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December 2001/January 2002

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. Khaled Abou El Fadl examines the the place of tolerance in Islam. Randall Curb on Paula Fox; Stephen Burt reviews an Anthology of Twentieth-Century Irish and British Poetry, fiction by Manini Nayar, poetry by Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Dorothea Tanning, and Andrew Zawacki; microreviews, and more.

 

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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
The Place of Tolerance in Islam
On reading the Qur’an—and misreading it
Khaled Abou El Fadl
What Comes after Welfare Reform?
How we can ensure economic security for all Americans
J. Larry Brown and Larry W. Beeferman
Fiction
Home Fires
Winner of the Ninth Annual Short Story Contest
Manini Nayar
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Catherine Wagner
Introduced by Rae Armantrout
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
Boundary Fencing and Telstra Wire
Coral Hull
Head
Peter Sacks
Press Conference (January 9)
David Lehman
On Film
Absurd Humanism
Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský’s Divided We Fall
Alan A. Stone

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