Middle Eastern Studies articles from April 1993

Middle Eastern Studies archives from April 1993

The educational system of Iraq.
April 1, 1993... The Ba|th ideological trinity is: unity, freedom and socialism. Arabism, not Islam, is the spirit behind the Ba|thi revolution, and Arab unity became to the early Ba|thists far more important than freedom and socialism. The key ideological...

Islamic 'newspeak': language and change in revolutionary Iran.
April 1, 1993... The Iranian revolution of 1978-79, which was supported by nearly all the ideological trends in the country, religious and secular, is considered one of the most important events in the modern history of Iran and the Islamic world at large....

The Turkish Communist Party: the fate of the founders.
April 1, 1993... On 28 January 1921 the founder of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), Mustafa Subhi and 14 leading Turkish communists were murdered off the coast of Trabzon when they were forced to return to the Soviet Union only one month after their arrival...

Germany and the Arab question in the First World War.
April 1, 1993... In April 1917, Husayn Ibn Ali, the sharif of Mecca and instigator of the Arab revolt against the Turks and Germans in World War I, received a report from his British ally that the enemy had started a new policy of trying to woo the Arabs away...

The Palestinian movement in the territories: the middle command. (Israeli-occupied territories)
April 1, 1993... Whether uprisings, which almost always break out spontaneously, are later organized by new men or professional revolutionists, is a question frequently debated in the academic literature. Schiff and Yaari, in their informative book on the...

The Egyptian-Sudanese integration scheme: an appraisal.
April 1, 1993... In July 1983 Egypt and the Sudan established an Economic Fund, the fundamental purpose of which is to achieve the ultimate goal of an economic union between the two countries. The Fund is to provide financial and technical support for viable...

Kuwaiti ownership of Warba and Bubiyan Islands.
April 1, 1993... The islands of Warba and Bubiyan, lying on the head of the Arabian Gulf, emerged as strategically the most important sites at the beginning of this century owing to their location and the Ottoman designs on them. The islands once again drew the...

Harvest of shame: Tudeh and the Bazargan Government. (Mehdi Bazargan's Provisional Revolutionary Government in Iran)
April 1, 1993... I mistrust the Tudehis. They always betray you. M. Bazargan The Tudehis do not lie. That they are back-stabbers is a fabrication made by the imperialists to cover up their atrocities against communists. Mardom (Tudeh...

The United States and Egypt: confrontation and accommodation in northeast Africa, 1956-60.
April 1, 1993... Foreign policy analyses typically focus upon crises to learn about international behavior. In so doing, subtle and important changes in a bilateral relationship may go unnoticed. For instance, during the second half of the 1950s the western...

Southern Sudan: Too Many Agreements Dishonoured.
April 1, 1993... Sudan: Diversity and Conflict in an Unstable State Abel Alier, Mansour Khalid and Peter Woodward have written three books with much in common.(1) They are scholars or politicians with deep knowledge and long experience in the Sudan. They...

The Government They Deserve: The Role of the Elite in Sudan's Political Evolution.
April 1, 1993... Sudan: Diversity and Conflict in an Unstable State Abel Alier, Mansour Khalid and Peter Woodward have written three books with much in common.(1) They are scholars or politicians with deep knowledge and long experience in the Sudan. They...

Sudan: 1898-1989, The Unstable State.
April 1, 1993... Sudan: Diversity and Conflict in an Unstable State Abel Alier, Mansour Khalid and Peter Woodward have written three books with much in common.(1) They are scholars or politicians with deep knowledge and long experience in the Sudan. They...

Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement: 1925-1948.
April 1, 1993... In the history of Zionism prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, the Revisionist movement and its founding father, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, were notorious -- particularly in Labour Zionist circles -- for their provocative and militant...

From Palmerston to Balfour: Collected Essays of Mayir Verete.
April 1, 1993... Mayir Verete (1915-1990) was a scholar whose chosen mode of intellectual expression was through learned articles rather than through a monograph in which he might have presented in consolidated form what was evidently a clear view of the...

Musaddiq, Iranian Nationalism and Oil.
April 1, 1993... Muhammad Musaddiq has undoubtedly been one of the most eminent, yet highly controversial, figures of twentieth-century Iran, who left his mark not only on the Iranian history of his time but also on generations to come. His struggle (against...

Mohammad Mossadegh: A Political Biography.
April 1, 1993... Muhammad Musaddiq has undoubtedly been one of the most eminent, yet highly controversial, figures of twentieth-century Iran, who left his mark not only on the Iranian history of his time but also on generations to come. His struggle (against...

Arms for the Horn: U.S. Security Policy in Ethiopia and Somalia, 1953-1991.
April 1, 1993... The cold war made the Horn of Africa a vast receptacle for weaponry. For some three decades arms were the currency with which the United States and the Soviet Union bought bases and political influence in Ethiopia and Somalia, two countries...

The French Revolution and Southeastern Europe.
April 1, 1993... With his earlier original monograph on Iosipos Moisiodax (1725-1800), a leading eighteenth-century humanist and Enlightenment figure in the Balkans, published in Athens in 1985, Professor Kitromelides of Athens University and Director of the...

Albert Hourani: in memoriam. (Middle East scholar) (Obituary)
April 1, 1993... Albert Hourani, who died on 17 January 1993, was born in Manchester in 1915 of Lebanese parents, and grew up in a Christian Lebanese home. His father was a merchant who traded mainly with the Levant and maintained strong ties with his native...