Middle Eastern Studies articles from July 1997

Middle Eastern Studies archives from July 1997

Toynbee and Ibn Khaldun. (Arnold Toynbee, western historian)
July 1, 1997... `Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop -- Was the site once of a...

The immigration policy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.
July 1, 1997... After the `oil boom' of October 1973, the major oil-exporting countries of the Persian Gulf had to deal with a complicated dilemma: what to do with the extremely vast revenues from oil export. It seems that they decided to invest in three major...

'The safety of our Indian Empire': Lord Curzon and British predominance in the Arabian Peninsula, 1919.
July 1, 1997... During 1916-1917 determined efforts were made by the British Foreign Office to obtain from France and Italy a recognition of Britain's political predominance in the Arabian Peninsula. Included in this definition were the Trucial Chiefdoms with...

The Kurds and the Lausanne Peace negotiations, 1922-23.
July 1, 1997... After the First World War, the Kurds, like other nationalities within the Ottoman Empire, were presented with an opportunity to form their own nation-state. The dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire had left chaos and a political vacuum in the...

Status and rights of the Arab minority in nascent Jewish state.
July 1, 1997... The attitude of Zionism toward the issue of the Arabs in Palestine from the beginning of Zionism until the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest. Among the more prominent studies are those...

Government fiscal policy in mandatory Palestine in the 1930s. (under British administration)
July 1, 1997... The fiscal system of Palestine under Ottoman rule was divided into two: the autonomous Sanjaq, or District of Jerusalem, came under the direct control of the Ministry of Finance at Constantinople, whilst the Sanjaqs of Acre and Nablus were...

Zealous towns in nineteenth-century Palestine.
July 1, 1997... Foreign visitors to Palestine typically relate in their travel books and memoirs the kind of welcome they received in the different places they happened to visit or pass through. Anybody reading these books is often struck by the difference in...

Scottish missionaries and the struggle for Palestine, 1917-48.
July 1, 1997... Among the diverse groups that were involved in the struggle for Palestine during the period of British rule was one that has received virtually no attention from scholarly investigators: the missionaries who were sent there by Scottish churches...

The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond.
July 1, 1997... by Gad G. Gilbar. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xix + 123, notes, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback). A superficial look at each of the first two books could result in the reader dismissing them as rather unimportant...

Business and Economic Development in Saudi Arabia.
July 1, 1997... by J.W. Wright, Jr. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xviii + 207, notes, index. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (hardback). A superficial look at each of the first two books could result in the reader dismissing them as rather unimportant works. The...

Population Dilemmas in the Middle East.
July 1, 1997... by Gad G. Gilbar. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xix + 141, bibliography, index. 27.50 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 13.50 [pounds sterling] (paperback). A superficial look at each of the first two books could result in the...

Eden, Suez and the Mass Media: Propaganda and Persuasion During the Suez Crisis.
July 1, 1997... by Tony Shaw. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. Pp.268, bibliography and index. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. The collection of half a dozen books under consideration here is too disparate in coverage and subject matter to allow for a review...

The Egyptian Theatre in the Nineteenth Century.
July 1, 1997... by P.C. Sadgrove. Ithaca Press, 1996. Pp.214, appendices, bibliography and index. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The collection of half a dozen books under consideration here is too disparate in coverage and subject matter to allow for a review...

Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt.
July 1, 1997... by Walter Armbrust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.275, bibliography and index. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 15.95 [pounds sterling] (paperback). The collection of half a dozen books under consideration here is too...

Redefining the Egyptian Nation: 1930-1945.
July 1, 1997... by I. Gershoni and J. Jankowski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.280, bibliography and index. 37.50. [pounds sterling] The collection of half a dozen books under consideration here is too disparate in coverage and subject matter...

Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival.
July 1, 1997... by Martin Kramer. USA and London: Transaction Publishers, 1996. Pp.297, index. 34.95. [pounds sterling] The collection of half a dozen books under consideration here is too disparate in coverage and subject matter to allow for a review article....

Anwar Sadat, Visionary Who Dared.
July 1, 1997... by Joseph Finklestone. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1996. Pp.297, index and illustrations. 29.50/$39.50 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 15.00/$22.50 [pounds sterling] (paperback). The collection of half a dozen books under consideration here...

Edith Penrose, 1914-1996: in memoriam.
July 1, 1997... Edith Penrose will be remembered in the history of economic thought as the author of a seminal book, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. Published in 1959, the book continues to inspire research programmes in economic organization and in...