Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 2003

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 2003

Saving the King: Anglo-American strategy and British counter-subversion operations in Libya, 1953-59.
January 1, 2003... In the context of the rise of regional nationalism and the tensions engendered by the Cold War in the Middle East in the two decades after 1945, the desert Kingdom of Libya would appear at first sight to occupy an anomalous position. Relatively...

The narrative gap in Ottoman Armenian history.
January 1, 2003... Early in 2001 French parliamentarians passed a resolution asserting that 'France publicly recognizes the genocide of the Armenians in 1915'. (1) Similar resolutions have been passed elsewhere in Europe and in the United States and others are...

The famine of 1921-22 in the Crimea and the Volga basin and the relief from Turkey.
January 1, 2003... In 1921-22, a famine of unprecedented proportions swept through several regions of Soviet Russia. Although crop failures and even large-scale famines had been plentiful if not periodical in Russian history, what occurred then surpassed anything...

Tribes and telegraphs in lower Iraq: the Muntafiq and the Baghdad-Basrah telegraph line of 1863-65.
January 1, 2003... The introduction of the electric telegraph into the tribal areas of lower Iraq in the early 1860s was a major component in the Ottoman policy of imposing central authority over the unruly tribes inhabiting that area. (1) During the...

British intelligence and the role of Jewish informers in Palestine.
January 1, 2003... The disturbances in Palestine which lasted for nine days from 23 August 1929, took the form of vicious attacks by Arabs upon Jews. Though the racial tension and alarming signals rose greatly during the month that preceded the outbreak, no...

To unite or not to unite--that is not the question: the 1963 tripartite unity talks reassessed.
January 1, 2003... On 17 April 1963, after three rounds of negotiations, Egypt, Syria and Iraq announced their intention to establish a federal union called the United Arab Republic (al-Jumhuriyya al-'Arabiyya al-Muttahicla), the same name as the defunct 1958...

Turkey's entrance into the League of Nations.
January 1, 2003... This is a study on a subject that has been long neglected in both Western and Turkish scholarship. Literature on Turkey's entrance into the League of Nations is almost non-existent. The object of the present article is to detail and analyse the...

Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... by Khaled Abou El Fadl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp.xii + 391, bibliography, index. 47.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 0-521-79311-4. The legacy of pre-modern Islamic political thought has been subject to two...

Turkish Transformation: New Century--New Challenges.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... edited by Brian Beeley. Huntingdon: Eothen Press, 2002. Pp.xi + 279, bibliography, index. 19.50 [pounds sterling]/$29.95 (paper). ISBN 0906719348. This book, edited by Dr Brian Beeley of the Open University in the UK, brings together 12...

Armed Forces in the Middle East: Politics and Strategy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... edited by Barry Rubin and Thomas A. Kearney. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp.xii + 268, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 17.50 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 0714652555; 0714682454. In 1995, in the...

The Rise and Fall of the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... by Joshua Teitelbaum. London: Hurst and Company, 2001. Pp.xvii + 310, bibliography, index. 35 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 1-85065-460-3. The Rise and Fall of the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia is a study of Sharif Hussein's thwarted...

A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... by Eberhard Kienle. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. Pp.xiv + 274, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 0-86064-441-4; 0-86064-442-2. In contemporary Egyptian polities two enduring stories...

The British Empire as a World Power.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... by Edward Ingram. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp.xiv + 273, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 0-7146-5151-6. Readers of this journal will be interested in the key role Edward Ingram assigns to the Middle East in...