comments on both articles; replies by Mr. Alan and Mr. Barry follow.

Political Crisis in France

In between convulsions, France is one of the most conservative countries in Europe.

Uneasy Balance of de Gaulle's Republic:
Left, Right, and Underground

A LITTLE over a year ago in the outskirts of a small southern French town I stopped my car beside a group of four men and a woman to ask a direction. It was a few minutes after ten in the...

Iraq's Impact on the Middle East: The Great Arab Schism
Can Kassem and Nasser Coexist?

IRAQ and Egypt celebrated the anniversaries of the coups which made them both military republics within eight days of one another. The Egyptians, only vaguely aware of what they are supposed...

Les 13 Complots du 13 Mai, by Merry and Serge Bromberger

THE Bromberger brothers' approach to anyone in power is cloyingly sycophantic; and they value their contacts too highly to venture more than a toe or two beyond the orthodoxy of the Defense...

Conqueror's Causeway:
Why the Levant Is Levantine

NORTH from Beirut, the Lebanon foothills leave only a crumpled ribbon of coastal plain; and after five or six miles even this is crushed out. The north-south road, which but for...

Can de Gaulle Check the Gaullists?
The Threat of the Extreme Right

THE bookseller was fondling a stack of bile-yellow paperbacks devoted to the "Jewish problem." They dated from the period 1937-1943 and he had just bought them secondhand from the widow of a...

Iraq After the Coup:
The Pan-Arabs Take Over in Baghdad

ONLY the politically illiterate will charge Gamal Abdel Nasser with the July 14 coup in Iraq, but it is undeniable that a vicious Egyptian-Syrian propaganda campaign had helped create...

The Fourth Republic Abdicates:
Anatomy of the Crisis

"INCAPABLE of living decently," wrote Hubert Beuve-M&y in Le Monde at the end of May, "the Fourth Republic does not know how to die with dignity." "It didn't even die," commented a Gaullist...

Pan-Arabism on the March?: Rival Blocs in the Middle East

THE most powerful political dynamic in Arab history has hitherto been centrifugal-an impulse toward fragmentation and separatism. It is an impulse induced by the very geography of the...

After the Syrian Fireworks
The Powers Inflate a Local Dispute

The Eisenhower Doctrine seems to have been the chief casualty of the recent turmoil brought about by Russian and Syrian charges against Turkey and by the resulting war scare.

New Blocks for Old in the Middle East
Anti-Nasserism Is Not Enough

A discussion of the emergence of the anti-Nasser bloc.

The Sphinx Awakes, by Gerald Sparrow

Jordan: Rise and Fall of a Squirearchy

The future of Jordan is as potentially explosive an issue as any in the Middle East.

Russia Enters the Levant:
The Arab World in Flux

Ray Alan on the Middle East.

Jews and Arabs, by S. D. Goitein

Stirrings in Araby:
Tribal Feuds and World Politics

The Arab world, for whose friendship both West and East are bidding energetically today, is little known in its historical “heartland,” the Arabian Peninsula, an area of desert and thin coastal settlement stretching southward between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

On the Horizon:
The Strange World of the Druzes

In this portrait of the Druzes, a little known exotic Middle Eastern people, some 18,000 of whom live in Israel, Ray Alan suggests that there may be more to the problem of East-West "Communication" than statesmen have supposed.

On the Horizon: “Frenchman, Go Home!”

Ten years ago, in Syria and Lebanon, Arab nationalists used to say to British officers and officials: “Get rid of the French for us and you will earn our eternal gratitude..."

Will the Iraqis Fight for the West?
From the Bagdad Slum, It Looks Dubious

Bagdad has a strangely insubstantial air.

On the Horizon: Ramadan Sundown with Modern Improvements

EVERY self-respecting Moslem town possesses a cannon which is fired daily at sunset during the month of Ramadan. Sundown brings to an end the strict abstinence from food, drink (even water),...

Palace Politics in the Damascus Oasis:
Syria's Equilibrium, as of This Writing

CROSSING the Srian frontier anywhere is always a little hazardous. True, it is only near the Huleh armistice line that one risks being shot at; but Syria's relations with her Arab League...

Lebanon: Israel's Friendliest Neighbor:
A Middle East Microcosm-with a Difference

There was the suddent pregnant hush that falls over most Arab gatherings when Israel is mentioned.

The Three Horsemen of the Arab Wasteland:
Hashish, Bakshish, Maalesh

THERE are three stars on the Syrian flag: one stands for Hashish, one for Bakshish, the third for Maalesh -or so any American or British official in the Near East will assure you. If this...