Beyond the storm : a Gulf crisis reader / edited by Phyllis Bennis and Michel Moushabeck ; foreword by Edward Said ; introduction by Eqbal Ahmad.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-407) and index.

Thoughts on a war: ignorant armies clash by night / Edward W. Said -- Portent of a new century / Eqbal Ahmad -- Iraq: years of turbulence / Michel Moushabeck -- From regionalism to nation-state: a short history of Kuwait / Hala Fattah -- The crisis in the Gulf: why Iraq invaded Kuwait / Bishara A. Bahbah -- the battle is joined / Steve Niva -- After the cold war: U.S. middle east policy / Noam Chomsky -- The Panama paradigm / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Countdown for a decade: the U.S. build-up for war in the Gulf / Sheila Ryan -- U.S. aid to Israel: funding occupation in the aftermath of the Gulf War / Jeanne Butterfield -- False consensus: George Bush's United Nations / Phyllis Bennis -- The warrior culture / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Peactime militarism: an epidemic disorder / Jack O'Dell -- The storm at home: the U.S. anti-war movement / Max Elbaum -- Restricting reality: media mind-games and the war / Laura Flanders -- The Arab world in the "new world order" / Clovis Maksoud -- The Kurds: an old crisis at a new moment / Clovis Maksoud.

The politics of linkage: the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Gulf War / Ibrahim Abu-Lughod -- The other occupation: the Palestinian response / Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi -- The Gulf Crisis and the economy in the occupied territories / Samir Hulaileh -- From the sealed room: Israel's peace movement during the Gulf War / Stanley Cohen -- Israel and the Gulf War: a view from the Israeli peace movement / Mordechai Bar-On -- Jordan responds to the Gulf Crisis / Mustafa B. Hamarneh -- What choice did Egypt have? / Sherif Hetata -- Operation Desert Sheild/Desert Storm: the Islamist perspective / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Oil and the Gulf Crisis / Michael Tanzer -- Bushbacking: Britain goes to war / Paul Rogers -- Lost illusions: Europe's peace movement / Daniel Cirera -- South Asia in the wake of the Gulf War: the Pakistan example / Talat Rahman, Lyman Baker -- Human rights and the Gulf Crisis: the verbal strategy of George Bush / Naseer Aruri -- For generations to come: the enviromental catastrophe / Penny Kemp -- Desert sin: a post-war journey through Iraq / Louise Cainkar.