Middle East Quarterly articles from September 2002

Middle East Quarterly archives from September 2002

The return of Hizbullah.
September 22, 2002... In early April 2002, Israel and Hizbullah seemed to be on the brink of war. Hizbullah had stepped up its military operations against Israeli targets, both military and civilian, along the border, creating a situation that Israel could tolerate no...

Poisoned missiles: Syria's doomsday deterrent.
September 22, 2002... This is Part II of a two-part examination of Syria's chemical and biological weapons (CBW). Part I, which appeared in the Summer Middle East Quarterly, revealed how Syria built its capabilities. Part II catalogues Syria's...

Formula for stability: Turkey plus Israel.
September 22, 2002... The 1990s loom like the lost decade in the Middle East. The carefully-constructed house of cards known as the Arab-Israeli "peace process" lies in a heap. Saddam Husayn still menaces his neighbors and the region. And the prime export of the...

Israel, India, and Turkey: triple entente?.
September 22, 2002... On September 11, as al-Qa'ida cells prepared to launch their assaults on Washington and New York, a remarkable event was taking place half a world away. In New Delhi, Israeli defense and intelligence officials, led by National Security Advisor...

Postmortem on a phony war.(War on Terrorism)
September 22, 2002... "For them, war would consist of fighting as little as possible."--Charles de Gaulle, on Franco-British policy between September 1939 and June 1940. [1] By spring 2002, the Bush administration's pretense that it was making war...

Those young Arab Muslims and us.
September 22, 2002... The months that have passed since September 11, 2001, have prompted much reflection among Arabists, as among all Americans. We professional Arabists, in particular, have asked ourselves this question: Why have young, male, Arab Muslims figured so...

How the Arabs compare: Arab Human Development Report 2002.
September 22, 2002... On July 2, 2002, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released the Arab Human Development Report 2002. The report, compiled by a "group of distinguished Arab intellectuals" led by Egyptian statistician Nader Fergany, has resonated in the...

MESA culpa.(Middle East Studies Association of North America )
September 22, 2002... Edwardians. Here's a novel way to mark one year since the tragedy of September 11, 2001: honor Edward Said. This is the choice of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), and its companion associations in Europe. On the...

1979: The Year that Shaped the Modern Middle East.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... 1979: The Year that Shaped the Modern Middle East. By David W. Lesch. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2001. 200 pp. $65 ($21, paper). "In my opinion," writes Lesch, "future Middle East historians and social scientists will conclude that the...

The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land's Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium, A Reporter's Journey.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land's Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium, A Reporter's Journey. By Charles M. Sennott. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 512 pp. $30. Unlike the Holy Land pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II, when a...

The Furute of Economics: An Islamic Perspective.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Future of Economics: An Islamic Perspective. By Muhammad Umer Chapra. Markfield, Leicester, U.K.: The Islamic Foundation, 2000. 446 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling] (13.95 [pounds sterling], paper). When thinking about Islam and economics, the...

Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East. By Clement Henry and Robert Springborg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 276 pp. $55 ($20, paper). Designed as a part of the textbook series, The Contemporary Middle...

Green Cresent over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christian by Muslims in the Holy Land.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Green Crescent over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land. By Raphael Israeli. London: Frank Cass & Co., 2002. 194 pp. $59.50 (paper, 24.50). As recently as 1995, the geographer Chad Emmett could write a study of...

Iran at the Crossroads.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Iran at the Crossroads. Edited by John Esposito and R.K. Ramazani. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 248 pp. $49.95. Optimism was in the air following Muhammad Khatami's surprise 1997 election as president of Iran. Surely the overwhelming public...

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide. By Bat Ye'or. Trans. from French by Miriam Kochan and David Littman. Madison, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2001. 528 pp. $60 ($19.95, paper). The scholar who goes by the...

Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol.I.Israel's Transition form Community.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol. I. Israel's Transition from Community to State. Edited by Efraim Karsh. London: Frank Cass, 2000. 264 pp. $57.50 ($26.50, paper). The thirteen chapters in this collection cover Israel's first half-century,...

Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol.II.From War to Peace?(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol. II. From War to Peace? Edited by Efraim Karsh. London: Frank Cass, 2000. 288 pp. $57.50 ($26.50, paper). The second volume under Karsh's editorship examining Israeli history [4] tackles the two dominant...

Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol.III.Israeli Politics and Society Since 1948: Problems of Collective Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol. III. Israeli Politics and Society Since 1948: Problems of Collective Identity. Edited by Efraim Karsh. London: Frank Cass, 2002. 288 pp. $59.50 ($26.50, paper). The third volume [5] promises to examine a...

Israel's National Security towards the 21st Century.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Israel's National Security towards the 21st Century. Edited by Uri Bar-Joseph. London: Frank Cass, 2001. 212 pp. $59.50. This collection of essays could have been better, but it got stuck on the typical academic penchant for theory. Two of the...

Korah Hahafrada: Yisrael Ve Harashut Hafalestinit.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Korah Hahafrada: Yisrael Ve Harashut Hafalestinit [Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Authority]. By Dan Schueftan. Tel-Aviv: Zmora-Bitan Publishers & Haifa University Press, 1999. 271 pp. $22. Schueftan's study on unilateral Israeli...

The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Spy Ship.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Spy Ship. By A. Jay Cristol. Dulles, Va.: Brassey's, 2002. 320 pp. $27.50. Rarely, if ever, has a single incident of war received the scrutiny given to Israel's attack in the midst of...

Middle East Politics Today: Government and Civil Society.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Middle East Politics Today: Government and Civil Society. By Tareq Y. Ismael. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2001. 510 pp. $59.95. If you can stomach hundreds of pages of Iraqi apologetics, anti-American potshots, and seething...

Public Policy in Israel.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Public Policy in Israel. Edited by David Nachmias and Gila Menahem. London: Frank Cass, 2002. 280 pp. $59.50 ($26.50, paper). Domestic public policy analysis in Israel is a long-neglected field, in part because Israel is nearly a one-issue...

Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism. By Azzam S. Tamimi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 268 pp. $49.95. Rashid al-Ghannushi, the 61-year-old exiled leader of the Tunisian Islamist movement An-Nahda, has resided since 1989 in...

Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles, and the Search for Consensus.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles, and the Search for Consensus. Edited by Lawrence Potter and Gary Sick. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 284 pp. $22.95, paper. Arabs, Middle Easterners, and Muslims are the usual categories in which...

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. By Michael B. Oren. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 446 pp. $30. In a spare and direct way, replete with quotations, Oren has written the best book ever on the...

The State and Global Change: The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and North Africa.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The State and Global Change: The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Hassan Hakinmian and Ziba Moshaver. Richmond, Surrey, U.K.: Curzon Press, 2001. 270 pp. $90 ($35, paper.) Academics often complain...

Black Pilgrimage to Islam.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Black Pilgrimage to Islam. By Robert Dannin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 368 pp. $35. Dannin's ethnographic study seeks both to explain the appeal of Islam to African-Americans and explore "issues of theology, religious...