The Middle East Journal articles from June 2001

The Middle East Journal archives from June 2001

Editor's Note.(Islamist movements)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2001... Readers of The Middle East Journal presumably do not need to be reminded of the complexities of our region. While the agonizing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has tended to monopolize the general media, we are aware of the many...

Towards Autonomy? The Islamist Movement's Quest For Control of Islamic Institutions in Israel.
June 22, 2001... From origins as a small clandestine association, the Islamist movement in Israel grew into a major grassroots organization with political representation at the municipal and national levels by the late 1990s. The movement has been particularly...

The Tariqa on a Landcruiser: The Resurgence of Sufism in Yemen.
June 22, 2001... The article examines the resurgence of Sufi-oriented religious movements in contemporary Yemen with special reference to the province of Hadramawt. One such movement, centered in the city of Tarim, has become particularly prominent and popular...

The Ineffective Role of the US in the US-Israeli-Syrian Relationship.
June 22, 2001... Using as its starting point the Gulf War (1990-91), this article examines the US-Israeli-Syrian triangular relationship to see what pattern or patterns emerge and what changes these patterns have produced in American foreign policy towards the...

Globalization and the Internet: Comparing the Middle Eastern and Malaysian Experiences.
June 22, 2001... Globalization and modernity are intertwined, so that efforts to modernize forms of education, commerce, and government are all linked to the new modes of globalized communication and their mastery. This also implies adopting international...

Deepening the Melting Pot: Arab-Americans at the Turn of the Century.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... The Arab-American population grew by 42% in the 1980s, reaching over one million in 1990 (although less conservative estimates have put it at around 2.5 million). Arab-Americans are increasingly diverse in national origin and more likely to be...

Chronology.
June 22, 2001... January 16, 2001-April 15, 2001 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....

No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam.(Review)
June 22, 2001... No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam, by Geneive Abdo. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 200 pages. Notes to p. 207. Bibl. to p. 214. Index to p. 223. $25. This book is important to scholars and,...

Egypt During the Sadat Years.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Egypt During the Sadat Years, by Kirk J. Beattie. New York and Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Publishers, 2000. xi + 281 pages. Notes to p. 320. Appendix to p. 325. Bibl. to p. 333. Index to p. 340. $49.95. This work is a sequel to the author's...

The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism, by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xvii + 221 pages. Gloss. to p. 232. Notes to p. 257. Bibl. to p. 273. Index to p. 292. $49.95 cloth. $19.95 paper....

Takeover in Tehran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Takeover in Tehran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture. by Massoumeh Ebtekar (as told to Fred A. Reed). Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2000. 243 pages. Appends. to p. 246. Notes to p. 256. $14.95 paper. Massoumeh Ebtekar was...

Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder. The political economy of trade in eighteenth-century Basra.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder. The political economy of trade in eighteenth-century Basra, by Thabit A.J. Abdullah. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. 120 pages. Notes to 155. Bibl. to 170. Index to 180. n.p. This short...

A History of Iraq.(Review)
June 22, 2001... A History of Iraq, by Charles Tripp. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv + 284 pages. Chron. Illust. Maps. Notes to p. 293. Bibl. to p. 299. Further reading to p. 303. Index to p.311. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Charles...

Immigrants & Bureaucrats: Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Immigrants & Bureaucrats: Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center, by Esther Hertzog. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. xxviii + 195 pages. Bibl. to p. 200. Index to p. 204. n.p. In a famous and oft-quoted remark, the American...

Best Brother: The Identity Journey of Ethiopian Immigrant Soldiers.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Best Brother: The Identity Journey of Ethiopian Immigrant Soldiers, by Malka Shabtay. Tel Aviv: Cherikover, 1999 (Hebrew) 205 pages. Tables to 213. Notes to 223. Bibl. to 240. n.p. In a famous and oft-quoted remark, the American historian...

The Creation of the New Jew: the Sabra.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Creation of the New Jew: the Sabra, by Oz Almog. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 2000. xv + 266 pages. Notes to p. 293. Gloss. to p. 298. Bibl. to p. 300. Index to p. 313. $35. The "Sabras,"...

From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of Zionism.(Review)
June 22, 2001... From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of Zionism, by Amnon Rubinstein. Foreword by Ehud Barak. Preface by Arthur Hertzberg. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 2000. xiii + 272 pages. Index to p. 283. About the author. $32.95. Zionism...

The Management of Islamic Activism: Salafis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and State Power in Jordan.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Management of Islamic Activism: Salafis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and State Power in Jordan, by Quintan Wiktorowicz. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. xi + 153 pages. Notes to p. 179. Bibl. to p. 197. Index to p. 205....

State, Society and Land in Jordan.(Review)
June 22, 2001... State, Society and Land in Jordan, by Michael R. Fishbach. Leiden, Boston and Koln: Brill, 2000. xvii + 212 pages. Bibl to p. 225. Index to p. 236. Illus. n.p. One problem for anyone writing about the Fertile Crescent after World War I is...

Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence, by Eyal Zisser. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. vii + 245 pages. Notes to p. 277. Bibl. to p. 290. Index to p. 297. $59.50. The history of Lebanon in the first half of the 20th century is no...

Les Rumeurs dans la guerre du Liban (Rumors in the Lebanese War).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Les Rumeurs dans la guerre du Liban (Rumors in the Lebanese War), by Fadia Nassif Tar Kovacs. Paris, CNRS Editions, 1998. 352 pages. Index of names to p. 354. Bibl. to p. 365. Table of contents to p. 372. n.p. Few who have lived and worked...

Turkey's Transformation and American Policy.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Turkey's Transformation and American Policy, ed. by Morton Abramowitz. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2000. vii + 266 pages. Notes to p. 281. Index to p. 295. Contribs. to p. 298. $24.95. This edited volume is an excellent overview...

The Quest for Peace between Israel and the Palestinians.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Quest for Peace between Israel and the Palestinians, by Haig Khatchadourian. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. xiv + 163 pages. Index to p. 169. $29.95 paper. This book is a welcome addition to a long list of books written about the...

The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, by Gershom Gorenberg. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore: The Free Press, 2001. 250 pages. Notes to 267. Index to 275. $25. A belief in the End of Time has...

Betrayal of Palestine: The Story of George Antonius.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Betrayal of Palestine: The Story of George Antonius, by Susan Silsby Boyle. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. xxv + 304 pages. Photos. Appends. to p. 328. Sel. bibl. to p. 337. Index to p. 347. $38 paper. Originally the topic of her...

Economic Development and Political Reform: The Impact of External Capital on the Middle East.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Economic Development and Political Reform: The Impact of External Capital on the Middle East, by Bradley Louis Glasser. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc, 2001. vi + 129 pages. Bibl.to p.139. Index to p. 147. $70....

The Cairo House.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Cairo House, by Samia Serageldin. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 233 pages. $24.95. The last decade or so has witnessed an explosion of writings, particularly by Egyptian women who have chosen to lead expatriate lives....

Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence, by Karim H. Karim. Montral, New York, and London: Black Rose Books, 2000. x + 196 pages. Index to p. 204. $53.99 cloth; $24.95 paper. Muslim societies in general have a rather skeptical view of the...

Sexual Encounters in the Middle East: The British, the French and the Arabs.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Sexual Encounters in the Middle East: The British, the French and the Arabs, by Derek Hopwood. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 1999. 287 pages. Bibl. to p. 297. Index to p. 308. GBP35. "Sexual attitudes and proclivities," claims Dr. Derek...

Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush, by Abdolkarim Soroush. Translated, edited, and with a critical introduction by Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 225 pages....

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics, by L. Carl Brown. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. vi + 223 pages. Bibl. to p. 236. Index to p. 256. $27.50 cloth. In the introduction to Religion and State: The Muslim Approach...

Islam and Secularism in the Middle East.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Islam and Secularism in the Middle East, ed. by John L. Esposito and Azzam Tamimi. New York: New York University Press, 2000. ix + 208 pages. Index to p. 214. $55 cloth; $18.50 paper. In the introduction to Religion and State: The Muslim...

Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World, by Anouar Majid. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2000. v + 156 pages. Notes to p. 208. Index to p. 225. $54.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. According to the book's back...

Recent Publications.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, by Robert D. Kaplan. New York: Random House, 2000. xvi + 333 pages. Notes to p. 347. Index to p. 364. About the author. $26.95...