The Middle East Journal articles from September 2002

The Middle East Journal archives from September 2002

Editor's note.
September 22, 2002... As this issue was preparing to go to press, the United States appeared determined to remove Saddam Husayn from power by any means necessary, the Palestinian Authority was again under siege by Israel, and Turkey was preparing for potentially...

The politics of incoherence: the United States and the Middle East.
September 22, 2002... The world today is caught in the midst of fundamental incoherence. Old systems tear and unravel while new systems have not yet formed to take their places. The challenge of incoherence is especially acute in the Middle East where gaps,...

Who owns the Shebaa farms? Chronicle of a territorial dispute.
September 22, 2002... The roots of the border controversy in the Shebaa farmland lie in the clumsy manner France delineated the Syrian-Lebanese boundary during the Mandate years. Since 1920, maps located the area within Syria. However, for all practical matters, the...

Explaining the Oslo Backchannel: Norway's political past in the Middle East.
September 22, 2002... The signing of the 1993 Oslo agreement showed an astonished world the extent to which the small state of Norway had contributed to one of the most serious attempts at peace in the Middle East since the creation of Israel in May 1948. Through...

Algeria's policy toward Israel: pragmatism and rhetoric.
September 22, 2002... This article is an analysis of Algerian-Israeli relations. The author argues that Algeria did not come to terms with Israel largely due to the rigidity of the FLN's (Front de Liberation National) ideology and to the popularity of the Islamic...

Arab views of Soviet policy in the era of glasnost, 1985-1991.
September 22, 2002... This study examines Egyptian, Syrian, and Palestinian perceptions of Soviet involvement in the Arab-Israeli dispute during perestroika. The goal is to find out how the Arabs perceived the Soviet stand during Gorbachev's rule. The study focuses...

Arab-Israeli Affairs. (Chronology: April 16, 2001-July 15, 2001).
September 22, 2002... AN, arabicnews.com BBC, British Broadcasting Company (www.bbc.co.uk) FT, Financial Times NYT, The New York Times WSJ, The Wall Street Journal WP, The Washington Post Arab-Israeli Affairs See Also, Information Technology,...

Petroleum Affairs. (Chronology: April 16, 2001-July 15, 2001).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Apr. 20: The US Senate decided to ban American oil companies from buying Iraqi oil. The proposal, which banned both direct and indirect oil and oil-byproduct imports coming from Iraq, received 88 votes in favor and 10 in opposition. [AN, 4/20]...

Regional Affairs. (Chronology: April 16, 2001-July 15, 2001).
September 22, 2002... Apr. 17: In a speech at Virginia Military Institute, President George Bush renewed calls for a campaign against countries representing the "axis of evil," and outlined the second stage of America's military conflict in Afghanistan, Operation...

Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919-29: King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama, by Senzil K. Nawid.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Costa Mesa: CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. xxi + 193 pages. Photographs to p. 210. Tables to p. 216. Appends to p. 244. Gloss. to p. 250. Bibl. to p. 268. Index to p. 278. $45. Reviewed by M. Jamil Hanifi The triumvirate of state, tribe,...

On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Linda Boxberger. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. xix + 246 pages. Appends. to p. 251. Notes to p. 276. Select bibl. to p. 286. Index to p. 292. $68.50 cloth; $22.95 paper. Reviewed by Ulrike Freitag This study of...

Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Martha Brill Olcott. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002. xii + 244 pages. Abbrevs. Map. Appends to p. 267. Notes to p. 300. Sel. bibl. to p. 320. About the author. $44 cloth; $24.95 paper. Reviewed by...

Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Donald Malcolm Reid. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 2002. xiii + 297 pages. Maps. Figures. Appendix to p. 30. Notes to p. 363. Sel. bibl. to p. 383. Index to p. 409. $35. Reviewed by Kenneth...

Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Afshin Matin-asgari. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2002. xiii + 165 pages. Notes to p. 226. Illust. to p. 246. Append. to p. 259. Bibl. to p. 275. Index to p. 286. $35 cloth; $28 paper. Reviewed by Ervand Abrahamian Stock...

Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Behzad Yaghmaian. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. x + 232 pages. Notes to p. 261. Bibl. to p. 266. Index to p. 269. $62.50 cloth; $20.95 paper. Reviewed by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Olivier Roy predicted that one...

Debating Islam in the Jewish State: The Development of Policy Toward Islamic Institutions in Israel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Alisa Rubin Peled. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. xii + 158 pages. Appends. to p. 166. Notes to p. 208. Bibl. to p. 228. Index to 239. $62.50 cloth; $20.95 paper. Reviewed by Michael Dumper The strength of the...

Rabin and Israel's National Security.(Israeli general, diplomat, politician, statesman, Yitzhak Rabin)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Efraim Inbar. Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Press, 1999. xiv + 190 pages. Notes to p. 246. Bibl. to p. 266. Index to p. 276. $32. As a general, diplomat, politician and...

Hizb'ullah: Politics & Religion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb. London, UK: Pluto Press, 2002. x + 191 pages. Appends. to p. 193. Gloss. to p. 195. Notes to p. 234. Bibl. to p. 242. Index to p. 254. $22.50 paper. The subject of Hizb'ullah (Hizballah, Part) of God) has generated...

Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Samir Khalaf. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xxiv + 328 pages. Notes to p. 334. Bibl. to p. 351. Index to p. 368. $32.50. According to the dust jacket notes, this is "a long-awaited work." It is nowhere suggested by whom, but...

America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Lawrence Davidson. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001.222 pages. Notes to p. 252. Bibl. to p. 257. Index to p. 264. $55. Explaining United States policy toward the Middle East has always been difficult. Neither ideology...

Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and the Italian Renaissance, 1300-1600.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Rosamond Mack. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 2002. ix + 188 pages. Notes to p. 222. Gloss. to p. 225. Bibl. to p. 240. Index to p. 257. $65. The Italian Renaissance had long been defined as...

The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Nesta Ramazani. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xvi + 294 pages. Gloss. to p. 302. $26.95. This book is an autobiographical account of the life of the author in Iran from childhood to marriage. It spans a period from...

Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Naomi Sakr. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2002. xii + 208 pages. Tables. Gloss. Notes to p. 241. Bibl. to p. 251. Index to p. 266. $65 cloth; $22.50 paper. Satellite Realms is one of the most important, if not the most important, books...

The Israeli-Egyptian Peace Process in the Reporting of Western Journalists.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Mohammed el-Nawawy. Westport, CT and London, UK: Ablex Publishing, 2002. xiv + 187 pages. Appends. to p. 189. Refs. to p. 209. Index to p. 214. $64.95 cloth; 24.95 paper. Numerous books have explored conflict and the peace process in the...

Challenges of Modernity: Western and Islamic Perspectives.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Iliya Harik. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Saqi, 2001. (in Arabic). 413 pages, n.p. In this book, Iliya Harik presents a powerful argument for the adaptation of democracy as an ideology in order for it to be transplanted effectively and...

Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Benjamin C. Fortna. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 247 pages. Bibl. to p. 274. Index to p. 280. $74. A welcome addition to the growing body of revisionist scholarship on Ottoman education, this book provides a...

The Liberty Incident: the 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by A.J. Cristol. Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2002. 201 pages. Epilogue to p. 205. Appends, to p. 272. Bibl. to p. 294. $27.50. This is the most thorough study to date of the attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli aircraft and torpedo...

The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Abdulaziz Sachedina. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii+139 pages. Notes to p. 161. Bibl. to p. 168. Index to p. 175. $25. Abdulaziz Sachedina's goal in The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism is "to...

Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Marc Gopin. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 228 pages. Notes to p. 254. Bibl. Index to p. 269. $29.95. This volume follows closely on the heels of Gopin's first Oxford University Press book, Between Eden...

An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... vol. 1, ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Mehdi Aminrazavi. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxx + 411 pages. Bibl. to p. 413. Index to p. 434. n.p. An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 2, ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr...

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Bat Ye'or. Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 400 pages, Appends. to p. 422. Notes to p. 269. Gloss. to p. 271. Bibl. to p. 507. Index to p. 528. $60 cloth; $19.95 paper. No matter how much dispassion and...

Women in Islam: The Western Experience.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Anne Sophie Roald. London, UK and London and NewYork, 2001. xv +302 pages. Notes to p 314. List of scholars to p. 316. Gloss. to p 320. Bibl. to p. 332. Index to p. 339. $25.95 paper. This is a book about the views of a converted woman...

Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, and Cairo.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Susan Osman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. x + 162 pages. Gloss. to p. 190. Sel. bibl. to p. 196. Index to p. 204. $54.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. Susan Osman offers readers an innovative look at status, power, and cultural...

Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan. (Reference).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Kamoludin Abdullaev and Shahram Akbarzadeh. Lanham, MD and London, UK: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002. xxxiv + 233 pages. Abbrevs. Map. Tables. Chron. Appendix to p. 258. Bibl. to p. 282. About the authors to p. 284. $69.50. Tajikistan--the...

Under the Spell of Arabia. (Art and Architecture).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... photographs by Mathias Oppersdorff. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. xiv + 118 pages. Captions to p. 120. Acknowledgements. n.p. This collection of photographs contains over 100 stunning black and white pictures of the "vanished...

Sabah al-Salim Al-Sabah. Amir of Kuwait 1965-77. A Political Biography. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Robert L. Jarman. Foreword by H.E. Abdullah Bishara. London, UK: The London Centre of Arab Studies, 2002. xx + 330 pages. Frontispiece. Photos. Appendix to p. 333. Sel. bibl. to p. 338. Index to p. 348. GBP 29.50. This biography, which draws...

Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. (Language And Literature).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Bernard Lewis and Stanley Burstein. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001. xii + 183 pages. $38.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. This text gathers a wide variety of Egyptian short stories. These stories are arranged chronologically, from...

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew Poems. (Language And Literature).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Tr. and introduced by Bernard Lewis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Intro. to p. 34. Poems to p. 198. Poets to p. 216. $19.95 paper. This compilation of 129 poems is striking not only because it is a remarkable literary...

War on Terror: The Middle East Dimension. (Modern History And Politics).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Robert B. Satloff. Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2002. xii + 192 pages. $19.95 paper. This edited volume brings together US and Middle East decisionmakers, academics, and journalists to discuss major themes...

Orientalism and Colonialism: The Search for Approval in Egypt for the Undertaking in Libya. (Modern History and Politics).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Anna Baldinetti. Rome: L'Istituto per l'Oriente "C.A. Nallino," 1997. 170 pages. Archival sources and bibl. to p. 191. Index of names to p. 199. n.p. In the first decade of the 20th century, Italy, in view of its colonial annexation of...

What Jews Should Know About Islam and Muslims: Remembering a Common Heritage. (Philosophy, Religion And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Abdelwahab Hechiche. Foreword by Andre Chouraqi. Paris: Editions Publisud, 2002. xviii + 226 pages. Gloss. to p. 233. Bibl. to p. 243. Index to p. 247. n.p. This book makes an earnest effort to bridge the gap of misperceptions and misgivings...

Aspects of Avicenna. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(medieval philosopher/physician Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdallah ibn Sina)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Robert Wisnovsky. Princeton, New Jersey: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001. 135 pages. Avicenna at the ARCE to p. 172. Index to p. 182. $16.95 paper. Aspects of Avicenna explores and analyzes the ideas and works of medieval philosopher and...

Crescents on the Cross: Islamic Visions of Christianity. (Philosophy, Religion, And Science).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Lloyd V.J. Ridgeon. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi + 117 pages. Bibl. to p. 127. $19.95. This book is both academic and timely, as it confronts the prejudices, fears, and suspicions which often frame Christian...

The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. (Pre-20th Century History).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Daniel Goffman. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxiii + 234 pages. Chron. Gloss. to p. 239. Further reading to p. 251. Index to p. 273. $55 cloth; $20 paper. In this study, Daniel Goffman investigates the...

The Arabs in History. (Pre-20th Century History).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Bernard Lewis. Sixth edition, revised. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. vii + 208 pages. Chron. table to p. 216. Notes to p.219. Guide to further reading to p. 224. Index to p. 240. $15.95 paper. This most recent...

The Fayoum: History and Guide. (Pre-20th Century History).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by R. Neil Hewison. Second edition. Cairo, Egypt and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001. xi + 97 pages. Bibl. to p. 99. Index to p. 103. Maps to p. 107. $14.95 paper. The author, who has lived and worked in the Fayoum...

Muslims in the West: from Sojourners to Citizens. (Social Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvii + 292 pages. Bibl. to p. 309. Index to p. 319. n.p. This multi-case text assesses the experiences, over time, of Muslims in the West, and the host...

Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East. (Social Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early. Second edition. Indianapolis and Bloomington, IN: Indiana University of Press, 2002. xiv + 376 pages. Map. Gloss. to p. 382. Sel. readings to p. 392. Notes on contribs, to p. 397. Index to p. 411. $42...

Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity among British Muslims. (Social Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Phillip Lewis. London, UK and New York: I.B Tauris, 2002. 224 pages. Notes to p. 256. Gloss. to p. 259. Index to p. 266. This book unveils the obstacles and achievements of British Muslims. In a time when Muslims are generally described as...

Separate and Cooperate, Cooperate and Separate: the Disengagement of the Palestine Health Care System from Israel and its Emergence as an Independent System. (Social Conditions).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Tamara Barnea and Rafiq Husseini. Westport, CT and London, UK: Praeger Publishers, 2002. xix + 326 pages. Tables. Charts. Illustrations. Appendix to p. 329. Abbrevs. and gloss, to p. 335. Sel. Bibl. to p. 340. Index to p. 353. Contribs....

Writing the Feminine: Women in Arab Sources. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Manauela Marin and Randi Deguilhem. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. 235 pages. Gloss. to p. 242. Bibl. to p. 265. Index to p. 278. $65. Writing in the Feminine is the first book of a four-volume series that depicts aspects of individuality...

The Caspian Pipeline Dilemma: Political Games and Economic Losses. (Central Asia).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Hooman Peimani. Westport, CT and London, UK: Praeger Publishers, 2001. 122 pages. Bibl. to p. 128. Index to p. 134. $59. This book addresses an issue of global economic and political significance. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, energy...

Failed Transition, Bleak Future?: War and Instability in Central Asia and the Caucasus.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Hooman Peimani. Westport, CT and London, UK: Praeger Publishers, 2002. xi + 143 pages. Tables and bibl. to p. 151. Index to p. 163. $59.95. The collapse of the Soviet Union brought with it great hope for the countries of the Caucasus and...

Sticking Together: The Israeli Experiment in Pluralism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Yaakov Kop and Robert E. Litan. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. ix + 135 pages. Notes to p. 150. Index to p. 155. $22.95. This work is a result of a joint research project conducted by the Brookings Institution and the...

The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by David Kretzmer. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. x + 198 pages. Notes to p. 247. Sel. bibl. to p. 255. Index to p. 262. $65.50 cloth; $21.95 paper. This book, the only work of its kind, examines the Supreme Court of...

Management and International Business Issues in Jordan.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Hamed El-Said and Kip Becker. Binghamton, NY: International Business Press, 2002. xvi + 194 pages. Index to p. 198. $59.95 cloth; $39.95 paper. The Hashimite Kingdom is experiencing rapid changes, and facing great challenges, in its...

The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... by Kathleen Christison. Santa Fe, NM: Sunlit Hills Press/Ocean Tree Books, 2002. xiii + 254 pages. Map. Interviews to p. 264. Sel. bibl. to p. 271. Index of names to p. 274. $17.95 paper. The Wound of Dispossession claims to reveal the true...

Political Parties in Turkey. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Barry Rubin and Metin Heper. Portland, OR and London, UK: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002. vii + 146 pages. Abstracts to p. 149. Contribs. to p. 151. Index to p. 160. $59.50 cloth; $24.50 paper. This collaborative effort by a group of...

Politics, Parties and Elections in Turkey.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... ed. by Sabri Sayari and Yilmaz Esmer. Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. vi + 184 pages. Appends. to p. 215. Refs. to p. 226. Contribs. to p. 228. Index to p. 136. $55. This edited volume comprised of eight articles by...

UAE in Focus: a Photographic History of the United Arab Emirates. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... produced by the Ministry of Information and Culture, Abu Dhabi. London, UK: Trident Press Ltd., 1998. 300 pages. Foreword to p. 7. Intro. to p. 9. Photos to p. 299. n.p. The last 50 years of the Emirates' history comes alive in this collection...