Middle East Policy articles from October 1999

Middle East Policy archives from October 1999

SYMPOSIUM: AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.(Transcript)(Panel Discussion)
October 1, 1999... The following is an edited transcript of the nineteenth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on January 28, 1999, in the Russell Senate Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman,...

THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND ZIONISM, 1917-1945: A REEVALUATION.
October 1, 1999... Among the American historians dealing with U.S. relations with Palestine from 1917 to 1945 there is near consensus on the attitudes and actions of the State Department. That consensus is that the personnel in the Department's Division of Near...

THE WEST, MEDITERRANEAN ISLAM AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW BEGINNING.
October 1, 1999... These are not propitious times to attempt to comment objectively on Islam.(1) In the West, Islam has come to be widely identified with terrorism and frequently is assumed to constitute a surrogate, perhaps in tandem with Confucian China, for...

THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE GULF STATES: A GROWING PARTNERSHIP.
October 1, 1999... The European Union (EU) pursues a three-tiered approach with regard to the Arab countries of the Middle East. On a general level, it entered into the so-called Euro-Arab Dialogue with the Arab League. This dialogue has not been very effective...

THE U.S. AND THE GULF: COMMERCIAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES.(Transcript)
October 1, 1999... I enjoyed the last MEED conference in Abu Dhabi in March. At that time, oil prices were at about $10 a barrel. We knew that prices would not last long at that level, and, as usual, history repeated itself. I know that many of you are breathing...

DAYS OF RAGE IN TEHRAN.(Iran)
October 1, 1999... On December 28, 1996, Mohammad Khatami gathered with university students in a courtyard in downtown Tehran to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Ali, one of the holiest figures in Shiite Islam. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the...

IRAN'S FUTURE: CIVIL SOCIETY OR CIVIL UNREST?
October 1, 1999... During six fateful days in mid-July 1999, Iran's theocratic regime witnessed the most daring challenge to its absolutist authority since the 1979 revolution. The open political defiance began as a minor, peaceful march by a couple of hundred...

WHAT ABOUT SYRIA?
October 1, 1999... The following is the edited text of the presentations at the September 30, 1999, meeting of the Sadat Forum at Brookings, cohosted by Richard Haass, vice-president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Shibley...

THE WATER ACCORDS OF OSLO II: AVERTING A LOOMING DISASTER.
October 1, 1999... After years of stalemate and recrimination in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, the Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum of September 4, 1999, has brought new hope that these two peoples can at last bring an end to their 100-year conflict over the...

TUNISIA'S FIRST CONTESTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
October 1, 1999... The following is the edited text ora forum convened by the Middle East Policy Council on October 12, 1999, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. MAMOUN FANDY, assistant professor, Georgetown University One cannot understand...

ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN: THINKING A WAY OUT OF KARABAKH.
October 1, 1999... Hot wars demand attention before cold wars or simmering, potential conflicts. But even as most of the energy of envoys and emissaries concentrates on the Balkans, it may be opportune to look at a crisis less violent at the moment but equally...

In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam.(Review)
October 1, 1999... In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam, by Milton Viorst. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1998. xii + 355 pages, with notes and index. $24.95, hardcover. Milton Viorst, previously on staff at The New Yorker, is...

The Saudi File: People, Power, Politics.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Saudi File: People, Power, Politics, by Anders Jerichow. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.340 pages, with chronology, bibliography and index. $49.95, hardcover. In his page-long introduction, Anders Jerichow, a Danish journalist at...

Oil, God, and Gold: the Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Oil, God, and Gold: the Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings, by Anthony Cave Brown. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. 420 pages, including notes and index. $30.00, hardcover. Early in 1933, the Standard Oil Company of...

Algeria: A Study in Competing Ideologies.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Algeria: A Study in Competing Ideologies Kay Adamson, London and New York: Cassell, 1998. 242 pages, with abbreviations, acronyms, text, bibliography and index. $75.00, hardcover. In January 1992, the officers and bureaucrats of Algeria's...

The Holocaust in American Life.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Holocaust in American Life, by Peter Novick. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 320 pages. $27.00, hardcover. Peter Novick primarily discusses how the Holocaust has been dealt with in the post-war period, particularly at present. He...

Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy, by Kathleen Christison. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. 293 pages. $40.00, hardcover. In half a century of Middle East diplomacy, the Palestinian issue...

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, by Norman G. Finkelstein. New York: Verso, 1995. 243 pages. $19.00, paperback. In Image and Reality, Norman Finkelstein, an adjunct professor of political theory at Hunter College of the...