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Middle East Quarterly articles from June 2002
A quarterly journal dedicated to contemporary Middle Eastern affairs, published by the Middle East Forum. Contains studies, interviews, commentary, and reviews covering a broad range of political, economic, social and cultural concerns. The scope includes
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Middle East Quarterly archives from June 2002
American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... American Jihad: The Terrorists Living among Us. By Steven Emerson. New York, N. Y. Free Press, 2002, 261 pp. $26.
In the best tradition of investigative reporting, Emerson has written a must-read account if one is to understand the events of...
Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam. By Khaled M. Abou El Fadl. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2001. 419 pp. $45, paper.
The title derives from the author's presumption that each of his sixty-two essays "was...
A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt. By Eberhard Kienle. London/New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. 274 pp. $59. 50 ($24. 50, paper).
Written in French by a German and then translated into English, A Grand Delusion is...
Islam and Protestant African-American Churches, Responses and Challenges to Religious Pluralism.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Islam and Protestant African-American Churches, Responses and Challenges to Religious Pluralism. By Marsha Snulligan Haney. San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1999. 304 pp. $78. 95.
Haney sets out to "provide a means and a...
The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict.
June 22, 2002... The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict. Edited by Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin. Sixth Revised Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. 580 pp. $17, paper.
To paraphrase an axiom from American sports about...
Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Edited by Avraham Sela. New York: Continuum Publishing, 1999. 815 pp. $125.
If you can handle the $125 price, Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East is an excellent reference volume. It offers pithy...
The Rise and Fall of the Hashimite Kingdom of Arabia.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Rise and Fall of the Hashimite Kingdom of Arabia. By Joshua Teitelbaum. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 310 pp. $40.
Imagine if King Husayn had ruled for four decades not the rump state of Jordan but Saudi Arabia. The...
The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region. By Neamatollah Nojumi. New York, N. Y.: Palgrave Publishers Ltd., 2002. 260 pp. $18. 95, paper.
Nojumi's study of the decades-long war in...
Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network. Yonah Alexander and Michael S. Swetnam. New York: Transnational Publishers, 2002. 69 pp. $17. 50, paper.
As the world wonders what happened to the elusive Usama bin Ladin, two authors...
Ve Gar Ze'ev im Ze-ev: Ha Mitnachalim Ve Ha Palistinaim.
June 22, 2002... Ve Gar Ze'ev im Ze'ev: Ha Mitnachalim Ve Ha Palistinaim. By Joseph Alpher. Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 2001. 141 pp. 70 shekels, paper.
In his dramatically titled book (And the Wolf Shall Dwell with the Wolf, The...
Winds of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Winds of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran. By Reza Pahlavi. Washington, D. C.: Regnery Publishing, 2002. 152 pp. $24. 95.
Reza Pahlavi, pretender to the Iranian throne, has had a good year. Not only has he been the subject of major...
U.S. diplomacy: even-handed, empty-handed.(Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
June 22, 2002... Since the eruption of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities in September 2000, the United States has faced the dilemma of formulating a policy response. The nature of the violence is clear and almost predictable in its routine. Not so U.S. policy,...
Has Israel used indiscriminate force?
June 22, 2002... Since the outbreak of the current violence, Israeli military tactics have been the subject of much criticism. Israel, it is claimed, engages in the "unnecessary use of lethal force," (1) including (American-made) warplanes and helicopter...
Palestinian uprisings compared.
June 22, 2002... History, it is said, does not repeat itself, or revisits tragedy as farce. This is not so in the Palestinian case, where tragedy has been followed by tragedy. A critical look at modern Palestinian history reveals that the current crisis, driven...
War on Terrorism scorecard.
June 22, 2002... September 11, 2001, was a watershed in the history of terrorism. Until September 11, fewer than 1,000 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad in over thirty years. Before this date, no one terrorist operation...
Guile, gas, and germs: Syria's ultimate weapons.(part 1)
June 22, 2002... This is Part I of a two-part examination of Syria's chemical and biological weapons--how Syria built them, configures them, and (in Part II) might even use them.--The Editors
Syria today is a prominent member of the chemical and biological...
The unbearable lightness of my critics.
June 22, 2002... In the late 1990s, I took issue with a group of Israeli academics and journalists who called themselves the "new historians," and who claimed to be offering a revisionist history of the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict in general and the 1948...
Council on Foreign Relations: improving U.S. public diplomacy.(Transcript)
June 22, 2002... Editors' preface:
In the aftermath of September 11, the United States government, the media, and the American public were taken aback by Muslim and Arab expressions of support for Usama bin Ladin and by the intensity of anti-American...
Arabic panic.(effect of September 11, 2001 bombings on Middle Eastern studies)
June 22, 2002... Stocking stuffer. "During or after this crisis, [the academics] will find some pliant senator or congressman willing to propose additional budgets for Middle Eastern studies under the rubric of national security." I made that prediction in The...