Middle East Quarterly articles from September 2005

Middle East Quarterly archives from September 2005

Revisiting the Armenian Genocide.
September 22, 2005... The debate over what happened to Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I remains acrimonious ninety years after it began. Armenians say they were the victims of the first genocide of the twentieth century. Most Turks say Armenians...

Europe's problem with Ariel Sharon.
September 22, 2005... The death of Palestinian Authority chairman Yasir Arafat together with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon s commitment to withdraw from the Gaza Strip may have injected new momentum into Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, but European attitudes...

The growing Syrian missile threat: Syria after Lebanon.
September 22, 2005... Even though international pressure succeeded in forcing Damascus to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, the Syrian regime remains in the cross hairs of U.S. defense and intelligence concern about four other Syrian activities. First, the Syrian...

Saudi king to face divorce case.(Fahd )(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... A divorce case against King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said to be worth 32bn [pounds sterling] and among the world's richest men, is to be heard in a British court. London-based Janan Harb has filed a claim that she is one of the king's wives...

Hooked on Lebanon: Syria after Lebanon.(military activity effects economy)
September 22, 2005... Although Syrian troops have withdrawn from Lebanon, their departure is little more than a symbolic acknowledgment of Lebanese sovereignty, extracted under enormous pressure from the international community. They had not been directly involved...

The Chirac doctrine.(Jacques Chirac's foreign relations)
September 22, 2005... With just one-fifth the population of the United States, France boasts the world's second largest contingent of diplomats, and its consulates and embassies number just eight fewer than the State Department s 260. (1) The French investment in...

The council on foreign relations does the Middle East.
September 22, 2005... Both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations have faced challenges from the Middle East and Islamist terror. Both administrations wrestled with questions of unilateralism versus multilateralism, the efficacy of military force, failures...

Alexander Downer: "extremist Islam holds little appeal".(Australia's peace negotiations in Israel and Palestine)(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Alexander Downer has served as Australia's minister for foreign affairs for nearly a decade. Born in 1951, he received a bachelor's degree in politics and economics from the University of New Castle-on-Tyne in the United Kingdom. He entered the...

William Eagleton: "The Foreign Service has changed much".(social and political conditions in Iraq)(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Ambassador William Eagleton, one of the State Department's foremost Middle East experts, has been involved in Middle Eastern affairs for more than fifty years. He entered the Foreign Service in 1949, after serving two years in the U.S. Navy....

Green money, Islamist politics in Turkey.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... To the Editor: With regard to Michael Rubin's article, "Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey" (Winter 2005), please note that an industrial enterprise such as ours--a world trademark whose products are known and in demand in more than...

Post-Zionism and the Serphardi question.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... To the Editor: In "Post-Zionism and the Serphardi Question" (Spring 2005), Meyrav Wurmser labeled me a post-Zionist. Any reasonable analysis of my work makes clear that I am not. Wurmser cited my book, Hatikshoret Beyisrael: Merkaz...

Beheading in the name of Islam.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... To the Editor: Timothy Furnish unfairly labels several professors and commentators "apologists" for their statements that beheadings have no theological justification in Islam ("Beheading in the Name of Islam," Spring 2005). Nowhere does...

Al-Qaeda's Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Al-Qaeda's Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror. By Jonathan Schanzer. New York: Specialist Press, 2004. 222 pp. $17.95, paper. Al-Qaeda's Armies, in which this reviewer is thanked in the acknowledgments,...

Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World. By Katharine Scarfe Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 276 pp. $65. Beckett studies the nearly five centuries from the rise of an Islamic policy (A.D. 622) to the first...

Building a Successful Palestinian State.(The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State, Helping a Palestinian State Succeed: Key Findings)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Building a Successful Palestinian State. By The RAND Palestinian State Study Team. 407 pp. $35, paper. The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State. By Doug Suisman, Steven N. Simon, and Glenn E. Robinson. 93 pp. plus DVD. $32.50, paper....

Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict. By Samir Khalaf. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 368 pp. $18.50, paper. Khalaf, a sociologist at the American University of...

The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life. By Lawrence Rosen. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 230 pp. $24 ($17, paper). Drawing upon his experiences as an anthropologist in Morocco, Rosen...

Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam. By Abdullah Saeed and Hassan Saeed. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 227 pp. $99.95 ($29.95, paper). The apostate is a Muslim who leaves Islam--or who is accused of being an enemy of Islam. The...

Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East. By David Leeming. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. $22. Leeming, an emeritus professor of English at the University of Connecticut, is best noted for his biography of...

The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict between Iran and America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict between Iran and America. By Kenneth M. Pollack. New York: Random House, 2004. 539 pp. $26.95. The standoff with the Islamic Republic of Iran has frustrated each of the last five U.S. presidents, going back...

Politics in Israel: The Second Republic.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Politics in Israel: The Second Republic (second ed.). By Asher Arian. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2005. 447 pp. $35.95, paper. Many academics focus upon Israel only in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Arian, a political science...

Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East. By Jeremy Bowen. Thomas Dunne Books: St. Martin's Press, 2005. 420 pp. $29.95. It is easy to be annoyed at this flawed attempt at a comprehensive account of the Six-Day war. But the book...

Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli Jewish Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli Jewish Society. By Daniel Bar-Tal and Yona Teichman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 483 pp. $68. If you think stereotypes dictate and determine all...

Dissident watch: Arash Sigarchi.(weblogger and journalist arrested in Iran)
September 22, 2005... On January 17, 2005, Iranian security forces arrested 28-year-old Iranian journalist and weblogger Arash Sigarchi for espionage and insulting leaders of the Islamic Republic. Sigarchi, editor of the daily Gilan Emrooz (Gilan (1) Today), had...