The Middle East Journal articles from March 2003

The Middle East Journal archives from March 2003

Editor's note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... This issue goes to press with the United States engaged in a war in Iraq. As the United States embarks upon what may be a long-term involvement in the Middle East, much of the region itself is debating the meaning of the US effort to bring down...

By conviction, not by infliction: the internal debate over reforming the Palestinian authority.
March 22, 2003... Early 2002 saw an escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; simultaneously, the Palestinian discourse on reforming the Palestinian Authority gained momentum. These concurrent processes led Israel's leadership to the conclusion that...

Demythologyzing the national security concept: the case of Turkey.
March 22, 2003... Since the second half of the 1990s, a new national security discourse in Turkey sanctifies security over democratic and developmental objectives. By organizing itself around the concepts and issues raised by the former Deputy Prime Minister...

Manning the barricades: Islam according to Saudi Arabia's school texts.
March 22, 2003... The Saudi educational system has been criticized in the United States for allegedly inciting anti-Western sentiments, but is this criticism deserved? The present article is based on a reading of the kingdom's mandatory religion texts in the...

Jordan's "new bargain:" the political economy of regime security.
March 22, 2003... The author argues that the progression and regression of liberalization in Jordan can be explained by the Jordanian monarchy's desire to maintain budget and regime security in an era of economic austerity. He illustrates how the monarchy has...

The Egyptian military in politics: disengagement or accommodation?
March 22, 2003... This article argues that the extent of the Egyptian military's engagement in, or withdrawal from, the political process and its subsequent professionalism have always been a reflection of the nature of the regime it served. While it was the...

Chronology: October 16, 2002-January 15, 2003.(Middle East)(Chronology)
March 22, 2003... ABBREVIATIONS FT, Financial Times NYT, The New York Times WP, The Washington Post WSJ, The Wall Street Journal Arab-Israeli Conflict See also, Israel, Regional, Palestinian Affairs 2002 Oct. 15: Two...

Islam in Egyptian politics: from activism to alienation.(Egypt, Islam and Democracy: Critical Essays, with a New Postscript; Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience; Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Egypt, Islam and Democracy: Critical Essays, with a New Postscript, by Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 1996 and 2002. xi + 269 pages. $19.95. Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The...

Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By David B. Edwards. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. xxii + 354 pages. Notes to p. 332. Gloss. to p. 337. Bibl. to p. 345. Index to 354. $48 cloth; $17.95 paper. This book deals with Afghanistan primarily from the 1978...

Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Kamran Asdar Ali. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. xii + 168 pages. Notes to p. 197. Bib. to p.221. Index to p. 233. $55 cloth; $22.95 paper. Egypt is one of the earliest Arab countries to have adopted an explicit population...

Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Farha Ghannam. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 2002. xii to 182 pages. Notes to p. 194. Bibl. to p. 206. Index to p. 214. $21.95 paper. Remaking the Modern is a beautifully written book on...

Egypt and American Foreign Assistance, 1952-1956: Hopes Dashed.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Jon B. Alterman. New York and London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xxiv + 134 pages. Notes to p. 176. Bibl. to p. 194. Index to p. 200. $55. The subject of US-Egyptian relations during the turbulent 1950s has been a perennial...

The Global Political Economy of Israel.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. London, UK and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002. xiv + 357 pages. Figures. Tables. Bibl. to p. 371. Index to p. 407. $95.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. The stated purpose of this Marxist book (pp. 2-3) is to...

Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Afshin Molavi. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. xx + 308 pages. Index to p. 315. $25.95. Readability is the main advantage of books authored by journalists over those written by scholars and policy analysts. Afshin...

Jordan in Transition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Curtis R. Ryan. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. x + 139 pages. Bibl. to p. 150. Index to p. 158. $49.50. In Jordan in Transition, Curtis Ryan offers an account of four interrelated sets of changes confronting modern Jordan:...

The Political Legacy of King Hussein.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Alexander Bligh. Foreword by Robert B. Satloff. Brighton and Portland, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2002. vii+211 pages. Notes to p. 248. Index to p. 257. $69.95. The Political Legacy of King Hussein is probably the first serious book...

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine, and the Jews.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Benny Morris. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. x + 242 pages. Bibl. to p. 246. Notes to p. 287. Index to p. 297. $35. Benny Morris has undertaken to investigate the life of John Bagot Glubb, "Glubb Pasha." British Commander of the...

The Two Faces of Islam: the House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Stephen Schwartz. New York: Doubleday, 2002. xxii + 291 pages. Notes to p. 294. Bibl to p. 302. Index to p. 312. $25. This book is a highly interesting, sophisticated, and outspoken study of Muslim beliefs and of the sectarian conflicts...

The Politics of Sacred Space: the Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Michael Dumper. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. 170 pages. Bibl. to p. 175. Index to p. 183. $49.95. This is an important and timely book about a city--Jerusalem, Urashalim al-Quds, Yerushalaim--that is a spiritual symbol to...

Israel on the Couch: the Psychology of the Peace Process.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Ofer Grosbard. Foreword by Vamik D. Volkan. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. xvii + 185 pages. Index to p. 195. $65.50 cloth; $21.95 paper. In January 1980, 24 Egyptians, Israelis, and Americans gathered at the...

Sacrificing Truth: Archaeology and the Myth of Masada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Nachman Ben-Yehuda. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2002. 253 pages. Bibl. to p. 269. Index to p. 275. $35. Self-righteousness is a dangerous and unreliable weapon in the hands of an intellectual historian who seeks to deconstruct a famous...

Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memories from a Century of Change.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. viii + 354 pages. $65 cloth; $24.95 paper. The self for the Victorians was something to be suppressed because there was so much of it. Personal details, as Henry...

State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Erika Weinthal. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. ix + 224 pages. Appends. to p. 226. Notes to p. 249. Refs. to p. 269. Index to p. 274. $25. The goal of Erika Weinthal's work is to "explain and understand why rapid regional environmental...

The Stakes: America and the Middle East: the Consequences of Power and the Choice for Peace & American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Stakes: America and the Middle East: The Consequences of Power and the Choice for Peace, by Shibley Telhami. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. xvi + 184 pages. Maps. Notes to p. 188. Index to p. 204. $24. American Orientalism: The...

The Age of Sacred Terror & The High Cost of Peace: How Washington's Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Age of Sacred Terror, by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon. New York: Random House, 2002. xiii + 446 pages. Gloss. to 449. Notes to p. 472. Index to p. 490. $25.95. The High Cost of Peace: How Washington's Middle East Policy Left...

The Nile.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Robert O. Collins. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2002. x + 233 pages. Maps. Notes to p. 244. Bibl. essay to p. 248. Index to p. 260. $39.95. Developments in the 1950s and 1960s worked to marginalize awareness of the Nile basin as...

Society and Culture in Qajar Iran: Studies in Honor of Hafez Farmayan.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Elton L. Daniel. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2002. xv + 369 pages. Plates. Bibl. $45. It is rare that studies in honor of a colleague have a unifying theme. This one does; in fact, it has two. First, all 16 contributions focus...

Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Ayse Saktanber. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. xxxii + 239 pages. Appends. to p.248. Bibl. to p. 266. Index to p. 277. $59.50. This book is a welcome addition to a very small corpus of studies on "Islamist" women...

The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Camron Michael Amin. Gainsville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2002. xii + 253 pages. Tables and Illustrations. Notes to p. 300. Bibl. to p. 312. Index. to p. 320. $55. On January 7, 1936, a momentous event occurred which was to be a...

Najd Before the Salafi Reform Movement: Social, Political, and Religious Conditions during the Three Centuries Preceding the Rise of the Saudi State. (Arabian Peninsula).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Uwaidah M. Al Juhany, 2002. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, in association with the King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives. x + 163 pages. Notes to p. 194. Bibl. to p. 200. Index to p. 213. $49.50. In the mid-18th century, a...

Islamic Fundamentalism in Egyptian Politics. (Egypt).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Updated ed. by Barry Rubin. New York: Palgrave Press, 2002. ix + 173 pages. Appendix to p. 185. Notes and refs to p. 205. Bibl. to p. 217. Index to p. 221. $69.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. This book examines the origins and evolution of Islamic...

Historians in Cairo: Essays in Honor of George Scanlon. (Egypt).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Jill Edwards. New York and Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press: New York, 2002. xviii + 286 pages. $19.95. The essays collected in this volume attempt to present an all-encompassing view of the city of Cairo--its Islamic...

God and Juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity. (Iran).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Farzin Vahdat. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xviii + 217 pages. Appendix to p. 240. Works cited to p. 253. Index to p. 265. $18.95 paper. F. Vahdat analyzes modernity in the Islamic World from the mid-nineteenth century to...

Defying the Iranian Revolution: From a Minister to the Shah to a Leader of Resistance. (Iran).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Manouchehr Ganji. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. xv + 220 pages. Photos. Notes to p. 245. Bibl. to p. 250. Index to p. 263. $59.95. Dr. Manouchehr Ganji served as Minister of Education in the Shah's cabinet when the regime fell in the Iranian...

Iraq: in the Eye of the Storm. (Iraq).(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2003... By Dilip Hiro. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002. xv + 222 pages. Notes to p. 235. Appends to p. 264. Index to p. 271. $11.95 paper. In this monograph, Dilip Hiro examines US-iraq relations from the early days of the Ba'ath...

The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait. (Kuwait).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Ya'qub Yusuf Al-Hijji. London, UK: The London Centre of Arab Studies, 2002. xii + 141 pages. Appendix to p.145. Transliteration and Gloss. to p. 155. Bibl. to p.157. Credits. Index to p.164. BP 39.50. During the 18th century, Kuwait was a...

Lebanon's Second Republic: Prospects for the Twenty-first Century. (Lebanon).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Kail C. Ellis. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2002. x + 221 pages. Tables. Appendix to p. 224. Index to p. 236. $59.95. Lebanon is a complex nation-state, and this edited volume is an attempt to consider the totality of...

The Armed Forces of Pakistan. (Pakistan).(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2003... By Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema. New York: New York University Press, 2002. xx + 184 pages. Notes to p. 197. Appendix to p. 199, Bibl. to p. 211. Index to p. 220. $38. In this study, P.I. Cheema discusses Pakistan's current defense capabilities and...

Personal Policy Making: Canada's Role in the Adoption of the Palestine Partition. (Palestine and Palestinians).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Eliezer Tauber. Westport, CT and London, UK: Greenwood Press, 2002. xii + 118 pages. Abbrevs. Notes to p. 154. Bibl. to p. 163. Index to p. 170. $59.95. About the author, n.p. In this book, Tauber shows that Canadian mediation was central to...

Turkish Transformation: New Century New Challenges. (Turkey).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed by Brian Beeley. Huntingdon, UK: The Eothen Press, 2002. xi + 263 pages. Contribs. to p. 274. Index to p. 279. $55 cloth; $32.95 paper. Straddling two continents, Turkey has long been caught between Europe's modernity and the pull of...

Ancient Magan: the Secrets of Tell Abraq. (Archaeology).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By D.T. Potts. London, UK: Trident Press Ltd., 2000. 131 pages. Bibl. to p. 134. Gloss. to p. 140. Index to p. 144. Maps. BP 14.95 cloth; 9.95 paper. This book is a colorful and finely detailed guide to the archaeological work conducted at Tell...

The Northern Cemetery of Cairo. (Art And Architecture).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Hani Hamza. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2001. vii + 55 pages. Appendix to p. 58.26 figures. 35 plates. Bibl. to p. 107. $49. As this volume demonstrates, the Northern Cemetery of Cairo was the last of several cemeteries created...

Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture. (Art And Architecture).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Gawdat Gabra. The American University in Cairo Press: New York, 2002. xiv + 123 pages. Illustrations. Bibl. to p. 133. Gloss. to p. 135. Index to p. 142. $22.50. The Copts first invented communal (cenobitic) monasticism, a tradition that...

Islamic Monuments in Cairo: the Practical Guide. (Art And Architecture).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... [New, revised edition], by Caroline Williams. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. ix + 231 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Photos. Gloss. to p. 235. Islamic calendar to p. 237. Bibl. to p. 239. Index to p. 264. $22.50...

T.E. Lawrence: Biography of a Broken Hero. (Biography).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Harold Orlans. Jefforson, NC and London, UK: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. xii + 241 pages. Notes to p. 267. Bibl. to p. 273. Index to p. 281. $39.95 paper. T.E. Lawrence was a mysterious hero who is known for dropping his British...

Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East: Studies of Markets and Household Behavior. (Economic Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Djavad Salehi-Ishfahani. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, in association with the Economic Research Forum, Cairo, 2001. xvii + 392 pages. Tables. Graphs. Index to p. 403. $22.50 paper. With a large amount of data, this microeconomic exploration of...

The Arab World Facing the Challenge of the New Millennium. (Economic Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Henry T. Azzam. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers. xiii + 210 pages. Figures. Tables. $59.50. Henry Azzam provides key analysis of the economies, banking, and stock and bond markets of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain,...

Caspian Energy Resources: Implications for the Arab Gulf States. (Economic Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR). London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. xii + 186 pages. Table and figures. Abbrevs. Contribs. to p. 192. Notes to p. 211. Index to p. 232. $25 paper. Comprising...

Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates. (Environmental Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Dr. Peter J. Vine. London, UK: Trident Press Ltd., 1996. 238 pages. Birds' Checklist to p. 243. Index to p. 248. BP 29.95. This book highlights the unique juxtaposition of deserts and mountains, a multitude of offshore islands, and...

The Island of Sir Bani Yas. (Environmental Conditions).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Peter Vine. London, UK: Trident Press, Ltd., 2000. 42 pages + photographs + 41 pages in Arabic. BP 49. This book of pictures of the island of Sir Bani Yas, off the coast of Abu Dhabi, is a testament to the vision and commitment of H.H....

Seeds of Corruption. (Language And Literature).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Sabri Moussa. Tr. by Mona N. Mikhail. New York and Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2002. 169 pages. Gloss. $12.95 paper. Written by Sabri Moussa, a prominent Egyptian novelist and a recipient of the Egyptian Literary Prize, this...

Islamic Art and Literature. (Language And Literature).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Oleg Grabar and Cynthia Robinson. Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2001. xiv + 162 pages. $44.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. Leading expert in Islamic art history, Oleg Grabar, with Cynthia Robinson, present six essays that unite...

Make a Shield from Wisdom: Selected Verses from Nasir-i Khusraw's Divan. (Language And Literature).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Trans, and introduced by Annemarie Schimmel. London, UK New York: I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2001. vii + 96 pages. Sel. bibl. to p. 98. Index to p. 102. $19.95 paper. Professor Emeritus of Indo-Muslim...

Law after Ground Zero. (Law).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by John Strawson. The Glass House Press: London and New York, 2002. xxi + 213 pages. Index to p. 222. $19.95 paper. This collection of essays looks at the effect of the September 11"' terrorist attacks on existing legal structures in the...

Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions. (Modern History And Politics).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem and Ursula Wokock. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. x + 286 pages. Tables. Figures. Gloss. to p.288. Bibl. to p.309. Contribs. to p.313. Index to p.323. About the book. $55. This...

Open Networks Closed Regimes: the Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule. (Modern History and Politics).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003. xiv + 154 pages. Notes to p. 177. Gloss. to p. 182. Works cited to p. 200. Index to p. 215. About the authors. $18.95 paper. In this...

Targeting Terror: U.S. Policy Toward Middle Eastern State Sponsors and Terrorist Organizations, Post-September 11. (Modern History And Politics).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Matthew Levitt. Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2002. ix + 141 pages. $19.95 paper. Before publishing this monograph, Matthew Levitt headed the FBI's special terrorist investigation team piecing together the...

Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf. (Modern History And Politics).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Barry Rubin. London, UK and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002. xi + 313 pages. Index to p. 324. $57.50 cloth. The Persian Gulf will undoubtedly remain a point of political instability for years to come. The complex social change and...

The Garland Encyclopedia of Music. Volume 6. The Middle East. (Music).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Virginia Danielson, Scott Marcus, and Dwight Reynolds. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xxvii + 1075 pages. Illust. Gloss. to p. 1125. Guide to recordings to p. 1135. Guide to films and videos to p. 1137. Notes on audio examples to...

The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By M.J. Akbar. London, UK and New York: Routledge, 2002. xx + 213 pages. Gloss. to p. 217. Suggested reading to p. 227. Thumbnail sketches to p. 238. Chron. to p.250. Index to p. 272. $25. In this book, M.J. Akbar, an Indian Muslim journalist,...

Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in Europe and the Middle East. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by John L. Esposito and Francois Burgat. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. x + 269 pages. Index to p. 278. $60 cloth; $24 paper. This book is a collection of ten essays into three sections: Issues and Trends in Global...

The Place of Tolerance in Islam. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Khaled Abou El Fadl. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. ix + 111 pages. Notes so p. 116. Contribs. $15 paper. This work is in fact a dialog between preeminent scholars of Islam. Khaled Abou El Fadl, a scholar of Islamic law, writes the main essay...

Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: a Reader. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof. New York: Palgrave Press, 2002. x + 372 pages. Bibl. to p. 376. Index to p. 382. $24.95 paper. In this collection of translated essays, major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia...

Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Sohail H. Hashmi. Foreword by Jack Miles. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiv + 216 pages. Gloss. to p. 220. Index to p. 227. $55, cloth; $16.95 paper. This book brings together ten experts to discuss the...

Islam: Europe's Second Religion: the New Social, Cultural, and Political Landscape. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Shireen T Hunter. Westport, CT and London, UK: Greenwood Publishing Group, in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002. xvii + 279 pages. Sel. bibl. to p. 284. Index to p. 292. n.p. Western Europe's...

Lightning Over Yemen: a History of the Ottoman Campaign 1569-71. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Clive Smith. I.B. Tauris: New York, 2002. xiii + 191 pages. Gloss. Illust. Notes to p. 218. Bibl. to p. 221. Index to p. 226. $65 paper. This translation makes available for the first time in English the work of the sixteenth-century Meccan...

Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies. (Women).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ed. by Pinar Ilkkaracan. Istanbul, Turkey: Women for Women's Human Rights, 2000. xii + 433 pages. Contribs. to p. 440. Credits to p. 444. Index to p. 455. $19.95. This book brings together forty contributing authors, who are experts, academics...

Secondary Breadwinners: Israeli Women in the Labor Force. (Women).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Vered Kraus. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. x + 264 pages. Refs. to p. 268. Index to p. 285. $66.95. Secondary Breadwinners provides an in-depth examination of women's roles in the Israeli labor force sine the 1960's. Kraus's...

The World of Obituaries: Gender and Cultures Over Time. (Women).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... By Mushira A. Eid. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 284 pages. Tables. Appends. to p. 305. Notes to p. 317. Refs. to p. 332. $39.95. This book investigates cultural and historical gender representation through obituaries. By...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2003... 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...