Middle East Quarterly articles from January 2003

Middle East Quarterly archives from January 2003

The logic of Israel's targeted killing.
January 1, 2003... Israelis dislike the term "assassination policy." They would rather use another term--"extrajudicial punishment," "selective targeting," or "long-range hot pursuit"--to describe the pillar of their counterterrorism doctrine. But semantics do not...

Does Basher al-Assad rule Syria?.
January 1, 2003... Bashar al-Assad's ascent to power following the death of his father, Hafiz al-Assad, on June 10, 2000, surprised no one. It had been an open secret in Syria for some years that this was Hafiz al-Assad's wish. [1] Nevertheless, President Assad's...

Requiem for Arab nationalism.
January 1, 2003... It took some time for the light to go out on Arab nationalism, but its power generator went down in June 1967. After the Six-Day War, the slide of Arab nationalism toward political marginality became irreversible. And what finished it was the...

Islamism, Moroccan-style: the ideas of Sheikh Yassine.
January 1, 2003... Is Morocco's monarchy vulnerable to Islamist challenge? For now, the answer would appear to be "no." The Moroccan monarchy, unlike the classic "revolutionary" Arab republics (Algeria, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt), explicitly invokes religion as part...

The smoking gun: Arab immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931.
January 1, 2003... In deep antiquity, particularly in Egypt, the early civilization where the arts were most strongly developed, the visualization was aspective: that is the artist, working in paint or low-relief sculpture, conveyed to his...

Policy and the academy: an illicit relationship?.
January 1, 2003... One of the issues that is much discussed since September 11, 2001, is the proper relationship between policy and the academy. For a host of reasons, a very wide gap exists between the two. In part, this has to do with the political...

U. S. department of state: marriage to Saudis.
January 1, 2003... Over the past year, the U.S.-Saudi relationship has come under intensified public scrutiny in the United States. One of the many issues that have been thrust to the fore is the status of American women married to Saudis and of the dual-national...

Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid. By Ralph H. Magnus and Eden Naby. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2002. 304 pp. $17.50, paper. The 2001 military campaign against the Taliban and al-Qa'ida resulted in unprecedented American interest...

Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East: A Documentary Reader.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East: A Documentary Reader. Edited by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). 392 pp. $30. Whence comes Middle Eastern terror against America in recent decades?...

The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Lessons for India and Pakistan.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Lessons for India and Pakistan. Edited by Moonis Ahmar. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. 339 pp. $29.95, paper. "Both Palestine and Kashmir are important flashpoints in the world today," writes the editor...

Disarming Iraq: Monitoring Power and Resistance.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Disarming Iraq: Monitoring Power and Resistance. By Michael V. Deaver. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. 168 pp. $64.95. Saddam Hussein has posed the United Nations (U.N.) with its greatest test since the Korean War. Security Council Resolution...

Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. By Peter L. Bergen. New York: The Free Press, 2001. 304 pp. $26 ($14, paper). The author produced an exclusive interview with Usama bin Ladin that aired on CNN in May 1997 and has...

Iran: i'illusion Reformiste.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Iran: l'illusion reformiste. By Mohammad-Reza Djalili. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2001. 125 pp. 12 [euro], paper. Europe's political elite has been aghast at the Bush administration's policy towards Iran. Compounding his reference in the...

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. By Gilles Kepel. Trans. from French [3] by Anthony F. Roberts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. 416 pp. $29.95. One way to become a Famous Intellectual in France is to take a nonsensical...

Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls. By Jahangir Amuzegar. London: I.B. Taurus, 2001. 282 pp. $24.50, paper. During the 1970s, it was predicted that the thirteen countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...

Militant Zionism in American: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948. By Rafael Medoff. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 304 pp. $39.95. The title may echo another militant "ism"...

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the War on Terrorism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism. By Robert Baer. New York: Crown Publishers, 2002. 288 pp. $25.95. September 11, 2001, brought to a larger audience the controversy on-going for years among foreign...

The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defence Force.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force. By Martin van Creveld. New York: Public Affairs, 1998. 320 pp. $27.50 ($17, paper). Impressive military victories in 1948-49, 1956, 1967, and 1973 garnered the Israel...

Syria and the Palestinians: The Clash of Nationalisms.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Syria and the Palestinians: The Clash of Nationalisms. By Ghada Hashem Talhami. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2001. 256 pp. $55. Talhami, a Palestinian expatriate and political science professor at Lake Forest College, set...

The Talibanization of Nigeria: Sharia Law and Religious Freedom.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Talibanization of Nigeria: Sharia Law and Religious Freedom. Edited by The Center for Religious Freedom. Washington, D.C.: Freedom House, 2002. 101 pp. $8, paper. Twelve of Nigeria's thirty-six states have already adopted or plan to adopt...

Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution: Political and Social Transition in Iran Since 1979.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution: Political and Social Transition in Iran since 1979. Edited by Eric Hooglund. Syracuse University Press, May 2002. 176 pp. $19.95, paper. In the weeks following the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian newspapers...

Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements. By Richard T. Antoun. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 192 pp. $69 ($19.95, paper). There is much to commend in this general and accessible overview of comparative...

War on Terror: The Middle East Dimension.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... War on Terror; The Middle East Dimension. Edited by Robert B. Satloff. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2002. 192 pp. $19.95. In October 2001, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy held a conference to...

What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. By Bernard Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 192 pp. $23. Lewis, the last century's foremost interpreter of Middle East politics and society, opens the new one with...