Middle Eastern Studies articles from July 1999

Middle Eastern Studies archives from July 1999

Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries. History and Culture in the Modern Era.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries. History and Culture in the Modern Era by Harvey E. Goldberg (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 346. 31.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 14.99 [pounds sterling] (paper). This book...

A Desert Squall: Anglo-American Planning for Military Intervention in Iraq, July 1958-August 1959.
July 1, 1999... The launch of Operation `Desert Storm' against Iraq in 1991, and the subsequent Anglo-American readiness to undertake punitive action against Saddam Hussein, has some interesting precedents in the year following the establishment of a...

Israel and Sudan: The Saga of an Enigmatic Relationship.
July 1, 1999... Israeli--Sudanese relations are unique for their secrecy and inconsistency. This is in a large measure a result of the political instability in Sudan and the poor state of its economy. Unlike most Muslim countries in the periphery of the Middle...

Ethno-Nationalism, Sovereignty and Negotiating Positions in the Cyprus Conflict: Obstacles to a Settlement.
July 1, 1999... It is important to note that the two communities in Cyprus, and their motherlands, have completely different perceptions of the history of the island; `history' (i.e. the struggle for liberation) ended in 1974 for the Turkish Cypriots and began...

The Development of the Transportation Sector in Syria and the Actual Investment Policy.
July 1, 1999... Fast, smooth and economic transportation, not only of goods and raw materials, but of people as well, is essential to a country's economic development. Just a few years ago both sectors in Syria left a lot to be desired. In the early 1990s...

British Forestry Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1929-48: Aims and Realities.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... My picture thus embraces planted belts of timber on the sky-line and upper slopes of the hills: lower down a more open formation of olives, carobs, walnuts and mulberry, and in the sheltered valleys beneath vineyards, orchards, and vegetable...

Progress and Disorder: 75 Years of the Turkish Republic.
July 1, 1999... On 29 October 1998 Turkey celebrated the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the republic. The following 10 November was the 60th anniversary of the death of the republic's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. To complete the list, 1999...

Islam and Democracy.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Islam and Democracy by John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. New York Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.232, index and bibliography. 16.99 [pounds sterling] (paper). In his article `The Religious and the Secular in Contemporary Arab...

Politics and Islam in Contemporary Sudan.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Politics and Islam in Contemporary Sudan by Abdel Salam Sidahmed. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 249, index. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In his article `The Religious and the Secular in Contemporary Arab Life' Aziz alAzmeh dismisses...

The Merchant Republic of Lebanon: Rise of an Open Economy.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Merchant Republic of Lebanon: Rise of an Open Economy by Carolyn L. Gates. London: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xvi + 248, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. These two studies are important contributions to the growing literature...

The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan by Timothy J. Piro. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. xvi + 131, bibliography, index. $54.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). These two studies are important...

Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia, 1857: Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, No. XLIII. -- New Series.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia, 1857: Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, No. XLIII. -- New Series by Cdr. James Felix Jones, I.N. Slough: Archive Editions, 1998. Pp.xlvii + 504. 595 [pounds sterling]. ...

Secularization of Iran: a Doomed Failure?(Review)
July 1, 1999... Secularization of Iran: a Doomed Failure? by Azadi Kian-Thiebaut. Paris: Peeters, 1998. Pp. 296, bibliography, index. The aim of this work is to highlight the continuing contribution to the creation of modern Iran of the new middle class,...

Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era by Yossi Katz. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xii + 209, bibliography, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 17.50 [pounds sterling] (paper). In...

Between Jerusalem and Hebron: Jewish Settlement in the Pre-State Period.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Between Jerusalem and Hebron: Jewish Settlement in the Pre-State Period by Yossi Katz. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1998. Pp. 295, bibliography, index. In Partner to Partition, Yossi Katz focuses on the Jewish Agency's (the...

The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine by Jacob Metzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii + 275, bibliography and index. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$59.95. In Partner to Partition, Yossi Katz focuses on the Jewish...

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus by R. Hirschon. Oxford: Berghan, 1998 (first published 1989). 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). Anthropologists are renowned for their sensitivity to context,...

The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village by S. Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Anthropologists are renowned for their sensitivity to context, for...