Middle Eastern Studies articles from April 2003

Middle Eastern Studies archives from April 2003

Modernity, change and dictatorship in Iran: the new order and its opponents, 1927-29.
April 1, 2003... The early Pahlavi period in Iran has conventionally been seen through the prism of its state-building effort. Attention has been focused almost exclusively on the high politics of the Tehran elite and a positive or negative balance sheet drawn...

Muhacir Bulgarian workers in Turkey: their relation to management and fellow workers in the formal employment sector.
April 1, 2003... This article is concerned with Muhacir Bulgarians in Turkey--the term used in Turkey for immigrants from the Balkans, particularly from Bulgaria. Our interest is in their distinct sociological presence in the formal manufacturing sector of the...

Bible and soil: Walter Clay Lowdermilk, the Jordan Valley project and the Paltestine debate.
April 1, 2003... In 1918, at the joint request of the Zionist Organization and Sir Lionel Abrahams of the India Office, Sir Louis Dane, Settlement Officer in the Peshawar province of India, and Sir John Benton, formerly Inspector General of Irrigation in India,...

A good international citizen: H.V. Evatt, Britain, the United Nations and Israel, 1948-49.
April 1, 2003... Dr H.V. Evatt, Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Labor government, presided over Australian foreign policy at a critical juncture in the history of his nation, the British Empire...

Sephardim, Ashkenazim and the 'Arab question' in pre-First World War Palestine: a reading of three Zionist newspapers.
April 1, 2003... In a provocative essay published in the Jewish monthly ha-Schiloah in 1907 under the title 'The Hidden Question', Yitzhak Epstein opened the public debate among the Jewish community in Palestine regarding the Arab question in the country. (1)...

A new kind of pilgrimage: the modern tourist pilgrim of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Palestine.
April 1, 2003... Today, in the transition period between the millenniums, it is obvious that pilgrimage has been a key factor in determining and shaping Palestine's history and territory alike. As a land sacred to the three monotheistic religions, Palestine has...

Egypt's revolutionary publishing culture, 1952-62.
April 1, 2003... Since the mid-1950s, numerous scholarly studies have sought to analyse and explain the Free Officers' revolution in Egypt. (1) Most conclude that the Free Officers achieved political supremacy by first co-operating with the civilian government....

Remembering through material culture: local knowledge of past communities in a Turkish Black Sea town.
April 1, 2003... This article looks at the interaction between narratives and material culture in the study of the local history of Tirebolu, a small town on the Turkish Black Sea coast. It derived from a larger project which had a different focus. The original...

The Ottoman view of British presence in Iraq and the Gulf: the Era of Abdulhamid II.
April 1, 2003... Throughout his lengthy reign, Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909) was preoccupied by his Empire's vulnerability to the European Great Powers. It was not simply that he feared military attack, and knew that his chances of resisting it were slim; he...

Ultra-nationalist literature in the Turkish Republic: a note on the novels of Huseyin Nihal Atsiz.
April 1, 2003... Nationalism has been an important ingredient in Turkish political literature in the Republic of Turkey. Its tone was largely determined by the Republic's founder and its President during its first 15 years, Mustafa Kemal. Briefly phrased, this...

Some European travellers in the Middle East.
April 1, 2003... A curious characteristic of several European travellers in the Middle East, is their lack of interest in what lay immediately before them. The modern Middle East, its peoples and places, were of little moment as compared with the vestiges of...

A History of Modern Yemen.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Paul Dresch Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xviii + 285, bibliography, index, 22 illustrations. 37.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 0-521-79092-1 (cloth); 0-521-79482-X (paper). This...

Demographic Developments and Population Policies in Ba'thist Syria.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Onn Winckler Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. Pp.xv + 218, 14 figures, 33 tables, bibliography, index. 60.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 1-902210-16-6. This comprehensively researched study of population growth...