The Middle East Journal articles from June 2003

The Middle East Journal archives from June 2003

Editor's note.
June 22, 2003... This summer of 2003 finds the United States in the role of an occupying power in Iraq, new efforts to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a student upheaval in Iran that may ultimately threaten the regime, and more besides. Several...

War and occupation in Iraq: what went right? What could go wrong?
June 22, 2003... The US occupation of Iraq is not the first such occupation of that country. Although little remembered in the US, the British occupation of Iraq at the end of the First World War, and the uprising and Mandate period that followed, are still...

The liberal impulse in Saudi Arabia.
June 22, 2003... Since 9/11 critical attention has focused on Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi identity to the exclusion of non-Islamist currents such as the Liberal Trend that emerged in the milieu of greater openness promoted by Crown Prince 'Abdallah. This article...

European approaches to security in the Mediterranean.
June 22, 2003... The EU's "comprehensive" approach to security in the Mediterranean links together economic liberalization, democracy promotion, social cooperation, and strategic objectives. In practice, the EU has failed to fully implement its own declared...

The environmental movement in Iran: perspectives from below and above.
June 22, 2003... Protection of the environment is enshrined in Article 50 of the Iranian Constitution. Over the past two decades, many environmental groups and organizations have emerged as part of Iran's nascent civil society. In addition to these...

The beginnings of Transjordanian military intelligence: a neglected aspect of the 1948 war.
June 22, 2003... Transjordanian military intelligence was established just before the 1948 war with the help of the British army, to assist the Arab Legion in the war against the Jews in Palestine. Military intelligence was a very small unit (some historians...

Chronology: January 16, 2003-April 15, 2003.
June 22, 2003... ABBREVIATIONS AN, www. ArabicNews.com BBC, www.bbc.co.uk FT, Financial Times NYT, The New York Times WP, The Washington Post WSJ, The Wall Street Journal Arab-Israeli Conflict Jan. 16: Israeli forces...

The burden of Saudi Arabia.
June 22, 2003... At the Drop of a Veil: The True Story of an American Woman's Years in a Saudi Arabian Harem, by Marianne Alireza. Costa Mesa, CA: Blind Owl Press, an imprint of Mazda Publishers, 2002 (first published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971). xii + 275...

Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Timothy Mitchell. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 1990. xiii + 303 pages. Notes to p. 380. Sel. bibl. to p. 401. Index to p. 413. $49.95 cloth; $14.95 paper. Rule of Experts is the most...

All the Shah's Men: The Hidden Story of the CIA Coup in Iran.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... All the Shah's Men: The Hidden Story of the CIA Coup in Iran by Stephen Kinzer. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003. xiv + 228 pages. Notes to p. 243. Bibl. to p. 249. Index to p. 258. $24.95. Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran, ed. by Mark...

Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Brenda Shaffer. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: MIT Press, 2002. xviii + 219 pages. Map. Appendix to p. 225. Sel. bibl. to p. 236. About the author. Index to p. 248. $22.95. The demise of the Soviet Union has had, and is still having,...

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Azar Nafisi. New York: Random House, 2003. 343 pages. Acknowledgments. $23.95. Azar Nafisi's touching memoir of life in the Islamic Republic of Iran revolves around her decision to withdraw from university life and teach great works of...

The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, A Biography.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, a biography by Abbas Milani, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2000-2001. xviii + 346 pages. Notes to p. 383. Index to p. 399. $29.95. Iranian Mythology and...

Intellectuals and the State in Iran: Politics, Discourse, and the Dilemma of Authenticity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Negin Nabavi. Gainesville and Talahassee, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003. ix + 149 pages. Appends. to p. 155. Bibl. to. 204. Index to p. $55. By all accounts, the Iranian revolution of 1977-79 had a powerful cultural overtone,...

Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel: 1965-2001.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Jonathan Mendilow. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. ix + 249 pages. Tables. Notes to p. 282. Bibl. to p. 291. Index to p. 300. $81.50 cloth; $27.95 paper. Jonathan Mendilow's book is an extremely well written and...

Constructing Lebanon: A Century of Literary Narratives.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Elise Salem. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003. xi + 249 pages. Notes to p. 266. Index to p. 292. $55. Elise Salem's Constructing Lebanon has succeeded in offering an analytical and comprehensive examination of Lebanese...

No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Shahla Haeri. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xxxiv + 409 pages. Gloss. to p. 421. Works cited to p. 437. Index to p. 454. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Once again, Shahla Haeri leads us to frontiers of research and...

Living with Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Heather J. Sharkey. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 141 pages. Map. Gloss. to p. 145. Abbrevs. to p. 146. Bibl. to p. 191. Index to p. 255. $65 cloth; $24.95 paper. Heather...

Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Eva Bellin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. 185 pages. Appends. p. 191. Notes and Bibl. to p. 232. Index to p. 239. $32.50. Eva Bellin's study is timely, now that building democracy in at least one Arab country is on the...

Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A study in Vernacular Politics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Jenny B. White. Seattle, WA and London, UK: University of Washington Press, 2002. xi + 276 pages. Notes to p. 280. Bibl. to p. 288. Index to p. 299. $35. The recent stunning victory of Islamic groups in national elections in several...

Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Adeed Dawisha. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2003. vi + 313 pages. Index to p. 340. $29.95. Adeed Dawisha's highly readable, clear-eyed, and sober historical account of Arab nationalism is an important...

Cursed is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat Versus the Israeli General, Beirut 1982.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by John Boykin. Foreword by George Shultz. Belmont, CA: Applegate Press, 2002. 318 pages. Appends. to p. 338. Notes to p. 464. Bibl. and source notes to p. 478. Index to p. 488. $29.95. The diplomat is Philip Habib and the Israeli general...

Sacred Space and the Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Juan Cole. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. viii + 211 pages. Notes to p. 247. Bibl. to p. 250. Index to p. 254. $59.50 cloth; $22.50 paper. Soon after the Prophet Muhammad's death in 632, the nascent Muslim...

Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Mohammed M. Hafez. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. xvii + 211 pages. Abbrevs. to p. 214. Bibl. to p. 241. Index to p. 251. $49.95. In this book, Mohammed Hafez argues that "Muslims become violently militant...

Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims: Prayer, Passion and Politics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by James A. Bill and John Alden Williams. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xi + 146 pages. Notes to p. 166. Gloss. to p. 169. Bibl. to p. 177. Index to p. 184. $24.95. The authors undertook to write this book after...

The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War. Second Edition.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by M. Nazif Shahrani. Seattle, WA and London, UK: University of Washington Press, 2003. xli + 268 pages. Illust. Gloss. to p. 280. Bibl. to p. 296. Index to p. 302. This book, originally published in 1979 and based on twenty months of field...

Coalition Defection: the Dissolution of Arab-Israeli Coalitions in War and Peace.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Avi Kober. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. xv + 192 pages. Bibl. to p. 210. Index to p. 218. $64.95. This book examines the causes, results, and patterns of defections from Arab coalitions against Israel. The central argument...

The Middle East Peace Process: Vision Versus Reality.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Joseph Ginat, Edward J. Perkins, and Edwin G. Corr. Foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xix + 419 pages. Contribs. to p. 427. Index to p. 444. $44.95. This book, the...

Peace Fire: Fragments from the Israel-Palestine Story.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Ethan Casey & Paul Hilder. London, UK: Free Association Books, 2002. xiii + 342 pages. Facts and voices to p. 356. Sources to p. 365. $19.95 paper. In this book, the editors present in chronological order a variety of articles, speeches,...

Victoria College: a History Revealed.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Sahar Hamouda and Colin Clement. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. xii + 243 pages. Appends. to p. 308. Bibl. to p. 310. Index to p. 316. n.p. This book examines the history of Victoria College, a...

Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Foreword by H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, by Lesley Lababidi in collaboration with Nadia El-Arabi. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. xx + 154 pages. Photos. List of acronyms. Appends. to p. 171. Notes to p. 181. Bibl. to p. 184....

Searching for Hassan: a Journey to the Heart of Iran.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Terence Ward. New York: Anchor Books, 2003. 314 pages. Map. Further reading. $14 paper. Terence Ward, now a cross_cultural consultant who has advised corporations and governments in the Islamic world and the West, grew up in Tehran in the...

The Aura of Kings: Legitimacy and Divine Sanction in Iranian Kingship.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Abolala Soudavar. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2003. xiv + 123 pages. Bibl. to p. 132. Index to p. 136. List of illust. to p. 144. Plates to p. 178. $35. In the tenth volume of Bibliotheca Iranica's Intellectual Traditions Series,...

Iraq's Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Abbas Alnasrawi. Westport, CT and London, UK: Greenwood Press, 2002. x + 167 pages. Tables. Sel. bibl. to p. 175. Index to p. 179. $64.95. Abbas Alnasrawi presents an analysis of Iraq's oil industry and the burdens that it has created for...

The Israeli Economy, 1985-1998: from Government Intervention to Market Economics.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Avi Ben-Bassat. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. xiv + 517 pages. Index to p. 529. $40. Between 1985 and 1998, Israel implemented a series of stabilization programs to adjust its economic crisis and high inflation. During this period,...

Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Laura Zittain Eisenberg, Neil Caplan, Naomi B. Solkoloff, and Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002. ix + 340 pages. Contribs. $81.50 cloth; $27.95 paper. This collection gathers essays from 65 recent books on a variety of...

Israeli Historical Revisionism: from Left to Right.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Anita Shapira and Derek J. Penslar. Portland, OR and London, UK: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. vii + 172 pages. Contribs. to p. 174. Index to p. 185. $62.50 cloth; $26.50 paper. Based on two conferences on Israeli historical revisionism...

The Palestinian People: a History.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Joel S. Migdal and Baruch Kimmerling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. xxix + 417 pages. Chron. list to p. 456. Notes to p. 545. Index to p. 568. $45 cloth; $17.95 paper. Starting with the Arab revolt in Palestine in 1834,...

In the High Yemen.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Hugh Scott. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xix + 237 pages. Maps. Figures. Illustrations. Notes. Bibl. Index to p. 260. $144.50. This book was written after a British Museum expedition to South_West Arabia in 1937-38. At the...

Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts. Durham, NC and London, UK: Duke University Press, 2002. xi + 203 pages. Illustrations. Bibl. to p. 216. Index to p. 227. $64.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. In this book, the editors seek to challenge the Western...

Veil: Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. By David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. 187 pages. Photos. Artists to p. 190. Contribs. to p. 191. $25 paper. Put together to accompany an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual...

The Music of the Arabs.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Habib Hassan Touma. Tr. by Laurie Schwartz. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2003. xxii + 188 pages. Discography to p. 196. Gloss. to p. 211. Bibl. to p. 221. Index to p. 238. $22.95. This book, originally published in 1989, has been re-printed...

Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xxx + 249 pages. Works cited to p. 275. Index to p. 287. n.p. This book is a collection of ten original essays about contemporary...

Arabic Culture Through Its Language and Literature.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by M.H. Bakalla. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pages. Maps. Figures. Illustrations. List of symbols and abbrevs. Sel. bibl. Index. Arabic trans, of Introduction. $127.50. This book offers a broad introduction to Arabic...

The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender, and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Suzanne Pickney Stetkevych. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvi + 282 pages. Appendix of Arabic texts to p. 324. Notes to p. 360. Works cited to p. 370. Index to p. 383. $59.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. From...

Bedouin Poetry: from Sinai and the Negev.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Clinton Bailey. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris Press, 2002. xxi + 429 pages. Maps. Plates. Gloss. to p. 457. Bibl. to p. 451. Index of Subjects to p. 469. Index of Arabic names and tribal groups to p. 473....

In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. and trans. by Nabil Matar. New York and London: UK, Routledge, 2002. xlviii + 214 pages. Index of names to p. 222. Index of places to p. 229. $85 cloth; $22.95 paper. Western historians and cultural analysts have viewed the record of early...

Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. and tr. from Persian, with Introduction, Glossary, and Notes by Wheeler M. Thackston. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc, 2001. xv + 133 pages. Gloss. to p. 154. Appends. to p. 160. Works cited to p. 162. Bibl. of Nasir-I Khusraw to p....

Short Arabic Plays: an Anthology.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. Northampton, MA and New York: Interlink Books, 2003. xiii + 451 pages. Notes to p. 455. Bibl. notes to p. 466. $25 paper. This volume is a collection of 20 short plays by 16 Arab playwrights from all over the Arab...

The Middle East Military Balance 2001-2002.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Shlomo Brom and Yiftah Shapir. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: The MIT Press and Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 2002. 382 pages. Tables and charts to p. 397. Gloss. of weapons systems to p. 459. Abbrevs. to p. 464. $37.95. This book...

A History of Islamic Societies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Ira M. Lapidus. Second edition. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxx + 872 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Tables and figures. Gloss. to p. 883. Bibl. to p. 940. Index to p. 970. $110 cloth; $40 paper. This work...

Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Kiki Kennedy-Day. London, UK and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. xi + 159 pages. Acknowl. List of Abbrevs. Appends. to p. 166. Notes to p. 190. Bibl. to p. 197. Index to p. 200. $75. In an expansion of her dissertation, Kiki Kennedy-Day...

Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: a Sourcebook.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Charles Kurzman. xi + 375 pages. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Gloss. to p. 377. Index of Qur'anic citations to p. 380. Index of personal names to p. 389. n.p. This sourcebook presents 52 important texts drawn...

A Prophet for Our Time: an Anthology of the Writings of Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Judith H. Banki and Eugene J. Fisher. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002. xxxii + 359 pages. Anthology sources to p. 363. Index to p. 376. $45. This collection of the writings of Rabbi Tanenbaum analyzes the historical and current...

Understanding the Hadith: the Sacred Traditions of Islam.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Ram Swarup. Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books, New York, 2002. 246 pages. Bibl. to p. 249. Index to p. 258. $22 paper. Few outside the Muslim world are familiar with the Hadith, which is considered integral with the Qur'an as a source of Islamic...

The "Threat" of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Fereydoun Hoveyda. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. xiii + 199 pages. Notes to p. 215. Sel. bibl. to p. 221. Index to p. 237. $24.95 paper. In this book, Fereydoun Hoveyda, a former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations during the reign of...

The Jains.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Paul Dundas. London, UK and New York: Routledge, 2002. xii + 276 pages. Gloss to p. 280. Notes to p. 306. Sources to p. 335. Index to p. 354. Through exploring the history, doctrine, and modern existence of Jainism, Paul Dundas attempts to...

The A to Z of Islam.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
June 22, 2003... by Ludwig W. Adamec. Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002. xxix + 284 pages. Chron. Bibl. to p. 298. About the author. $24.95 paper. This revised and expanded paperback version of The Historical Dictionary of Islam...

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Ibn Warraq. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. 388 pages. Appends. to p. 471. $28. This book, edited by Ibn Warraq, author of Why I Am Not A Muslim, presents a number essays written by people who have left the Islamic faith. In an...

The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Mohammed Arkoun. New York: Saqi Books, 2002. 334 pages. Bibl. to p. 342. Index to p. 352. $55 cloth. In the mindset of what the author refers to as the "scholar-thinker" this is not yet another primary source analysis of what Islam is, or...

Knowledge Across Cultures: a Contribution to Dialogue Among Civilizations.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Ruth Hayhoe and Julia Pan. Hong Kong, China: Comparative Education Research Center, the University of Hong Kong, 2002. xv + 347 pages. Bibl. to p. 373. Index to p. 391. h.p. This book is a collection of viewpoints from leading scholars...

The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Shemmem Burney Abbas. Foreword by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2003. xxix + 145 pages. Gloss. to p. 159. Notes to p. 182. Primary sources and bibl. to p. 204. Index to p. 209. n.p. In this book, the author...

Jews, Turks, Ottomans: a Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Avigdor Levy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xv + 278. Appends. to p. 285. Notes to p. 341. Bibl. to p. 379. Index to p. 395. $34.95 paper. For hundreds of years, the Ottoman Empire was home to one of the world's largest...

The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Lawrence Rosen. Chicago, IL and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xvii + 173 pages. Notes to p. 209. Bibl. to p. 228. Index to p. 230. $24. Drawing on over three decades of experience in Morocco and North Africa, Lawrence...

Gender, Behavior, and Health: Schistosomiasis Transmission and Control in Rural Egypt.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... by Samiha El Katsha and Susan Watts. Cairo, Egpyt: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. xx + 200 pages. Map. Figures. Tables. Gloss. Appends. to p. 204. Bibl. to p. 220. Index to p. 229. $27.50 paper. Samiha El Katsha and Susan Watts,...

Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy & Society.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... ed. by Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. ix + 278 pages. Tables and figures. Contribs. to p. 281. Index to p. 295. n.p. This book analyzes the economic impact of...