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Middle East Quarterly articles from March 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 March 2002
Betrayal of Palestine: The Story of George Antonius.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Betrayal of Palestine: The Story of George Antonius. By Susan Silsby Boyle. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2001. 347 pp. $38.
George Antonius (1891-1942) was the "new historian" of his day. In 1938, he published The Arab Awakening, a book that...
Central Asia: Prize or Quicksand?(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Central Asia: Prize or Quicksand? By Kenneth Weisbrode. Adelphi Paper 338. London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2001. 96 pp. $45, paper.
Looking at a map, Central Eurasia - or, as U.S. scholars prefer, the Caspian region,...
Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941. By Mohammad Gholi Majd. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 560 pp. $59.95.
Once upon a time, university presses published scholarly books - boring and arcane ones...
Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran. By Michael Rubin. Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001. 123 pp. $19.95, paper.
Into the Shadows is a stark reminder of how radical elements from Iran's...
L'Islamisme: une revolution avortee?(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... L'Islamisme: une revolution avortee? By Antoine Basbous. Paris: Hachette Litteratures, 2001. 283 pp. Euro 17.38, paper.
For a well-informed and readable account of the Islamist problem in the Middle East, L'Islamisme is about the best. Basbous,...
Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. By Martin Kramer. Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001. 137 pp. $19.95.
While specific predictions are impossible, good scholarship has a way...
Makers of Contemporary Islam.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Makers of Contemporary Islam. By John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 257 pp. $17.95, paper.
To their credit, Esposito and Voll conducted exhaustive research into the thought of nine modern Islamists....
The Oslo Accords: International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The Oslo Accords: International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreements. By Geoffrey R. Watson. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 429 pp. $72.
While I was immersed in negotiating the 1993 "Oslo agreement," the first in...
Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey. By Paul White. London and New York: Zed Books, 2000. 258 pp. $69.95 ($25, paper).
White argues that the Kurdish national movement in Turkey had progressed...
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan. By Michael Griffin. London and Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press, 2001. 272 pp. $27.50, paper.
Afghanistan faded from American memories in the 1990s, only to resume center stage in 2001. By...
A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani. By Abdulaziz A. al-Sudairi. London: I.B. Tauris and the Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1999. 221 pp. $35.
By the time of his death, Manchester-born Albert Hourani (1915-93)...
War and Slavery in Sudan.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... War and Slavery in Sudan. By Jok Madut Jok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 211 pp. $55 ($24.95, paper).
Slavery and the rape of enslaved women and girls in the context of warfare are both internationally recognized crimes...
The camera and the 'burqa.'('Beneath the Veil' and 'Kandahar')
March 22, 2002... "The burqa is an abomination, that's understood, but it does not prevent
one from thinking that it is also photogenic."
--Christophe Ayad, film critic (1)
It was a mercifully short war, the campaign to drive the Taliban from...
Lebanon: the Intifada's false premise.(Palestian Intifada's use of tactics of Lebanese Hizbullah to drive out Israel)
March 22, 2002... On May 24, 2000, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) completed a unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon, ending a 22-year occupation. Shi'ite guerrillas from the Hizbullah and Amal militias, which had waged a war of attrition against Israeli...
Israel's parliamentary Intifada.(actions of Arab representatives in the Knesset)
March 22, 2002... The world has been riveted by the "Al-Aqsa intifada," an uprising that has filled the media with graphic images of violence. When the media mention "the Palestinians," they mean West Bankers and Gazans. But at the same time, a different type of...
Iraq and Syria: the dilemma of dynasty.(Ba'th Party and succession in Iraq and Syria)
March 22, 2002... Syria and Iraq, two neighboring Arab states, are both under highly personalized rule and share a unique fraternal bond. Both are descended from the same ideological branch of the Arab nationalist tree: the revolutionary populism of the Ba'th...
Camp David, real and evented.(analyzing the 1999 Middle East peace talks)
March 22, 2002... It is not often that two articles are enough to shake a powerful pillar of conventional wisdom and trigger an international firestorm. The influence of these articles, "Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors," by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha in The...
The Arab betrayal of Balkan Islam.
March 22, 2002... In the wake of the atrocities of September 11, many American and other Western commentators have asked a perplexing question. They point out that the aim of the last three wars fought by the United States and its allies was to rescue Muslim or...
Bin Ladin: the man who would be Mahdi.(Osama Bin Ladin; Mahdi, leader of the cleansing forces before armageddon)
March 22, 2002... Terrorists are media celebrities par excellence, and Usama bin Ladin has become the most celebrated one of all time. But what if he is not satisfied with the transient fame conferred by the media and his status as darling of those Muslims who...
Edward Walker: 'Hizbullah is a terrorist organization.'(Middle East Institute founder)(Interview)
March 22, 2002... Washington took notice when Edward S. Walker retired from the Foreign Service last year and assumed the presidency of the Middle East Institute. Walker had just completed a 34-year career in diplomacy, including stints as U.S. ambassador to the...
Jihad 101.(predicting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and examining the reasons behind it)(Column)
March 22, 2002... Professors and Pundits: An occasional column devoted to makers and brokers of ideas
Predict this. Who even imagined the possibility of a September 11? Well, you might say, Steven Emerson and Daniel Pipes did. Well, you are wrong. Richard...