Middle Eastern Studies articles from October 2003

Middle Eastern Studies archives from October 2003

Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi: a frustrating fulfilment of a dream, 1947-56.
October 1, 2003... As argued in the latest piece of my discourse on Neo-Mahdism, the Umma bloc reacted violently to what they considered British 'betrayal' in the Sidqi-Bevin Protocol of October 1946. (1) But just a couple of years later, they witnessed and...

Access to land and Berber Ethnicity in the Middle Atlas, Morocco.
October 1, 2003... Morocco is in a state of political paralysis... Those inclined to neglect, impede or end the process of reform and democratization should give serious consideration to the example of Algeria. Prince Moulay Hicham...

The field units of Turkish central administration.
October 1, 2003... The striking feature of Turkish public administration is its centralized structure. Almost all public services in education, health, construction, agriculture etc., are taken to people by the central administration. In order to provide these...

Turkey in economic crisis (1927-1930): a panaromic vision.
October 1, 2003... The structure of the Turkish economy was similar to that of the late Ottoman economy in the 1920s. (1) Commercial agriculture and trade were the main economic activities. Coastal regions continued to produce cash crops for the world markets,...

Press Laws as a survival strategy in Jordan, 1989-99.
October 1, 2003... Between 1989 and 1999 Jordan passed legislation for four Press and Publications Laws. This flurry of press regulation has been a central part of the Hashemite monarchy's strategy of survival during the 1990s. Major shifts in economic and...

Positions and attitudes of Israeli Arabs regarding the Arab world, 1990-2001.
October 1, 2003... Scholars have debated intensely whether Israel's Arab citizens are increasingly becoming hostile to the State, working within the system, or aspire to some form of cultural and political autonomy short of insurrection and potential secession....

Lydda and Ramle: from Palestinian-Arab to Israeli towns, 1948-67.
October 1, 2003... Wartime spatial changes are usually rapid and sweeping, after which the landscape looks very different from what it did in the past. (1) This results from the wide-scale use of powerful weapons that cause partial or complete destruction of...

From global capital to state capitalism: the evolution of economic thought in Iran, 1875-1925.
October 1, 2003... The history of economic thought in developing countries is a neglected subject. It is rightly believed that all new ideas and discoveries in economic science have emanated from the developed countries of the West. A glance at any of the several...

Turco-British relations on the eve of the Second World War.
October 1, 2003... The First World War failed to resolve the basic conflicts among the European powers. Injustices inherent in the Versailles peace settlement only aggravated the complicated national questions which bedevilled the whole of Europe. The military,...

Perplexed by Turkey (review article).
October 1, 2003... US-Turkish relations appeared in fair shape at the beginning of 2003. True, there had been hard bargaining over the terms of Turkey's participation in America's campaign to dislodge Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, but the US alliance was...