Middle East Quarterly articles from September 2003

Middle East Quarterly archives from September 2003

Resistance in Iraq.
September 22, 2003... Armed resistance to occupation has emerged as a major problem in postwar Iraq. It has become a prime concern of the United States, and casts a shadow over its postwar plans for the country. The United States has set very high goals for its...

When rogues defy reason: Bashar's Syria.(Bashar Assad)
September 22, 2003... Even after the extraordinary U.S.-British military display of last spring, rogue states and terrorists continue to threaten U.S. national security. While this observation may seem prosaic, the White House predicted that victory in Iraq would...

"Thank you for everything. But do not stay." An exchange with the late Nizar Hamdoon.(Interview)
September 22, 2003... Introduction by Daniel Pipes, publisher of the Middle East Quarterly: I first met Nizar Hamdoon in mid-1985 when he was Iraq's immensely popular ambassador in Washington. He promoted the thesis that Iran had started the war with Iraq and...

The decline of the Arabs.
September 22, 2003... The Arabs... are in a double state of decay that boggles the minds even of those who expected a hot summer of post-war decadence... The [Arab] nation will be split between those who dance to the beat of scandal and defeat, and...

Egypt and Israel: a reversible peace.
September 22, 2003... For the first thirty years of Israel's existence, Egypt was its archenemy. The two countries fought a war per decade for four decades: 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973. President Anwar Sadat's historic decision of 1977 to achieve peace with Israel...

Turkey-Israel: speed bumps.
September 22, 2003... In the 1990s, the world witnessed the forging of a unique entente between Turkey, a predominantly Muslim secular democracy, and the Jewish state of Israel. A range of shared interests brought the two states into alignment, reinforced by joint...

That which gets lost in translation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture and Exegesis. By Hussein Abdul-Raof. Surrey: RoutledgeCurzon, 2001. 197pp. $75. According to an "impregnable dogma" of early Islam, the Qur'an has the quality of i'jaz, by which its rhetorical beauty...

Cairo.(book)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cairo. By Andre Raymond. Translated by Willard Wood. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. 448 pp. $35. For a comprehensive, straightforward history of Cairo in all its major aspects, this is the only such reference work in...

Illegal Construction in Jerusalem: a Variation on an Alarming Global Phenomenon.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Illegal Construction in Jerusalem: A Variation on an Alarming Global Phenomenon. By Justus Reid Weiner. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2003. 172 pp. $50. This is not a book that Rashid Khalidi will like, which is perhaps...

Palestinian Refugees: the Right of Return.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return. Edited by Naseer Aruri. London, Pluto Press, 2001. 294 pages. $69.95 ($22.50, paper). Few phrases have epitomized the Palestinian and Arab rejection of Israel's legitimacy more clearly than the...

Sacrificing Truth: Archaeology and the Myth of Masada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Sacrificing Truth: Archaeology and the Myth of Masada. By Nachman Ben-Yehuda. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. 300 pp. $35. Following-up Ben-Yehuda's 1995 book on the "Masada myth" in Israeli society, [4] in which he discussed the...

Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion. Edited by Ramzy Baroud. Seattle: Cune Press, 2003. 288 pp. $29.95 ($17.95, paper). Searching Jenin is a vile and shallow propaganda screed published by a small press that...