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The Case for Binationalism

A forum on a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict with Lama Abu-Odeh, Helena Cobban, Leonard Fein, Louis Michael Seidman, Ian S. Lustick, and others. Randall Curb on Paula Fox; fiction by Manini Nayar, poetry by Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Dorothea Tanning, and more.

 

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NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM

 

Forum: The Case for Binationalism

Lama Abu-Odeh

 

With responses from Helena Cobban, Leonard Fein, Louis Michael Seidman, Ian S. Lustick, Ebrahim Moosa, Efraim Karsh, Jerome M. Segal, and Salim Tamari.

 

NEW FICTION FORUM

 

The Territory of Trauma

Joyce Hackett

 

Paula Fox: Poor George; Desperate Characters; The Widow’s Children

Randall Curb

 

FICTION

 

Ninth Annual Short Story Contest Winner: Home Fires

Manini Nayar

 

ESSAYS

 

The Place of Tolerance in Islam

Khaled Abou El Fadl

 

What Comes After Welfare Reform?

J. Larry Brown and Larry W. Beeferman

 

On Film: Absurd Humanism

Alan A. Stone

 

POETRY

 

Sound and Sentience

Nathaniel Mackey

 

From the Book of the Boot

Jeanne Marie Beaumont

 

Fortune Cookies

Dorothea Tanning

 

Of a Pressing Nature

Geoffrey G. O’Brien

 

Ascension Provisos 1–5

Andrew Zawacki

 

Poet’s Sampler: Catherine Wagner

Rae Armantrout

 

Boundary Fencing and Telstra Wire

Coral Hull

 

Head

Peter Sacks

 

Press Conference (January 9)

David Lehman

 

REVIEWS

 

Poetry

Anthology of Twentieth-Century Irish and British Poetry, edited by Keith Tuma

Stephen Burt

 

If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000

Ann Lauterbach

 

Lyn Hejinian and Bruce Andrews

Brian Kim Stefans

 

Prose

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir

Susan Slyomovics

 

Microreviews

Forum 

The Case for Binationalism
WHY ONE STATE—LIBERAL AND CONSTITUTIONALIST—MAY BE THE KEY TO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
LAMA ABU-ODEH
RESPONSES FROM HELENA COBBAN, LEONARD FEIN, LOUIS MICHAEL SEIDMAN, IAN S. LUSTICK, EBRAHIM MOOSA, EFRAIM KARSH, JEROME M. SEGAL, AND SALIM TAMARI. LAMA ABU-ODEH REPLIES.

Essays
On reading the Qur’an—and misreading it
Khaled Abou El Fadl
How we can ensure economic security for all Americans
J. Larry Brown and Larry W. Beeferman
Fiction
Winner of the Ninth Annual Short Story Contest
Manini Nayar
Poetry
Introduced by Rae Armantrout
Nathaniel Mackey
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Dorothea Tanning
Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Andrew Zawacki
Coral Hull
Peter Sacks
David Lehman
On Film
Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský’s Divided We Fall
Alan A. Stone

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