Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 2000

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 2000

A Note on Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasa.
January 1, 2000... In his impressive, wide-ranging and erudite survey of Islam in the modern world, Elie Kedourie(1) refers to the efforts made by Khayr ad-Din al-Tunisi in 1867 to promote reforms in the Islamic world by publishing a book in Arabic,(2) the...

European Union Perspectives on Cyprus Accession.
January 1, 2000... On 5 March 1995 the French Presidency of the European Union persuaded Greece to remove its veto on the Customs Union with Turkey, and persuaded the other member-states to set a date for beginning an accession process with Cyprus without...

On the Margins of Consensus: The Call to Separate Religion and State in Modern Egypt.
January 1, 2000... The status of religion in the state has been one of the burning issues on the Egyptian political agenda ever since Egypt's encounter with the West in the nineteenth century. Egypt may have become more modernized and westernized than any other...

Boundaries Delimitation: Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
January 1, 2000... Palestine and Trans-Jordan emerged as modern states; this was in consequence of British war commitments to its allies during the First World War. Sir Mark Sykes, a senior Foreign Office official, together with George Picot, a French diplomat,...

The Repercussions of the British Occupation of Egypt on Syria, 1882-83.
January 1, 2000... The Egyptian crisis of 1881-82 and the following occupation of Egypt by Britain have been studied quite extensively from the Arab and British points of view, and considerable attention has focused on how the Ottoman State's reaction to the...

Forgotten Brigade of the Forgotten War: Turkey's Participation in the Korean War.
January 1, 2000... The Korean War has been called America's forgotten war, a vaguely remembered and unpopular police action that took place between the glorious victories of the Second World War and the ignominious defeat of Viet Nam. But if the Korean War...

Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy: Changing Patterns and Conjunctures during the Cold War.
January 1, 2000... I looked elsewhere at the structural determinants of Turkish foreign policy,(1) which included the factors that have traditionally influenced and shaped the foreign policy of Turkey from imperial times, through the inter-war years with Ataturk,...

Solidarity in Isolation: Urban Imformal Sector Women's Economic Organizations in Turkey.
January 1, 2000... The focus of this article is informal economic organizations of self-employed women in urban Turkey. The nature of five of these organizations established by urban female micro and small entrepreneurs is analysed. The differences among them in...

External Constraints on Manufacturing Development in Israeli-Occupied Gaza.
January 1, 2000... The signing of the peace accord between the Israeli government and representatives of the Palestinians in September 1993 marked the end of 27 years of total control, by Israel, over the affairs of the occupied territories of the West Bank and...

Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus 1954-1959.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus 1954-1959 by Robert Holland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 347, bibliography, index, illustrations. 48.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). This is a very welcome study, the first in English that makes...

The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 372, bibliography for volumes I and II,...

A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century by Roger Owen and Sevket Pamuk. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xviii + 310, bibliography, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 12.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). A...

Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls by Jahangir Amuzegar. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999. Pp.282, bibliography, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). A History of the Middle East Economies in the Twentieth...

The Turkish Minority in Bulgaria (1878-1908).(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Turkish Minority in Bulgaria (1878-1908) by Omer Turan. Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu, 1998. Pp.349. The relationship between Turkey and the Turkish diaspora communities is one of those subjects that everybody is aware of as being of...

Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East 1916-19.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East 1916-19 by John Fisher. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.xvi + 342, bibliography, index. 42.50 [pounds sterling]/$59.50 (cloth); 18.50 [pounds sterling]/$26.50 (paper). During...

Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power by Cyrus Ghani. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xiv + 434. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. Cyrus Ghani has written what is one of the fullest and most comprehensive...

Israeli--Soviet Relations, 1953-1967: From Confrontation to Disruption.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Israeli--Soviet Relations, 1953-1967: From Confrontation to Disruption by Yosef Govrin. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xxxvi + 348, bibliography, index. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$59.50 (cloth); 19.50 [pounds sterling]/$27.50...

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq by Kanan Makiya. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989 (updated edition 1998). Pp. xxxxv + 323, a new introduction, tables, index, chronology. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). Ten...

Najib Mahfuz -- The Novelist-Philosopher of Cairo.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Najib Mahfuz -- The Novelist-Philosopher of Cairo by Menahem Milson. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1998. Pp. 304. Najib Mahfuz was born in Cairo in 1911 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He published...

The Brink of Peace: The Israeli--Syrian Negotiations.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations by Itamar Rabinovich. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp.xv + 283. 35 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 9.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). The Israeli--Syrian negotiations which began...

Correspondence.
January 1, 2000... Professor Nikki Keddie writes: Mehrdad Kia's article `Women, Islam and Modernity in Akhundzade's Plays and Unpublished Writings', Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.34, No.3 (July 1998), was highly useful and enlightening and awakened in me some...