Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 1999

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 1999

In Search of `Historical Correctness': The Ba`th Party in Syria.
January 1, 1999... `How do we write our national history?' Under this title, the journal al-Ma`rifa, published by the Syrian Ministry for Culture and National Guidance, opened a debate in 1965 which involved 15 Arab intellectuals of various nationalities,...

Coming to Terms with Failed Revolutions: Historiography in Syria, Germany and France.
January 1, 1999... ... One specific interest of `invented traditions' for, at all events, modern and contemporary historians ought to be singled out. They are highly relevant to that comparatively recent historical innovation, the `nation', with its associated...

Past and Present in Local Histories of the Ottoman Period from Syria and Lebanon.
January 1, 1999... Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. What animates such appeals is not only disagreement about what happened in the past and what the past was, but uncertainty about whether the past...

Late Ottoman Rule over Palestine: Its Evaluation in Arab, Turkish and Israeli Histories, 1970-90.
January 1, 1999... The aim of this article is to analyse the scholarly and journalistic literature dealing with late Ottoman rule in Palestine (1840-1918) by Arab, Turkish and Israeli historians writing between 1970 and 1990. The `parties' that were directly...

British Agricultural-Educational Institutions in Mandate Palestine and their Impress on the Rural Landscape.
January 1, 1999... Government agricultural-educational institutions in Palestine under the British Mandate were undeniably important agents of change in the country. Though Britain's imperialists did not set out to educate the indigenous populations of their...

Changes in the Design of the Urban Space of the Arabs of Haifa during the Israeli War of Independence.
January 1, 1999... The Israeli War of Independence caused far-reaching changes in the cultural landscape of Palestine, which necessitate many geographical studies to complete our understanding of the history of the period. The boundaries of Israel were determined...

The Intifada and the New Political Role of the Israeli Arab Leadership.
January 1, 1999... The period of the Palestinian uprising in the territories (the Intifada, 1987-92) and the period of the subsequent left-centre government in Israel contributed immeasurably to formulating the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians....

British Intelligence and the Causes of Unrest in Mesopotamia, 1919-21.
January 1, 1999... In the autumn of 1920 Major N.N.E. Bray, a special intelligence officer attached to the Political Department at the India Office, wrote (in one case in conjunction with the War Office) three major reports on the causes of unrest in Mesopotamia,...

Women's Organizations in 1990s Turkey: Predicaments and Prospects.(Review)
January 1, 1999... This article analyses the nature and the structure of women's organizations in 1990s Turkey. It surveys women's organizations and attempts to position them in their national and international political contexts by reviewing the types of gender...

Vetluga Memoir. A Turkish Prisoner of War in Russia, 1916-1988.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Vetluga Memoir. A Turkish Prisoner of War in Russia, 1916-1988 by Mehmet Arif Olcen, Introduction and Epilogue by Ali Nejat Olcen (ed.), translated and edited by Gary Leiser. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. Pp.246, index. 36.00...

Armed Struggle and the Search for State -- the Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Armed Struggle and the Search for State -- the Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 by Yezid Sayigh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.xxxiv + 953, bibliography, index. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. In the twentieth century the territorial...

Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East by Ehud R. Toledano. Publications on the Near East. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp.xii + 185, bibliography, index. $18.00 (paperback). The word `slavery' brings...

Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990 by Annelies Moors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.xi + 260, references, index. 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paperback). These...

Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo by Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp.xviii + 275, references, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 13.95 [pounds...

Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East by M. Riad El-Ghonemy. London; Routledge, 1998. Pp. xxi + 298, bibliography, index. 15.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback). The attempts to restructure the economies of the Middle East and redefine the...

Labour and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions and Economic Restructuring.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Labour and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions and Economic Restructuring by Marsha Pripstein Posusney. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 327, bibliography, index. 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 15.00 [pounds sterling]...

Children of Deh Koh: Young Life in an Iranian Village.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Children of Deh Koh: Young Life in an Iranian Village by Erika Friedl. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp.306. $49.95 (hardback); $20.95 (paperback). Today, whenever anthropologists take up their pen, they are faced with a...

Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-century Iran.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-century Iran by Parvin Paidar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.vxi + 401, bibliography, index and illustrations. 16.50 [pounds sterling] (paperback). Although the position of...

Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation Implementing the Beijing Platform.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation Implementing the Beijing Platform edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp.xxiii + 198, bibliography, index. This book consists of articles...

Mandate Days: British lives in Palestine 1918-1948.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Mandate Days: British lives in Palestine 1918-1948 by A.J. Sherman. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Pp.264, plates, index. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. The source for this account of the fortunes of the British community in Palestine during...

Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan by Eli S. Malka. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 262, bibliography, index, illustrations. $29.95. When Muhammad Ahmad b. `Abdallah proclaimed himself mahdi of...