Middle Eastern Studies articles from April 1998

Middle Eastern Studies archives from April 1998

P.J. Vatikiotis: an appreciation.(Obituary)
April 1, 1998... P.J. (Taki) Vatikiotis, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, died peacefully in his sleep on 15 December 1997 aged 69, after a long illness. He was a consummate scholar, a...

Persian nationalism and the campaign for language purification.
April 1, 1998... Decades before it began its political struggle against European domination, modern nationalism in Iran had created its own `domain of sovereignty'. In its first stage of confrontation with Europe, Persian nationalism divided the world of ideas...

Ahmad Kasravi on economics.
April 1, 1998... Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946) had a great impact on the intellectual transformation of Iran, and his writings continue to influence the modern generation of Iranians. His enduring importance is evident in the continual reissue of his books, in the...

Muhammad Inshaullah and the Hijaz Railway.
April 1, 1998... `We have woven the motherland from four comers with nets of iron.' This line, from the March commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Turkish Republic in 1933, is testimony to the role of railways in knitting together the emerging fabric of...

The compliant ally? Turkey and the West in the Middle East: 1954-58.
April 1, 1998... Conventionally, Turkey's policy towards the Middle East in the 1950s is described as pro-Western in general, and pro-American in particular. However, records released in Britain and the United States in the 1980s reveal that this is too...

Economic reform, privatization and tourism in Egypt.
April 1, 1998... Since the promulgation of al-infitah (`economic opening') by Anwar Sadat in 1974, Egypt has gradually moved away from the state-led development (SLD) economic orthodoxy of the Nasser period, replacing SLD and import substitution policies with a...

Slave trade in the Sudan in the nineteenth century and its suppression in the years 1877-80.
April 1, 1998... The subject of slavery and the slave trade in the Sudan during the nineteenth century has been discussed in a number of books and articles.(1) As a rule these do not analyse the struggle to suppress the slave trade itself, but refer mainly to the...

Syria and Mesopotamia in British Middle Eastern policy in 1919.
April 1, 1998... By the autumn of 1919 Britain was encountering serious difficulties in the Middle East. To Lord Curzon, Chairman of the Inter-Departmental Conference on the Middle East, and as Acting Foreign Secretary and from October 1919, Foreign Secretary...

Turkey and the enlargement of the European mind.
April 1, 1998... The relationship between Turkey and the European Union (EU) attracted much attention in the closing months of 1997. A fierce debate raged round what appeared to be an abstruse point. This was whether Turkey, an associate member of the European...

Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey.
April 1, 1998... Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey by robin Denniston. Stroud Sutton Publishing; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xv + 208, bibliography, index, illustrations. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback)....

The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict.
April 1, 1998... The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict by Kemal Kirisci and Gareth Winrow. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp. xvi + 237, bibliography, index. 32.50 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 17.50 [pounds...

The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran: 1910-1926.
April 1, 1998... The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1910--1926 by Stephanie Cronin. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. Pp. vii + 296, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling] . Before considering the contents and...

Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East.
April 1, 1998... Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Efraim Inbar. No. 4 in the Cass Series on Political Violence. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp viii + 264, index. 29.50 [pounds sterling] (hardback);...

Indigo in the Arab World.
April 1, 1998... Indigo in the Arab World by Jenny Balfour-Paul. London: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. xx + 283, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. `Blue' has a certain emotional resonance in the West -- as songs of the old jazzmen,...

Languages of Dress in the Middle East.
April 1, 1998... Languages of Dress in the Middle East directed by Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Bruce Ingham. London: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. 196. 12.99 [pounds sterling] . The way people dress in the Middle East fascinated travellers, orientalists and...