The Middle East Journal articles from September 2004

The Middle East Journal archives from September 2004

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... At the beginning of the year, we at The Middle East Journal addressed the question of how, it at all, we should address the fact that 2004 marked the 25th Anniversary of one of the major turning points of the contemporary Middle East, the...

Ideology and pragmatism in Iran's foreign policy.
September 22, 2004... This essay hypothesizes that the tension between religious ideology and pragmatism has persisted throughout Iranian history. The Iranian Revolution simply put it on graphic display in the contemporary period. The essay also suggests that the...

For a white revolution: John F. Kennedy and the Shah of Iran.
September 22, 2004... The story of American relations with Iran during the Kennedy administration is one of misunderstandings and missed opportunities. Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi often manipulated and thwarted Kennedy's policy toward Iran and used American fears of...

Wanting to have their cake and their neighbor's too: Azerbaijani attitudes towards Karabakh and Iranian Azerbaijan.
September 22, 2004... Azerbaijan's foreign policy agenda, even prior to independence in 1991, has been largely dominated by two main issues: how to regain the Armenian-occupied region of Nogorno-Karabakh, and what relationship the state should have with the millions...

A culture of poverty or the poverty of a culture? Informal settlements and the debate over the state-society relationship in Egypt.
September 22, 2004... Problems facing informal ("squatter") settlements in Egypt have increasingly gained public exposure through both media coverage and scholarly debates. Whereas the state public discourse reflects a pretence for developing these areas, this...

Will new blood in the leadership produce new blood on the battlefield? The impact of regime changes on Middle East military rivalries.
September 22, 2004... The Middle East has witnessed a recent spate of alterations in rulers and regimes. These new leaders are coming to power in countries having a history of international conflict with other states in the region. Will the change in government...

Chronology: April 16, 2004-July 15, 2004.(Calendar)
September 22, 2004... ABBREVIATIONS AFP, Agence France Presse Al-Jazeera, http://english.aljazeera.net/homepage All Africa, www.allafrica.com AN, www.arabicnews.com AP, Associated Press BBC, www.bbc.co.uk CNN, www.cnn.com Daily...

Focus on US policy: from the Eisenhower Doctrine to the War in Iraq.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East, by Salim Yaqub. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 337 pages. $59.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. L'Orient arabe a l'heure americaine: De la...

Anti-Semitism and US-Israel relations: trouble for Middle East specialists--and their critics.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Never Again?: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism, by Abraham H. Foxman. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. xii + 279 pages. Source notes to p. 294. Index to p. 305. $24.95. Not since the 1950s, when Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) defamed...

Re-legitimizing anti-Semitism: not the time for silence.
September 22, 2004... Under the guise of examining new legislation that would attempt to mitigate the impact of supporters of terrorism on university campuses, Duncan Clarke engages in a smear campaign against me and, indeed, the organized American Jewish community....

The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan, by Jeffery J. Roberts. Westport, CT and London, UK: Praeger Publishers, 2004. xvii + 240 pages. Bibl. to p. 259. Index to p. 268. $69.95. Historian Jeffery Roberts has written a detailed, fully...

Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961, by Peter L. Hahn. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. x + 293 pages. Notes to p. 366. Bibl. to p. 387. Index to p. 398. $45. For...

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968. Vol. XIX. Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968. Vol. XIX. Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967, ed. by Harriet Dashiell Schwar. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2004. 1063 pages. Index to p. 1087. $69. This long-awaited and...

Israeli and Palestinian Identities in Dialogue: The School for Peace Approach.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Israeli and Palestinian Identities in Dialogue: The School for Peace Approach, ed. by Rabah Halabi. Trans. by Deb Reich. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. viii + 189 pages. Bibl. to 196. Contribs. to p. 198. Index to p. 204....

In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century, by Nelly Hanna. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004. ix + 177 pages. Notes to p.193. Bibl. to p. 208. Index to p. 219. $45 cloth; $19.95...

Iranian History and Politics: The Dialectic of State and Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Iranian History and Politics: The Dialectic of State and Society, by Homa Katouzian. London, UK: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 304 pages. $114.95. This book consists of 12 chapters, most of which have appeared before as articles in scholarly...

Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, by Abbas Milani. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2004. 168 pages. Acknowledgements. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, by Charles Kurzman. Cambridge, MA, and London,...

Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo, by Michael M. Laskier. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2004. xv + 286 pages. Appends. to p. 303. Notes to p.330. Bibl. to p. 340. Index to p. 351. $65. From the Israeli...

Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel, by Yoram Peri. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. 319 pages. Notes to p. 335. Index to p. 376. $24.95. There is no dearth of books on Israeli politics; works on the Israeli media have...

A History of Jordan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A History of Jordan, by Philip Robins. London, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii + 204 pages. Map. Chron. Notes to p. 223. Bibl. to p. 232. Index to p. 243. $60 cloth; $22 paper. Philip Robins has written a succinct...

Crucial Images in the Presentation of a Kurdish National Identity: Heroes and Patriots; Traitors and Foes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Crucial Images in the Presentation of a Kurdish National Identity: Heroes and Patriots; Traitors and Foes, by Martin Strohmeier. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xvii + 203 pages. Bibl. to p. 266. Annex to p. 242. Illustrations to p. 256. Index to p. 265....

Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp, by Maya Rosenfeld. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi + 318 pages. Notes to p. 345. Bibl. to p. 365. Index to p. 376....

Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia, by Thomas W. Lippman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004. 354 pages. $27.50. This is a wonderful, well-written book on an important and timely subject. While I do not know...

The Alevis in Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Alevis in Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition, by David Shankland. London, UK and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 185 pages. Appends, to p. 207. Notes to p. 224. Bibl. to p. 236. Index to p. 240. $114.95. Until...

The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature, by Andrea Flores Khalil. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. x + 134 pages. Appends. to p. 139. Notes to p. 147. Bibl. to p. 154. Index to p. 160. $62.95. In The...

Islam, Charity, and Activism: Middle-Class Networks and Social Welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Islam, Charity, and Activism: Middle-Class Networks and Social Welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen, by Janine A. Clark. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. 2004. xvii + 161 pages. Notes to p. 203. Bibl. to p. 225. Index...

Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices, by S.A. Nigosian. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. xix + 129 pages. Appends to p. 139. Gloss. to p. 143. Notes to p. 154. Bibl. to p. 168. Index to p. 178. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper....

The Encyclopaedia of Islam CD-ROM Edition Vol. 1-9 (A-S).(Sound recording)
September 22, 2004... The Encyclopaedia of Islam CD-ROM Edition Vol. 1-9 (A-S), ed. by Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. $550. With the mad proliferation of books on Islam...

Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt.(Egypt)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt, ed. by Elie Podeh and Onn Winckler. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. xv + 342 pages. Sel. bibl. to p. 354. Contribs. to p. 357. Index to p. 365. $59.95....

Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq.(Iraq)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq, by Christopher Catherwood. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004. 230 pages. Bibl. to p. 234. Notes to p. 261. $:26. The author, a former advisor to British Prime Minister Tony...

The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics.(Iraq)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics, by Tareq and Jacqueline S. Ismael. London, UK and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2004. x + 209 pages. Notes to p. 248. Bibl. to p. 259. Index to p.271. $22.50 paper. The authors...

Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan.(Pakistan)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan, by Oskar Verhaaik. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xi + 187 pages. Maps. Figures. Chron. Gloss. Notes to p. 198. Bibl. to p. 209. Index to p. 214. $55 cloth; 17.95...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia.(Saudi Arabia)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Complete Idiot s Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia, by Colin Wells. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha, 2003. xii + 274 pages. Appends. to p. 296. Index to p. 315. $18.95. This layman's guide to Saudi Arabia seeks to familiarize the reader with the...

Inside the Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia.(Saudi Arabia)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Inside the Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia, by Carmen Bin Ladin. New York, NY: Warner Books, 2004. x + 204 pages. Acknowledgments to p. 206. $23.95. Brought up a freethinking independent European woman, the author describes her experience...

Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising.(Education And Media)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising, by Daniel Dor. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. 168 pages. Notes to p. 173. Bibl to p. 179. Index to p. 184. $19.95...

A Short Reference Grammar of Iraqi Arabic.(Language And Literature)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Short Reference Grammar of Iraqi Arabic, by Wallace W. Erwin. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. xvii + 394 pages. $29.95. Using Arabic spoken by the educated in Baghdad, Erwin's book is ideal for those beginning their study...

Chaos of the Senses.(Language And Literature)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Chaos of the Senses, by Ahlan Mosteghanemi. Tr. by Baria Ahmar. Cairo, Egypt and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2004. 224 pages. $22.50. The sequel to 1993's Memory in the Flesh, which was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for...

The Saint of Incipient Insanities.(Language And Literature)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Saint of Incipient Insanities, by Elif Shafak. New York: Farrar, Straus an Giroux, 2004. 368 pages. $25. Shafak's first book written in English tells the story of three foreigners recently arrived in the United States. Omer leaves his...

Arab Unity and Disunity: Past and Present.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Arab Unity and Disunity: Past and Present, by Fuad Baali. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc, 2004. xi + 50 pages. Bibl. to p. 55. $16 paper. Baali writes an historical account of the sources and expressions of Arab unity and...

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties, by Craig Unger. New York NY: Scribner, 2004. vii + 280 pages. Appends. to p. 301. Notes to p. 336. Sel. bibl. to 340. Index to p. 356. $26....

The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage, by Frederick P. Hitz. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 189 pages. Notes to p. 195. Acknowledgments to p. 197. Index to p. 208. $22. Fiction and history both play a part in this analytical work...

Fatal Future? Transnational Terrorism and the New Global Disorder.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Fatal Future? Transnational Terrorism and the New Global Disorder, by Richard M. Pearlstein. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. xiv + 199 pages. Notes to p. 128. Bibl. to p.186. Index to p.198. $55 cloth; 22.95 paper. Understanding...

A World Challenged: Fighting Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A World Challenged: Fighting Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century, by Yevgeny M. Primakov. Washington, DC: Nixon Center/Brookings Institution Press, 2004. viii + 150 pages. Notes to p. 140. Index to p. 150 $22.95. Authored by former Soviet...

Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk, by Walter Russell Mead. New York: Alfed A. Knopf, 2004.216 pages. Index to p. 226. $19.95. By the author of Special Providence, this book considers the recent...

Rising from the Muck: The New Anti-Semitism in Europe.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rising from the Muck: The New Anti-Semitism in Europe by Pierre-Andre Tguieff. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. xi + 240 pages. $26. In this study, the author examines the current anti-Semitism in France and asserts that not since before World...

Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11, by Paul L. Williams. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. 178 pages. Appends. to p. 218. Notes to p. 245. Index to p. 261. $25. In this work, the author, a former consultant to the FBI, details the possibilities...

Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War, by Steve A. Yetiv. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. 234 pages. Appendix. Notes to p. 265. Bibl. to p. 279. Index to p. 288. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper,...

Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda, by Larry Everest. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004. 329 pages. Chron. to p. 341. Notes to p. 376. Index to p. 391. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. According to Larry Everest, the author of...

Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East: Houses In Motion.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East: Houses In Motion, ed. by Relli Shecter. New York NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 189 pages. Bibl. to p. 205. Index to p. 215. $59.95. Exploring a subject often ignored...

Understanding Terror Networks.(Modern History And Politics)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Understanding Terror Networks, by Marc Sageman. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ix + 184 pages. Appends. to p. 189. Gloss. to p. 192. Bibl. to p. 212. Index to p. 218. Acknowledgments. $29.95. Understanding why people...

Historical Atlas of Islam.(Philosophy, Religion, And Science)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Historical Atlas of Islam, by Malise Ruthven with Azim Nanji.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2004. 195 pages. Photos. Chron. to p.199. Gloss to p.202. Further reading to p.203. Index to p.208. $35. Ruthven and Nanji have created in...

The Polymath.(Philosophy, Religion, And Science)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Polymath, by Bensalem Himmich. Tr. by Roger Allen. Cairo, Egypt and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2004. x + 228 pages. Gloss. to p.242. Qur'anic refs. to p. 244. $22.50. Winner of the seventh Naguib Mahfouz Medal for...

Fundamentalisms Comprehended.(Philosophy, Religion, And Science)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Fundamentalisms Comprehended, ed. by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby Chicago, IL and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. x + 504 pages. Contribs. to p. 507. Index to p. 522. $35 paper. This is the fifth volume of the...

Off Screen: Four Young Artists in the Middle East.(Photography)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Off Screen: Four Young Artists in the Middle East, by Al Braithwaite et al. New York: Abrams/ STC, 2004. 168 pages of color illustrations. $32.50. Compiled by four young Western artists, this stirring collection of photographs, sketches, and...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2004... 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...