Middle Eastern Studies articles from July 1993

Middle Eastern Studies archives from July 1993

The Euphrates Expedition.
July 1, 1993... Readers of Harold L. Hoskins, British Routes to India, will long have been familiar with the Euphrates expedition, which is one of the most colourful episodes in a story which is replete with adventures and striking personalities. What John...

Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender.
July 1, 1993... The editors of this volume are to be congratulated for putting together a collection of papers that are bound to be of great interest to many people. For Nikki Keddie, this marks yet another case of her ability, going back some 20 years to her...

Imperial Sudan: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, 1934-56.
July 1, 1993... Building on his earlier volume, Empire on the Nile: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1934, Dr M.W. Daly, in his second volume, Imperial Sudan: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, 1934-56, has written an account of these 22 years that will stand as...

Education and the Making of Modern Iran.
July 1, 1993... Many paradoxes and puzzles about Iran's dynamic economy and socio-political development in the twentieth century can be traced to the country's educational system, its investment in human capital, its promotion of human productivity and...

Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion and Work.
July 1, 1993... Did women have a view of the East different from that of men? That is the simple question with which Dr Melman begins her study of a large number of British (rather than English) women who wrote about the Middle East during the eighteenth and...

Stalemake: The War of Attrition and Great Power Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1967-1970.
July 1, 1993... The June 1967 Arab-Israeli war marked a fundamental turning point in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, inter-Arab relations, the domestic politics of Israel and neighboring Arab states and the Palestinian movement. Yet the years which...

Change and continuity among the Lebanese Druze community: the civil administration of the mountains, 1983-90.
July 1, 1993... Change in traditional societies often occurs incrementally, as existing institutions and agencies rearrange themselves to confront new challenges and cope with continuing tensions and problems. Thus Khalaf observes that the process of...

The myth of defeat: the memory of the Yom Kippur War in Israeli society.
July 1, 1993... The Yom Kippur War of October 1973 arouses an uncomfortable feeling among Israeli Jews. Many think of it as a disaster or a calamity. This is evident in references to the War in Israeli literature, or the way in which the War is recalled in the...

Through a peculiar lens: Zionism and Palestine in British diaries, 1927-31.
July 1, 1993... The copious research dealing with the British presence in Palestine during the period of the Mandate (c. 1918-1948) has mostly sidetracked a significant issue: what were the perceptions - spiritual, ideological, historical - that shaped, or at...

Food security and rural development in North Africa.
July 1, 1993... North Africa is an amalgam of six countries, having broad similarities and significant structural variations. Apart from being ruled by Europeans for a considerable period of time, the obvious common feature is cultural: Arabic, Islam and...

Operation 'Ajax' revisited: Iran, 1953.
July 1, 1993... The Iranian oil nationalization crisis, which began in 1951 when Prime Minister Muhammad Musaddiq nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), reached its climax in August 1953 with the CIA-assisted overthrow of Musaddiq. Several aspects...

France in Syria: the abolition of the Sharifian government, April-July 1920.
July 1, 1993... France did not recover in time to enjoy the fruits of the victory of the First World War. She confronted many obstacles in finding her place in the new international order. Even though she too was a victor, she was completely exhausted by the...

The Johnson Letter revisited. (Turkey's policy toward Cyprus and Lyndon Johnson's 1964 letter to the Turkish government)
July 1, 1993... At 5.30 a.m. on 20 July 1974 Turkish troops started landing in Cyprus marking the beginning of the so-called |Peace Operation'. The fighting which ensued between the Turkish forces and the troops of Greek Cypriots and those of Greece lasted on...

The role of the United States in the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of 1954.
July 1, 1993... The defeat of Hitler in Europe was, to a great extent, the result of a joint Anglo-American effort. Likewise the Soviet Union's ambition to extend its dictatorial hegemony into Western Europe were repelled only through joint efforts and the...

Halil Halid: anti-imperialist Muslim intellectual.
July 1, 1993... It is unfortunate that the name of Halil Halid today means little to most well-read persons in the Islamic world, including his home country, Turkey. In addition to being a political activist, scholar and diplomat, Halil Halid was the author of...

Islam in the Political Life of the Countries of the Contemporary Near and Middle East.
July 1, 1993... Continuing a previous review article on general books about Islam in Russian,(1) we will attempt here to evaluate a few others which discuss Islam in the context of specific countries outside the former Soviet Union; all of them seem to have...

The Spread of Islam in Africa.
July 1, 1993... Continuing a previous review article on general books about Islam in Russian,(1) we will attempt here to evaluate a few others which discuss Islam in the context of specific countries outside the former Soviet Union; all of them seem to have...

Islam in the Socio-Political Life of Tunisia.
July 1, 1993... Continuing a previous review article on general books about Islam in Russian,(1) we will attempt here to evaluate a few others which discuss Islam in the context of specific countries outside the former Soviet Union; all of them seem to have...

Saudi Arabia: Oil, Islam, Politics.
July 1, 1993... Continuing a previous review article on general books about Islam in Russian,(1) we will attempt here to evaluate a few others which discuss Islam in the context of specific countries outside the former Soviet Union; all of them seem to have...

Islam in Egypt's Social Life: Second Half of the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 20th.
July 1, 1993... Continuing a previous review article on general books about Islam in Russian,(1) we will attempt here to evaluate a few others which discuss Islam in the context of specific countries outside the former Soviet Union; all of them seem to have...

The Islamic World and the Palestinian Problem.
July 1, 1993... Continuing a previous review article on general books about Islam in Russian,(1) we will attempt here to evaluate a few others which discuss Islam in the context of specific countries outside the former Soviet Union; all of them seem to have...

Afghanistan's Islamic Opposition: Sources and Objectives.
July 1, 1993... Continuing a previous review article on general books about Islam in Russian,(1) we will attempt here to evaluate a few others which discuss Islam in the context of specific countries outside the former Soviet Union; all of them seem to have...