Middle East Quarterly articles from March 2007

Middle East Quarterly archives from March 2007

My problem with Jimmy Carter's book.(Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid)
March 22, 2007... Jimmy Carter's engagement in foreign affairs as a former president is unprecedented in U.S. history. Because he regards the Arab-Israeli conflict as among Washington's most important foreign policy topics, he has written more than two dozen...

Iraq in books.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Iraq war has pumped adrenaline into the publishing industry. Whereas five years ago, few bookstores included any selections on Iraq, today dozens of Iraq books line the shelves. There have been three waves of Iraq-related publishing: First...

AP gets it wrong on Baghdad mosques.(Associated Press)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... The Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. But at least one story he told the AP just doesn't check out: The Sunni mosques that Hussein claimed and AP reported as "destroyed," "torched," and...

Iran in books.(We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs)(The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom)(Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty)(Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope)(The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran)(Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East)(Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic)(Iran's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook)(The Persians)(Iran-Persia: Ancient and Modern)(Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution)(Iran's Strategic Weapons Programmes: A Net Assessment)(The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs": How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Iran may seem like a difficult country for Americans to get to know. It has been almost three decades since Washington and Tehran have had diplomatic relations. he Islamic Republic gives few Americans visas and, counting all diplomats and...

Turkish Airlines staff sacrifice camel.(Turkish Airlines Inc.)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... To mark the last delivery of 100 aircraft, maintenance workers clubbed together to buy the beast--and then consumed it. The sacrifice took place at Istanbul international airport. "They didn't ask permission," a spokeswoman for the airline...

Turkey in books.(Snow (book))(My Grandmother)(Those Crazy Turks)(Metal Storm 1 and 2)(Letter to Turkosceptics)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey in 1923, the Turkish Republic has clung to secularism and nationalism as bedrock principles. After the introduction of the multiparty democratic system in 1946, the struggle between hard-line...

"You marry mine and I'll marry yours!".(Al-Dossary and Al-Qahtani marry eachothers teenage daughters)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... RIYADH -- With the aim of strengthening business ties, two Riyadh business partners in their 70s have married their teenage daughters (17-19) to each other, reported Sayyidati magazine, a sister publication of Arab News. "A man has the...

Saudi Arabia in books.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The United States has a bipolar relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulfemirates. On one hand, Western economies remain dependent on imported oil of which the Saudi fields are an important source. On the other hand, many policymakers...

Egypt in books.(Book review)
March 22, 2007

Lebanese panic over Israeli balloons.(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... An Israeli promotional campaign involving balloons caused panic among Lebanese civilians Saturday when the wind carried them over the border into southern Lebanon. The Lebanese media reported that some civilians were hospitalized after...

Can there be an Islamic democracy?
March 22, 2007... Are Islam and democracy compatible? A large literature has developed arguing that Islam has all the ingredients of modern state and society. Many Muslim intellectuals seek to prove that Islam enshrines democratic values. But rather than lead...

Five-year-old's bare shoulders "may offend".(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... A FIVE-year-old girl's passport application was rejected because her photograph showed her bare shoulders. Hannah Edwards's mother, Jane, was told that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country. Mrs. Edwards, a...

Middle East strongmen, ancient and modern.(Democracy's Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance)(Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia)(Book review)
March 22, 2007

Privileging the vernacular.(The Olive Tree Dictionary: A Transliterated Dictionary of Conversational Eastern Arabic)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Olive Tree Dictionary: A Transliterated Dictionary of Conversational Eastern Arabic (Palestinian). By J. Elihay. Jerusalem: Minerva Instruction & Consultation, 2006. 767 pp. $102.50, paper. The normal order of language acquisition by...

The Barzani chameleon.
March 22, 2007

Does Prime Minister Erdogan accept Turkish secularism?(Tayyip Erdogan)
March 22, 2007

The Middlebury Arabic school.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2007... To the Editor: I would like to congratulate Franck Salameh for tackling an issue too often taboo in discussion of Arabic language instruction ("Middlebury's Arabic Morass," MEQ, Summer 2006). To address the singer Fayrouz and to disparage...

"The Israel lobby".
March 22, 2007... To the Editor: Every time an academic writes about "the Israel lobby," invariably something is missing. Whether it is Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer grossly exaggerating the lobby's power, or David Verbeeten minimizing it in the Fall...

Ad blitz satirizes Lebanon's divides.(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... BEIRUT -- The evening was tense, as most are these days in Beirut. Malak Beydoun, a young woman, pulled her car into a parking lot in the Christian neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh. She peered at a billboard overhead, alarmed and then indignant. ...

Abdul Karim Nabil Sulayman.
March 22, 2007... On November 6, 2006, Egyptian security forces in Alexandria arrested 22-year-old Abdul Karim Nabil Sulayman, better known by his pen name Karim Amir, for posting articles critical of the state and Islam on a personal blog. His arrest occurred...