VOL. XLV

No 5

4 February 2002

ArabColumnists On 11 September Aftermath

(MEES Translations)

Thefollowing is a column by Sausan Sha'ir* (Bahraini) entitled Why We Hate Themwhich was published in the Kuwaiti daily al-Watanon 21 January.

TheInternational Herald Tribune on 9 January published an article byProfessor Marvin Ott on national security in which he answered the mostimportant and most commonly heard question in the US in the aftermath of 11 September,and that is: Why do they hate us? In a...