The Middle East Journal articles from January 2001

The Middle East Journal archives from January 2001

Editor's Note.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... This issue provides, I hope, a veritable smorgasbord of food for thought. The articles cover a wide range of subjects and countries. Some are as timely as the headlines, and others look back over some of the men and myths that have formed the...

Re-Thinking the Islamic Republic: A `Conversation' with Ayatollah Hossein `Ali Montazeri.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Ayatollah Hossein `Ali Montazeri, a high-ranking political and religious cleric, lies at the center of the conflict now raging over religious interpretation in Iran. Once named to succeed Ayatollah Khomeini, Montazeri has been under house...

A Practical Line: The Line of Withdrawal from Lebanon and its Potential Applicability to the Golan Heights.
January 1, 2001... This article examines how the United Nations created a "line of withdrawal" to confirm the departure of Israeli forces from Lebanon. The process by which this line --known popularly as the "Blue Line" -- came into being was controversial...

Bourguiba and Bourguibism Revisited: Reflections and Interpretation.
January 1, 2001... Habib Bourguiba's political career spanned six decades, roughly half as leader of the Tunisian nationalist movement and half as President of independent Tunisia. A portrait of his leadership style, relying largely on his own statements, show...

Russian Policy Toward the Middle East: The Yeltsin Legacy and the Putin Challenge.
January 1, 2001... Given its greatly weakened geopolitical position after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow has had to reorient its foreign policy. Displaying increasing concern about the newly independent states of Central Asia and the TransCaucasus,...

The Political Mythology of the Battle of Karameh.
January 1, 2001... The March 1968 battle of Karameh was a conflict with limited military importance fought primarily between the Israelis and Jordanians with some Palestinian guerrilla participation. Despite the limited guerrilla role, this battle, nevertheless,...

Chronology.
January 1, 2001... July 16, 2000-October 15, 2000 ABBREVIATIONS FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Report--available from the National Technical Information Service, World News Connection on the world wide web at http://wnc.fedworld.gov....

State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-Seeking and Failed Development.(Review)
January 1, 2001... State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-Seeking and Failed Development, by Bradford L. Dillman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. xii + 136 pages. Notes to p. 137. Refs. to p. 155. Index to p. 167. Tables. Abbrevs. $55. ...

Sacred Landscape: the Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Sacred Landscape: the Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948, by Meron Benvenisti. Tr. by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2000. ix + 340 pages. Notes to p. 352. Index to p. 366. $35....

Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran, by Mohammad G. Majd. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000. viii + 351 pages. Appends to p. 371. Notes to p. 395. Gloss. to p. 398. Index to p. 415. n.p. This book is a...

State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity, by Marc Lynch. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xii + 270 pages. Notes to p. 317. Index to p. 327. $49.50 cloth; $18.50 paper. Within the field...

Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait, by Mary Ann Tetreault. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xv + 238 pages. Notes to 282. Bibl. to 298. Index to 309. $18.50 paper. In most Arab countries, there is...

Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996, by Calvin H. Allen and W. Lynn Rigsbee, II. London: Frank Cass, 2000. xix + 227 pages. Appends. to p. 236. Bibl. to p. 244. Index to p. 251. $57.50. The Sultanate of Oman has...

The Palestinian Hamas.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Palestinian Hamas, by Shaul Mishal and Avraham Sela. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xi + 171 pages. Appends. to p. 199. Notes to p. 226. Bibl. to p. 235. Index to p. 244. n.p. This work makes a significant and long overdue...

Demographic Developments and Population Policies in Ba'thist Syria.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Demographic Developments and Population Policies in Ba'thist Syria, by Onn Winckler. Brighton, UK and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. xv + 158 pages. Notes to p. 183. Appends. to p. 187. Bibl. to p. 208. Index to p. 218. $100. ...

A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States, by Heinz Kramer. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. xv + 248 pages. Notes to p. 293. Index to p. 304. $18.95. Heinz Kramer has accomplished the impossible: he...

Dimensions of Western Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Dimensions of Western Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey, by Ekrem Tatolu and Keith W. Glaister. London and Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000. xvi + 181 pages. Append. to p. 186. Bibl. to p. 205. Index to p. 211. $67.50. Couched strictly...

Turkey Today: A Nation Divided over Islam's Revival.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Turkey Today: A Nation Divided over Islam's Revival, by Marvine Howe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. xv + 284 pages. Notes to p. 295. Sel. bibl. to p. 300. Index to p. 310. $26. This essay comes up with two diametrically opposed...

Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration, by Andrew Davison. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. viii + 196 pages. Append. to p. 203. Notes to p. 242. Bibl. to p. 264. Index to p. 270. $37.50. Andrew...

The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, by Abbas Milani. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2000. xvii + 399 pages. Notes to p. 383. Index to p. 399. $29.95. Amir 'Abbas Hoveyda lived in revolutionary...

Scattered Like Seeds: A Novel.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Scattered Like Seeds: A Novel, by Shaw J. Dallal. With a Foreword by John B. Harcourt and Introduction by Muhammad Hallaj. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xvii + 335 pages, n.p. It is good that Shaw Dallal identifies as a...

The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature, by Kamran Talattof. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xi + 181 pages. Notes to p. 218. Bibl. to p. 233. Index to p. 250. n.p. The Politics of Writing in...

Palestine: A Twice-Promised Land? Volume 1: The British, the Arabs & Zionism, 1915-1920.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Palestine: A Twice-Promised Land? Volume 1: The British, the Arabs & Zionism, 1915-1920, by Isaiah Friedman. London and New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000. lxxvii + 282 pages. Notes to 363. Appends. to p. 376. Index to p. 411....

A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters, and History.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters, and History, by Bernard Lewis. New York: Random House, 2000. xxv + 428 pages. Appends. to p. 441. Index to p. 466. $35. The premise assumed in much of Professor Lewis' scholarly work--that...

Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism, ed. by Derek Hopwood. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000. x + 204 pages. $65. This slim volume consists of ten essays, each of which was originally presented as one of the annual George Antonius lectures at...

Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948, by Naomi Shepherd. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xiv + 250 pages. Notes to p. 282. Index to p. 290. $28. Over the past 30 years, literally hundreds of books and...

Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East, 1917-1919.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East, 1917-1919, by Matthew Hughes. London: Frank Cass, 1999. xvi + 163 pages. Notes to p. 189. Bibl. to p. 213. Index to p. 224. $57.50. Numerous studies of the First World War have focused on the...

Islam in America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Islam in America, by Jane I. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xvi + 203 pages. Chron. to p. 207. Notes to p. 214. Gloss. to p. 218. Resources to p. 226. Index to p. 251. $18.50 paper. Introductions to Islam are abundant....

Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, by Eleanor A. Doumato. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Illust. xii + 233 pages. Append. to p. 243. Notes to p. 283. Bibl. to p. 303. Index to p. 312. $45...

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. by Lila Abu-Lughod. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. ix + 285 pages. Notes to p. 287. Contribs. to p. 290. Index to p. 300. $55 cloth; $16.95 paper. To do...

Recent Publications.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey, by Ahmad S. Moussalli. Lanham, MD and London, 1999. xxvii + 312 pages. Sel. bibl. to p. 400. $75. This book provides...

Bibliography of Periodical Literature.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Note: The Bibliography is intended to present a selective listing of periodical material dealing with the Middle East since the rise of Islam.(*) The material included covers Muslim Spain and the Ottoman Balkans, Afghanistan, the Arab world,...

Communications.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The JOURNAL welcomes comments from its readers. All communications should be addressed to the Editor and bear the full name and address of the writer. A selection of those received will be published periodically in these columns. When a comment...