Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 2001

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 2001

British Intelligence and the Turkish National Movement, 1919-22.
January 1, 2001... Readers of Keith Jeffery and Alan Sharp's article `Lord Curzon and Secret Intelligence', in Christopher Andrew and Jeremy Noakes (eds.) Intelligence and International Relations (University of Exeter, 1987), and Robin Denniston's Churchill's...

Human Rights, Democratization and the European Community in Turkish Politics: The Ozal Years, 1983-87.
January 1, 2001... The issues of human rights and democratization have in recent years emerged as significant aspects of Turkey-European Union relations, This can be seen as a change in the traditional pattern of Turkey-EU relations that used to be centred around...

Domestic Concerns and the Water Conflict over the Euphrates--Tigris River Basin.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Resolution of conflicts over the sharing of water resources in the Middle East has emerged over the past decade as one of the fundamental issues for peace and stability in the region. The disputes over the Euphrates--Tigris Rivers among Turkey,...

Dispensing with Tradition? Turkish Politics and International Society during the Ozal Decade, 1983-93.
January 1, 2001... Turgut Ozal played a leading role in Turkish politics first as prime minister (1983-89), then as president (1989-93). At first sight, he comes across as a man of apparent paradoxes. He was part of a political tradition that represented the...

Mirza Ya`qub Khan's Call for Representative Government, Toleration and Islamic Reform in Nineteenth-Century Iran.
January 1, 2001... This article examines Tarh-e Arizeh-i Ast keh beh Khakpayeh Mobarak Mahramaneh Bayad Arz Shavad (after 1874), an essay by Mirza Ya`qub Khan. This essay is an important document for the history of political ideas in nineteenth-century Iran for...

Inside the Court of Naser od-Din Shah Qajar, 1881-96: The Life and Diary of Mohammad Hasan Khan E'temad os-Saltaneh.(Iran)
January 1, 2001... Mohammad Hasan Khan E'temad os-Saltaneh (1843-96), a high official in the court of Naser od-Din Shah Qajar (1848-96), has been something of an enigma to historians of nineteenth-century Iran.(1) The bare facts of his life are well known, but...

Seizing Opportunities: Israel and the 1958 Crisis in the Middle East.
January 1, 2001... The 1958 crisis was a crucial event in Middle Eastern history. It was a significant development in the emergence of a militant Arab nationalism which crystallized behind Nasser's leadership, and it emphasized the division within the Arab world...

The Making of a Neo-Colony? Anglo-Kuwaiti Relations in the Era of Decolonization.
January 1, 2001... Kuwait is emerging from a semi-colonial status and Arab Nationalist sentiments reinforce their natural desire for complete freedom to deal with their own money. They are sensitive to jibes from other Arabs that it is used to...

Phoenicianism: The Formation of an Identity in Lebanon in 1920.
January 1, 2001... Many studies, preoccupied with socio-political aspects of Lebanon in the twentieth century, dedicate a few paragraphs to the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon. Yet our knowledge about the origins, the character and the content of this myth...

Turkey: The Urge to Reform.
January 1, 2001... (Review Article) `We need to change everything -- from A to Z', said Dr Refik Saydam, who became Prime Minister of the Turkish republic in 1939, a few months after the death of its founder Mustafa Kemal Atattirk. Dr Saydam had in mind the...

The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success by Geoffrey Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.x + 168, bibliography, indices. 35.00 [pounds sterling]/$60.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-823856-8. The subject of the `language...

Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran, by Ziba Mir-Hosseini. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000. Pp.xxiv + 305, bibliographic essay, bibliography and index. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 12.95 [pounds sterling]...

The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon by Ussama Makdisi. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp.xv + 229, bibliography, index. $22.00 (paper). ISBN...

Lebanon, The Challenge of Independence.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Lebanon, The Challenge of Independence by Eyal Zisser. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. Pp.xiii + 278, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 1-86064-357-2. The book by Ussama Makdisi is unique in style, analysis and...

The Great War and the Tragedy of Anatolia: Turks and Armenians in the Maelstrom of Major Powers.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Great War and the Tragedy of Anatolia: Turks and Armenians in the Maelstrom of Major Powers by Salahi Sonyel. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 2000. Pp.x + 221, bibliography, index. $29.00 (paper). ISBN 975-1227-6. The subject of...

Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East 1917-1919.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East 1917-1919 by Matthew Hughes. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.xvi + 224, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling]/$57.50 (cloth); 16.50 [pounds sterling]/$24.50 (paper). ISBN...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World edited by Francis Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. Pp.xxiii + 328, illustrations, maps, bibliographies, index. 24.95 [pounds sterling]/$17.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...