The Middle East Journal articles from January 2008

The Middle East Journal archives from January 2008

Editor's note.
January 1, 2008... Two countries are each the subject of two articles in this issue: one, Iran, which has dominated the headlines recently, and another, Libya, which has received much less attention of late. In the wake of the recent National Intelligence...

Iran's new Iraq.(effect of the United States' invasion of Iraq on the Persian Gulf)
January 1, 2008... The US invasion of Iraq has revolutionized the strategic architecture of the Persian Gulf in a manner that is still difficult to fully appreciate. Among the relationships that have been dramatically altered by America's move are the ties...

A stable structure on shifting sands: assessing the Hizbullah-Iran-Syria relationship.
January 1, 2008... Iran and Syria were instrumental in the creation of Lebanese Hizbullah 25 years ago, and although all three actors have faced significant outside pressures during that time, their relationship has endured. Yet the relationship has evolved, too,...

Libya's nuclear turnaround: perspectives from Tripoli.
January 1, 2008... This article examines Libya's nuclear rollback in light of sources that have emerged since December 2003. These sources offer new perspectives on the Libyan regime's motives for pursuing nuclear weapons, why it concluded that the effort to...

The changing Libyan economy: causes and consequences.
January 1, 2008... Once the United Nations suspended its sanctions regime in April 1999, Libya began to introduce socioeconomic reforms aimed at liberalizing its economy. Greeted with some skepticism, the liberalization movement gained momentum as Libya first...

From the myth of European Union accession to disillusion: implications for religious and ethnic politicization in Turkey.
January 1, 2008... At the present time, there are no clear outcomes in Turkey's European Union (EU) accession process. By the end of the two years following the rise of the pro-Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) to the government in 2002, Turkey's...

Chronology: July 16, 2007-October 15, 2007.(Arab Israeli conflict)(Chronology)
January 1, 2008... ABBREVIATIONS Al-Jazeera, Aljazeera.net AllAfrica Arab Times, AT Associated Press, AP BBC, www.bbc.co.uk CBS, www.cbs.com CNN, www.cnn.com Dawn Financial Times, FT Forbes The Guardian ...

Islamic Political Radicalism: A European Perspective.(Islamic radicalism)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Islamic Political Radicalism: A European Perspective, ed. by Tahir Abbas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. xiv + 302 pages. Index to p. 306. $100 cloth; $32 paper. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West...

Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change since 1995.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change since 1995, by Isabelle Werenfels. Abingdon, Oxon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2007. xv + 170 pages. Appends. to p. 173. Notes to p. 206. Bibl. to p. 217. Index to p. 229. $120. ...

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2006. xviii + 261 pages. Notes to p. 281. Chron. to p. 287. Maps. to p. 294. Tables. Bibl. to p. 300. Index to p. 313. $27.50. It would be hasty to assume that the book...

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, by Trita Parsi. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 384 pages. $28. Dr. Trita Parsi's Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and...

Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace, by Arang Keshavarzian. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 282 pages. Figures. Maps. Sel. bibl. to p. 297. Index to p. 302. $85. Arang...

Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present, by Nadie Sadig Al-Ali. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii + 271 pages. Notes to p. 280. Refs. to p. 287. Index to p. 292. $108 cloth; $75 paper. Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from...

The Structure of Kurdish Society and the Struggle for a Kurdish State.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Structure of Kurdish Society and the Struggle for a Kurdish State, by Hussein Tahiri. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2007. xiv + 348 pages. Appends. to p. 365. Bibl. to p. 388. Index to p. 396. $45 paper. The Kurds are the...

Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism and French North Africa, 1880-1930.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism and French North Africa, 1880-1930, by Roger Benjamin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. 352 pages. 16 color plates. 123 b/w illust. Bibl. Index. Two analytical "axes" underlie...

Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories, by Loren Lybarger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxiv + 246 pages. Bibl. to p. 255. Index to p. 265. $39.50. ...

The Palestinian Press as a Shaper of Public Opinion 1929-1939: Writing up a Storm.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Palestinian Press as a Shaper of Public Opinion 1929-1939: Writing up a Storm, by Mustafa Kabha. London UK and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xxvii + 271 pages. Appends. to p. 275. Refs. to p. 280. Index to p. 292. $95 cloth; $35...

A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance, by Mary Elizabeth King. New York: Nation Books, 2007. xvi + 347 pages. Appends. to p. 357. Notes to p. 448. Index to p. 464. $16.95 paper. Mary Elizabeth King's...

Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil, by Wallace Stegner. Foreword by Thomas W. Lippman. Vista, CA: Selwa Press, 2007. xxiv + 245 pages. Map. Photos. Gloss. to p. 248. Bibl. to p. 252. Index to p 259. $24.95. "How was it?" In the chapter...

Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide, by Martin Daly. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xix + 316 pages. Maps. Gloss. to p. 320. Notes to p. 348. Bibl. to p. 355. Index to p. 368. $22.95. ...

The Unwelcome Neighbour: Turkey's Kurdish Policy.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Unwelcome Neighbour: Turkey's Kurdish Policy, by Asa Lundgren. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007. viii + 127 pages. Notes to p. 143. Bibl. to p. 156. Index to p. 159. $72.50. This is a concise jargon-free analysis of how...

Globalization and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Old Games, New Rules.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Globalization and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Old Games, New Rules, by Anoushiravan Ehteshami. London, UK and New York: Routledge, 2007. 258 pages, xii + 196 pages. Tables. Notes to p. 228. Sel. bibl. to p. 241. Index to p. 258. $135. ...

The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea, by Steve LeVine. New York: Random House, 2007. xxiv + 399 pages. Chron. Maps. Acknowl. to p. 404. Bibl. to p. 408. Notes to p. 447. Index to p. 470. $27.95. Steve...

Iranian Cinema: A Political History.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Iranian Cinema: A Political History, by Hamid Reza Sadr. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2006. xii + 287 pages. Notes to 291. Index to 303. $85 cloth; $28.95 paper. This book describes how domestic political affairs and Iran's...

(Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... (Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World, by Mamoun Fandy. Westport, CT and London, UK: Praeger Security International, 2007. 143 pages. Notes to p. 160. Index to p. 164. $49.95. Mamoun Fandy's (Un)Civil War of Words...

Negotiating for the Past: Archeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Negotiating for the Past: Archeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941, by James E Goode. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007. xii + 233 pages. Notes to p. 265. Bibl. to p. 208. Index to p. 293. $55 cloth; $22.95...

Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, by Robert Satloff. New York: Public Affairs, 2006. 204 pages. Notes to 227. Bibl. to p. 239. Index to p. 251. $26. On the afternoon of September 11, 2001,...

Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World, by Philip H. Gordon. New York: Times Books, 2007. xviii + 162 pages. Notes to p. 191. Acknowl. to p. 194. Index to p. 203. $24. Philip Gordon's latest book joins the...

Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez. New Haven, CT and London, UK: Yale University Press, 2007. xiii + 218 pages. Notes to p. 264. Works cited to p. 273. Index to p. 287. $26....

Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers.(suicide bombing)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers, by Mohammed Hafez. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2006.75 pages. Appends. to p. 98. Notes to p. 109. Resources for further research to p. 113. Index to p....

The Three Occupied UAE Islands: The Tunbs and Abu Musa.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Three Occupied UAE Islands: The Tunbs and Abu Musa, by Thomas R. Mattair. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2005. x + 440 pages. Notes to p. 554. Bibl. to p. 562. Index to p. 588. 39.50 BP. In many...

Safavid Iran: Rebirth of an Empire.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Safavid Iran: Rebirth of an Empire, by Andrew J. Newman. London, UK: IB Taurus, 2006. xii + 128 pages. Appends. to p. 144. Notes to p. 281. Index. 35 BP. In eight chapters and an epilogue, Andrew J. Nathan aims to offer a new history of...

Psychological Warfare in the Intifada: Israeli and Palestinian Media Politics and Military Strategies.(ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Psychological Warfare in the Intifada: Israeli and Palestinian Media Politics and Military Strategies, by Ron Schleifer. Brighton, UK and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. ix + 192 pages. Appendix to p. 199. Notes to p. 223. Sources...

In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.(ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination, by Gil Z. Hochberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiii + 141 pages. Notes to p. 165. Bibl. to p. 183. Index to p. 192. $35. In this literary...

Victory for Us Is to See You Suffer: In the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis.(ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Victory for Us Is to See You Suffer: In the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis, by Philip C. Winslow. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2007. xxiii + 217 pages. Notes to p. 224. $24.95. Philip C. Winslow, a veteran foreign correspondent...

Historical Dictionary of Iran.(ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Historical Dictionary of Iran [second edition], by John H. Lorentz. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006. lxxi + 368 pages. Chron. Appends. to p. 386. Bibl. to p. 472. Index to p. 478. About the author. $99. This volume provides a...

Tales from the Arab Tribes: The Oral Traditions among the Great Arab Tribes of Southern Iraq.(IRAQ)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Tales from the Arab Tribes: The Oral Traditions among the Great Arab Tribes of Southern Iraq, by C.G. Campbell. London, UK and New York: Kegan Paul, 2007. 242 pages. Notes to p. 252. $212.50. Charles Grimshaw Campbell collected and translated...

The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq.(IRAQ)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq, by Aidan Delgado. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2007. xvii + 224 pages. Acknowledgments to p. 226. Notes to p. 228. $24.95. Aidan Delgado is a Buddhist who spent a year in Iraq...

Israel's Strategic Agenda.(IRAQ)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Israel's Strategic Agenda, ed. by Efraim Inbar. London, UK and New York: Routledge, 2007. xv + 266 pages. Index to p. 275. $125. This wide-ranging volume includes essays by a number of Israel's most influential strategic thinkers. The first...

Kurdish Identity: Human Rights and Political Status.(KURDS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Kurdish Identity: Human Rights and Political Status, ed. by Charles G. MacDonald and Carole A. O'Leary. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007. 262 pages. Appends to p. 288. Notes to p. 314. Bibl. to p. 323. Index to p. 336. $52....

Historical Dictionary of Morocco.(MOROCCO)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Historical Dictionary of Morocco [second edition], by Thomas K. Park and Aomar Boum. Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006. lxxii + 367 pages. Abbrevs. Chron. Figures. Illust. Tables. Maps. Appendix to p. 429. Gloss. to p....

Islamic Art and Archaeology of Palestine.(Art and Architecture)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Islamic Art and Archaeology of Palestine, by Myriam Rosen-Ayalon. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2006. 158 pages. Maps. Figures. Illust. Notes to p. 179. Bibl. to p. 199. Gloss. to p. 204. Index to p. 211. $59 paper. Myriam Rosen-Ayalon's...

Leaving Beirut.(Autobiography and Memoirs)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Leaving Beirut, by Mai Ghoussoub. London, UK and San Francisco, CA: Saqi Books, 2007. 188 pages. $14.95 paper. Mai Ghoussoub's passionate literary memoir of the Lebanese civil war allows the reader a personal look into her life, her...

Oil, Profits, and Peace: Does Business Have a Role in Peacemaking?(CONFLICT RESOLUTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Oil, Profits, and Peace: Does Business Have a Role in Peacemaking? by Jill Shankleman. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007. xiii + 163 pages. Notes to p. 196. Appendix to p. 199. Bibl. to p. 204. Index to p. 234. n.p....

Teen Voices from the Holy Land: Who Am I to You?(CONFLICT RESOLUTION)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Teen Voices from the Holy Land: Who Am I to You? by Mahmoud Watad and Leonard Grob. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. 202 pages. Appends, to p. 220. $19 paper. Teen Voices from the Holy Land mainly consists of the testimonies of 34 Israeli...

Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism.(ECONOMIC CONDITIONS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism, by Timur Kuran. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2006. xviii + 147 pages. Notes to p. 167. Refs. to p. 188. Index to p. 194. $37.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. In Islam...

Censorship in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography.(EDUCATION AND MEDIA)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Censorship in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography, by Mona A. Nsouli and Lokman I. Meho. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006. xi + 122 pages. Indexes to p. 146. $45 paper. In this volume, Mona A. Nsouli and Lokman I. Meho have...

The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East.(EDUCATION AND MEDIA)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East, ed. by Gonul Donmez-Colin. London, UK and New York: Wallflower Press, 2007. xii + 255 pages. Filmography to p. 272. Bibl. to p. 286. Index to p. 292. $80 cloth; $29.50 paper. Donmez-Colin has...

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East.(MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan. New York: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2006. xvii + 264 pages. Maps. Acknowledgments. Bibl. to p. 282. Notes to p. 348. Index to p. 362. $24.95. This beautifully...

The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran.(MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran, ed. by Touraj Atabaki. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2007. xvi + 198 pages. Notes to p. 247. Index to p. 256. $79.95. This work explores the unique and divergent...

Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy.(MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy, by Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. x + 151 pages. Notes to p. 162. Gloss. to p. 164. Bibl. to p. 170. Index to p. 179. $19.95. Peter...

Innocence Lost: Islamism and the Battle over Values and World Order.(MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Innocence Lost: Islamism and the Battle over Values and World Order, by Lars Erslev Andersen. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007. 178 pages. Bibl. to p. 186. Notes to p. 194. 24.99 euros. In this well-researched and engaging...

Secularism Confronts Islam.(PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Secularism Confronts Islam, by Olivier Roy. Trans. by George Holoch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xiii + 102 pages. Notes to p. 115. Index to p. 128. $24.50. In this cogent work, Roy debunks the myth that Islam cannot be...

Bad Faith: The Dangers of Religious Extremism.(PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Bad Faith: The Dangers of Religious Extremism, by Neil J. Kressel. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. 265 pages. Notes to p. 311. Index to p. 327. $26. Adding to what has become one of the 21st century's most heated debates, Bad Faith offers...

The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire.(PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire, ed. by Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 312 pages. Illust. Bibl. to p. 352. Index to p. 363. $80 cloth; $27.99 paper. The...

The Long March to the West: Twenty-First Century Migration in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Area.(SOCIAL CONDITIONS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Long March to the West: Twenty-First Century Migration in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Area, ed. by Michel Korinman and John Laughland. London, UK and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell Academic, 2007. xiv + 425 pages. $95 cloth; $35...

Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women, 1800-1948.(WOMEN)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women, 1800-1948, by Nancy L. Stockdale. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007. xi + 196 pages. Notes to p. 220. Bibl. to p. 240. Index to p. 246. $59.95. In this study, Stockdale...