Middle Eastern Studies articles from April 1995

Middle Eastern Studies archives from April 1995

The condition of mine labour in Turkey: injuries to miners in Zonguldak, 1942-90.
April 1, 1995... There are few students of development and modernization who would deny a concern with quality of life, but industrial injury remains a neglected indicator of this. It is an indicator which exists for the Zonguldak coalfield in Turkey by virtue of...

Druze and Jews in the war of 1948. (Israel-Arab War of 1948-49)
April 1, 1995... The relations between the Palestinian Druze and the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine) commenced after the riots of 1929. They consolidated during the Palestinian rebellion in 1936-39 and the early years of the Second World War. Embracing...

The Religious Kibbutz Movement and its credo, 1935-48.
April 1, 1995... During the modern era, groups have organized themselves in many a variegated fashion to establish agricultural settlements in a new world. Some groups organized themselves on a common ethnic basis while others fused along the axis a common and...

Preserving the Sheikhdom: London, Washington, Iraq and Kuwait, 1958-61.
April 1, 1995... Despite the catastrophic ending of the Suez campaign of 1956 Britain remained a presence in the Middle East and continued to take an active role in the affairs of the region. Kuwait was an area of special economic importance. The conservative...

Kuwait public commercial investments in Arab countries.
April 1, 1995... Though Arab countries are, generally speaking, developing countries in need of foreign capital, they number amongst them rich capital exporting countries. Hence it is only natural that substantial inter-Arab capital flows, of both a developmental...

American support for the 1952 Egyptian Coup: why? (Free Officers coup of 1952)
April 1, 1995... The emergence of the United States of America as a world power following the Second World War developed American interest in the security of the Middle East. In the East-West struggle for global superiority, the Middle East came to be seen...

Occupation and withdrawal, 1801-3.(The Geopolitics of the First British Expedition to Egypt, Part 4)
April 1, 1995... When the British ambassador, Lord Whitworth, was recalled from Paris on 13 May 1803 and the British government declared war on France, they fought for the reason they had fought in 1798, to head off a French invasion of Egypt. Although Napoleon...

International trade and surplus transfer: Iran in the nineteenth century.
April 1, 1995... The issue of trade between industrialized capitalist economies and newly capitalist or semi-capitalist economies has always been controversial. There are various theories regarding the effects of international trade on the latter group of...

Gamal Abd al-Nasser and an example of diplomatic acumen. (Egyptian Pres. Gamal Abdel Nasser)
April 1, 1995... Gamal Abd al-Nasser has been praised at times and criticized on other occasions for a succession of diplomatic successes and failures throughout his tenure in power in Egypt. One incident in which he displayed his diplomatic acumen has gone...

The Arabian Nights: A Companion.
April 1, 1995... Alf Layla wa-Layla (One Thousand and One Nights), or The Arabian Nights as the book is more commonly known in English, continues to fascinate and arouse the serious interest of scholars, even though until relatively recently it was dismissed as...

Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origin's of Egypt's 'Urabi Movement.'
April 1, 1995... Since the late 1970s, a growing number of non-Egyptian scholars, mostly young and US-trained, have been given permission to do research at the Egyptian National Archives. Many of them have chosen to study the nineteenth century, often from a...

On Both Banks of the Jordan: A Political Biography of Wasfi al-Tall.
April 1, 1995... It may be noted that several scholarly monographs about Jordan published in the last 10-15 years have been by Israeli authors, reflecting a keen Israeli curiosity about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, across or on the East Bank of the Jordan...

The Shi'is of Iraq.
April 1, 1995... Recently, a member of the Iraqi Shii opposition in exile, Yusuf Al-Kho'i, criticized the international community for its indifference towards the Shiis of Iraq and their persecution at the hands of the Ba'th. The Iraqi Shiis, he maintained were...

Iraq's Road to War.
April 1, 1995... The watershed that followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait led many observers to reconsider some of their previous views on Iraq and its designs in the Middle East. In view of Iraq's structural weakness and the resulting oscillation between...

The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire.
April 1, 1995... The 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492-1992) and their settlement in the Ottoman Empire has occasioned several new studies of the Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire. Professor Avigdor Levy's study provides those...

The Jews of Yemen in the Nineteenth Century: A Portrait of a Messianic Community.
April 1, 1995... By B-Z. Klorman. Leiden: Brill, 1993. Pp.xii + 209. Since the mid-1980s, there have appeared about a dozen monographs in English (paralleled by publications in Hebrew and French) discussing Jews in Middle Eastern countries in the nineteenth and...

North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria.
April 1, 1995... Since the mid-1980s, there have appeared about a dozen monographs in English (paralleled by publications in Hebrew and French) discussing Jews in Middle Eastern countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Jewish communities which are...

Russian Ships in the Gulf: 1899-1903.
April 1, 1995... By Efim Rezvan. London: Ithaca Press, 1993. Pp.ix + 165. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The policy of containment had a curious effect on the geographical perceptions of both those against whom it was directed and those who implemented it. In the...

The Soviet Union and its Southern Neighbours: Iran and Afghanistan, 1917-1933.
April 1, 1995... By Mikhail Volodarsky. London Frank Cass, 1994. Pp.xii + 196. 30 [pounds sterling]. The policy of containment had a curious effect on the geographical perceptions of both those against whom it was directed and those who implemented it. In the...

The Soviet Union and Egypt: 1945-1955.
April 1, 1995... The policy of containment had a curious effect on the geographical perceptions of both those against whom it was directed and those who implemented it. In the case of Soviet decision-makers, containment, particularly its manifestation as a series...

Tribes, Government and History in Yemen.
April 1, 1995... By Paul Dresch. Oxford: Clarendon Paperbacks, 1993. Pp.440, index, plates 15.95 [pounds sterling]. The place of Yemen in the study of the modern Middle East has mirrored that of the country itself in the history of the region: moments of...

Yemen, passe et present de l'unite.
April 1, 1995... Edited by Michel Tuchsherer. Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Mediterranee no.67, 1993. Pp.186. FF100. The place of Yemen in the study of the modern Middle East has mirrored that of the country itself in the history of the region: moments of...

Steppes d'Arabies: Etats, pasteurs agriculteurs et commercants; le devenir des zones seches.
April 1, 1995... Edited by Ricardo Bocco, Ronald Jaubert and Francoise Metral. Presses Universitaires de France, 1993. Pp.401. SF32. The place of Yemen in the study of the modern Middle East has mirrored that of the country itself in the history of the region:...

Island of the Phoenix: An Ethnographic Study of the People of Socotra.
April 1, 1995... The place of Yemen in the study of the modern Middle East has mirrored that of the country itself in the history of the region: moments of interest and of accessibility have, all too often, been followed by obscurity or marginalization. Although...

Quest for Conception: Gender Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions.
April 1, 1995... The struggle of poor urban Egyptian women against their infertility is documented in this most needed volume. Marcia Inhorn takes her reader through a journey of survival undertaken by infertile Egyptian women whose souls, bodies and status are...

War, Water and Negotiation in the Middle East: The Case of the Palestine-Syria Border, 1916-1923.
April 1, 1995... This is a brilliant piece of diplomatic history. It deals in great detail and at the same time with much clarity with the arcana of the lengthy and complicated negotiations over the Palestine-Syria boundary. These negotiations between the British...