The Middle East Journal articles from June 2005

The Middle East Journal archives from June 2005

Editor's note.
June 22, 2005... As this issue goes to press, Lebanon is concluding its parliamentary elections, the first since the Syrian withdrawal. The signs are both encouraging (there is a genuine enthusiasm on display) and somewhat disappointing (the unity displayed by...

The United Arab Emirates: statehood and nation-building in a traditional society.
June 22, 2005... Nationals represent barely 20% of the population in the United Arab Emirates, but form the economically and socially privileged group of UAE citizens. The Rulers of the seven emirates were able to retain the historical loyalty of the "Emiratis"...

Democratic development in Oman.
June 22, 2005... Everyone accepts a one size fits all model cannot deliver successful democratic reform. But it is less widely understood that the process is open-ended, with no predetermined finishing line. Development depends on a political version of...

Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: the struggle over the personal status law.
June 22, 2005... Since 1991, the status of women in Morocco has been the subject of widespread debate. Efforts by women's groups and liberal political forces to change the Shari'a-based Personal Status Code (moudawwana), were vigorously opposed by conservative...

National human rights institutions in the Middle East.
June 22, 2005... Ten states in the Middle East have created or plan to establish "national human rights institutions" to implement internationally recognized norms. This article offers a systematic survey of this new but unexplored terrain, examining issues of...

Women's parties in Israel: their unrecognized significance and potential.
June 22, 2005... Women's parties have played a significant role on the Israeli political scene since the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Moreover, women's parties had far reaching impact on both the status of women and wider society. However,...

Chronology: January 16, 2005-April 15, 2005.(Calendar)
June 22, 2005... Arab-Israeli Conflict See also Palestinian Affairs, Israel Jan. 28: Israel announced an end to offensive operations in the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian Authority deployed 2,000 police officers in the southern territory. [NYT, 1/28]...

North Africa's desperate regimes.(The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco)(Searching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Morocco)(La memoire du temps, Maroc, pays de l'inacheve)(Le Developpement Asiatique: quels enseignements pour les economies arabes? Elements de strategic de developpement: le cas de l'Algerie)(Bouteflika: une imposture algerienne)(A History of Modern Tunisia)(Science et pouvoir dans la Tunisie contemporaine)(Le mal arabe--Entre dictatures et integrismes: la democratie interdite)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco, by Susan Slyomovics. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. ix + 204. Notes to p. 243. Bibl. to p. 262. Index to 268. Acknowl. to p. 271. $55 cloth; $24.95 paper. Searching for...

How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process, ed. Tamara Cofman Wittes. Foreword by Richard H. Solomon. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005. xiv + 148 pages. Index to p....

The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, by Yair Auron. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 2000. 332 pages. $29.95 paper. The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, by Yair Auron. New Brunswick,...

Radical Islam in Egypt and Jordan.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Radical Islam in Egypt and Jordan, by Nachman Tal. Brighton, UK and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. xi+245 pages. Notes to p. 265. Bibl. to 269. Index to p. 281. $29.95 paper. Tal has written a useful account of the rise of...

Sabra and Shatila: September 1982.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Sabra and Shatila: September 1982, by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout. London, UK and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2004. xiv + 324 pages. Notes to p. 343. Appends. to p. 434. Bibl. to p. 462. $24.95 paper. The September 1982 massacre of more than a...

Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland, by Juliane Hammer. Austin, TX; University of Texas Press, 2005. xiii + 225 pages. Appends. to p. 228. Notes to p. 238. Bibl. to p. 259. Index to p. 271. $55 cloth; $22.95...

Occupied By Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Occupied By Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency, by John Collins. New York and London, UK: New York University Press, 2004. xvi + 228 pages. Appendix to p. 233. Notes to p. 252. Gloss. to p. 254. Bibl. to p....

Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire, by Flynt Leverett. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2005. xiii + 167 pages. Appends to p. 214. Notes to p. 275. $27.95. This book is valuable for its account of Syria under Bashar...

A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria, by Christa Salamandra. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. xi + 164 pages. Notes to 171. Refs. to 187. Index to 199. $49.95 cloth; $21.95 paper. ...

Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change, by Meliha Benli Altunik and Ozlem Tur. London, UK and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005. xvii + 139 pages. Map. Tables. Chron. Notes to p. 163. Bibl. to p. 170. Index to p. 174. $18.99 paper. In...

The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival, by Christopher M. Davidson. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005. xi + 300 pages. Tables and figures. Gloss. to p. 306. Abbrevs. to p. 308. Bibl. to p. 326. Index to p. 332. $59.95. ...

Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962-1967.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962-1967, by Jonathan Walker. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount Limited, 2005. xx + 300 pages. Gloss. to p. 305. Bibl. to p. 318. Index to p. 332. BP25. The publicity for this book makes...

Energy Developments in the Middle East.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Energy Developments in the Middle East, by Anthony H. Cordesman. Westport, CT and London, UK: Praeger Publishers, in cooperation with the Center for Strategic International Studies, Washington, DC, 2004. xvii + 287 pages. Notes to p. 298. Index...

Germany and the Middle East, 1871-1945.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Germany and the Middle East, 1871-1945, ed. by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz. Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2004, 243 pages. Maps, figures, and documents. About the authors. $89.95. Will the Middle East be the key political region of the...

The Turks in World History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Turks in World History, by Carter Vaughn Findley. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi + 237 pages. Notes to p. 261. Bibl to p. 285. Index to p. 300. $74 cloth; $19.95 paper. In his latest book, Carter Vaughn...

Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City, by John Limbert. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2004. xii + 124 pages. Appends. to p. 141. Notes to p. 162. Bibl. to p. 172. Index to p. 182. $22.50 paper. In...

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, by Saba Mahmood. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 199 pages. Gloss. to p. 203. Refs. to p. 223. Index to p. 233. $55 cloth; $17.95 paper. ...

Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading, by Nimat Hafez Barazangi. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. xii + 136 pages. Notes to p. 147. Sel. Bibl. to p. 164. Index to p. 172. $59.95. Women's Identity and the Qur'an:...

Israelis and Palestinians. Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Israelis and Palestinians. Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? (Second Edition), by Bernard Wasserstein. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 178 pages. Maps and figures. Chron. to p. 193. Notes to p. 208. Sel. bibl. to p. 218. Index...

Herzl's Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Herzl's Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples, by Peter Rodgers. New York: Nation Books, 2005. 129 pages. Notes to p. 133. Sel. reading to p. 136. Index to p. 147. $13.95 paper. Theodor Herzl's vision of a Jewish homeland was fulfilled with the...

Making Cairo Medieval.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Making Cairo Medieval, ed. by Nezar Alsayyad, Irene A. Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 256 pages. Sel. bibl. to p. 259. Index to p. 266. Contribs. $75 cloth; $27.95 paper. This book of 11 chapters is a...

The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran, by Kamran Scot Aghaie. Seattle, WA and London, UK: University of Washington Press, 2004. xvi + 161 pages. Maps and color photos. Notes to p. 178. Bibl. to p. 193. Index to p....

The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq, ed. by Brendan O'Leary, John McGarry, and Khaled Salih. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xxi + 307 pages. Appends. to p. 340. Contribs. to p. 344. Name index to p. 348. Subject index to...

The Sharafnama: Or the History of the Kurdish Nation--1597, Book One.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Sharafnama: Or the History of the Kurdish Nation--1597, Book One, by Prince Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi. Translation and commentaries by M.R. Izady. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2005. xxxv + 247 pages. Gloss. Maps to p. 254. Dynastic...

The Kurdish Question and the 2003 Iraqi War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Kurdish Question and the 2003 Iraqi War, ed. by Mohammed M.A. Ahmed and Michael M. Gunter. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2005. xvi + 275 pages. Maps. Index to p. 279. Contribs. $35 paper. This book is based on an international...

Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon, by Samir Khalaf. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xxiv + 328 pages. Notes to p. 334. Bibl. to p. 351. Index to p. 368. $18.50 paper. Lebanon's societal divisions, resulting from deep sectarian...

Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East, ed. by Dawn Chatty and Gillian Lewando Hundt. New York: Bergahn Books, 2005. xiii + 179 pages. Appends. to p. 265. Gloss. to p. 267. Index to p. 274. $60 cloth; $25 paper....

Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia (second edition), ed. by J.E. Peterson. Oxford, UK and Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. xxxviii + 163 pages. Maps. Chron. Appends. to p. 204. Sel. bibl. to p. 258. About the author. $75. This reference...

On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's Confession.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's Confession, by Victor L. Israelyan. University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 402 pages. Index to p. 414. $45. This book is not about the Middle East, which merits...

The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide, by Susan Nathan. New York: Doubleday, 2005. xv + 274 pages. Maps. Gloss. to p. 290. Sources to p. 299. $25 paper. In this book, Susan Nathan, a British-born Israeli, recounts...

Compnay C: An American's Life as a Citizen-Soldier in Israel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Company C: An American's Life as a Citizen-Soldier in Israel, by Haim Watzman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 384 pages. Acknowledgments. $26. In this book, the author, a translator and journalist who immigrated from suburban...

Bring 'Em On: Media and Politics in the Iraq War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Bring 'Era On: Media and Politics in the Iraq War, ed. by Lee Artz and Yahya R. Kamalipour. Foreword by Douglas Kellner. Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, and New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. xix + 254 pages. Index to p. 263. Contribs....

Reading Chubak.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Reading Chubak, by M.R. Ghanoonparvar. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2005. x + 134 pages. Notes to p. 152. Appends to pg. 192. Bibl. to p. 202. Index to p. 209. About the author. $28 paper. Modern Iranian fiction has served as a window...

Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories, ed. and trans, by Dalya Cohen-Mor. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. iv + 290 pages. Notes to p. 295. About the authors to p. 305. $81.50 cloth; $24.95 paper. The goal of...

Folktales from Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Folktales from Iraq, ed. and trans, by C.G. Campbell and illust, by John Buckland Wright. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 236 pages. Illust. Notes to p. 246. $15.95 paper. This is a collection of stories from the Shi'a...

Standing Trial: Law and the Person in the Modern Middle East.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Standing Trial: Law and the Person in the Modern Middle East, ed. by Baudouin Dupret. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. x + 371 pages. Index to p. 382. $75. This book examines how the person is treated under the various legal systems...

Radical Islam's Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari'a Law.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Radical Islam's Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari'a Law, ed. by Paul Marshall. Lanham, MD and Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. xix + 212 pages. Index to p. 224. Contribs. $85 cloth; $27.95 paper. The spread...

Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity, ed. by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser. Lanham, MD and New York: AltaMira Press, 2004. ix + 232 pages. Bibl. to p. 244. Gloss. to p. 250. Index to p. 259. Contribs. to p. 264. $69...

Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, American, and Israel, 1917-2002.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, American, and Israel, 1917-2002, by Irvine H. Anderson. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. x + 138 pages. Notes to p. 164. Bibl. to p. 176. Index to p. 187....

Missed Opportunities: US Diplomatic Failures and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1967.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Missed Opportunities: US Diplomatic Failures and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1967, by Candace Karp. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2005. 284 pages. Map. Bibl. to p. 297. Index to p. 309. $17.95 paper. From the founding of the Jewish state in...

Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Ataturk and Reza Shah.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatiirk and Reza Shah, ed. by Touraj Atabaki and Erik J. Zurcher. London, UK and New York: I.B. tauris, 2004. 281 pages. Index to p. 286. $65. The ten chapters comprising this volume trace the...

The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy, by Reuel Marc Gerecht. Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 2004.58 pages. Notes to p. 64. About the author. $15 paper. Author Reuel Marc Gerecht, a...

Bridging the Gap: Ethnicity, Legitimacy, and State Alignment in the International System.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Bridging the Gap: Ethnicity and State Alignment in the International System, by Cindy R. Jebb. Lanham, MD and New York: Lexington Books, 2004. xvi + 271 pages. Tables. Appendix to p. 306. Bibl. to p. 324. Index to p. 339. $80. This book, which...

From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon, ed. by Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann. Wtirzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2004. 358 pages. About the authors to p. 362. Index to p. 366. n.p. This collection of articles is the...

Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, ed. by Robert F. Hefner. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii + 346 pages. Index to p. 358. $65 cloth; $16.95 paper. The 13 chapters comprising this volume are...

The Politics of Forced Migration: A Conceptual, Operational and Legal Analysis.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Politics of Forced Migration: A Conceptual, Operational and Legal Analysis, ed. by Nitza Nachmias with Rami Goldstein. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2005. 429 pages. $24.95 paper. The main subject of this book is the fractured and...

Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths: Power Politics and Western Adventurism in the Arab World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths, Power Politics and Western Adventurism in the Arab World, by Mark Huband. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2005. xvii + 295 pages. Notes to p. 314. Bibl. to p. 320. Index to p. 331. $26. In this book, Mark Huband, the...

Iran, Iraq, and the Legacies of War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Iran, Iraq, and the Legacies of War, ed. by Lawrence G. Potter and Gary G. Sick. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 216 pages. Index to p. 224. $59.95. This book is based on papers presented in October 2001 at a conference in Bellagio, Italy. The...

Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil, by Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. xii + 235 pages. Index to p. 250. $24.95. In this volume, co-authors Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman contend that...

Muslim Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Muslim Politics [second paperback edition], by Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xix + 164 pages. Figures. Notes to p. 174. Gloss. to p. 177. Annotated bibl. to p. 182. Refs. to p. 217....

Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning, by Malise Ruthven. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 219 pages. Notes to p. 230. Sel. bibl. to p. 236. Index to p. 246. $21. As the author notes at the outset, "fundamentalism" has...

Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy, ed. by Elisabeth Ozdalga. New York and Abingdon, UK: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. xxi + 309. Appendix to p. 339. Index to p. 348. Illust. Abbrevs. Contribs. $45. This book emerges from a multi-year...

Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840, by Ronald Florence. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.215 pages. Notes to p. 246. Index to p. 257. $35. This book recounts the disappearance of the Capuchin monk Father Thomas and his...

Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, ed. by Joseph C. Berland and Aparno Rao. Praeger Publishers, 2004. vii + 328 pages. Index to p. 338. Contribs. to p. 342. $99.95. Drawing on the...

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye'or. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. 270 pages. Appends. to p. 323. Notes to p. 346. Bibl. to p. 362. Index to p. 384.$49.50 cloth; $23.95 paper. This book describes...

Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identites and Locasl Practices.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identites and Local Practices, ed. by Joel S. Migdai. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $80. x + 357 pages. Index to p. 363. Based on workshops...

Food Culture in the Near East, Middle East, and North Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Food Culture in the Near East, Middle East, and North Africa, by Peter Heine. Westport, CT and London, UK: Greenwood Press, 2004. xii + 166 pages. Chron. Map. Gloss. to p. 168. Sel. bibl. to p. 171. Index to p. 181. $49.95. The cuisines of the...

Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out, ed. by Fawzia Afzal-Khan. Foreword by Nawal El Saadawi. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2005. xi + 329 pages. Notes and credits to p. 331. Bios. to p. 338. $20 paper. Shattering the...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2005... 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...