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Editors' preface: A noted historian of the Middle East has said the following about the legacy of scholars who devoted their careers to the study of the region: The giants of the recent past tend to be largely forgotten as soon as they are dead if not before, especially if what they have written isn't what is now considered fashionable or central … They are criticized when they are in error, but their achievements are forgotten.[1] While this is largely true in the English-speaking countries, it is not true in France, where a few French "giants" of Islamic and Arab...

January 18, 2003 A forgotten war that is bringing terror to our streetsBen MacintyreAs a rule of thumb, the French media reported massacres in Algeria’s long-running civil war if the dead numbered more than 20; in Britain, the death toll had to reach triple figures or involve a spectacular atrocity by the Islamic guerrillas, such as the annihilation of an entire village, before it was reported. In France, the apparently endless cycle of violence in its former colony received limited coverage. In Britain it had little or none. Few foreign journalists got into Algeria; those that did found reporting frustrating...

"Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with each other, can bring America to its knees. The U.S. regime is very weak, and we are witnessing this weakness from close up." Fidel Castro, during his tour of Iran, Syria and Libya. Agence France Press, May 10, 2001 CASTRO AND TERRORISM, A CHRONOLOY by Eugene Pons with a foreword by Jaime Suchlicki Institute for Cuban &Cuban-American Studies Occasional Paper Series September 2001 FOREWORD Since 1948 when, as a young student, Fidel Castro participated in the violence that rocked Colombian society and distributed anti-U.S. propaganda, he has been guided by two objectives: a commitment ...