Professors Lockman (Harvard) and Beinin (Stanford) are two Jewish members of the editorial board of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), which prepared this indispensable anthology of poetry , eye- witness accounts, analysis and primary source documents from 32 contributors. Intifada is at once a history book, a reference anthology, and an activist’s handbook. Issues that are often avoided as too complex are brought together here in diverse forms a ppealing to different minds: academic, historical, narrative, poetic.