Recently added articles from Domes:
Adopting a Strength-based, Indigenous-focused Approach to Studying Kuwait Post-traumatic Stress
Oct 31, 2005; al-Naser, Fahad, Ridha, Hadi Mukhtar Ali, Figley, Charles R. ... al-Naser, Fahad, Ridha, Hadi Mukhtar Ali, Figley, Charles R. Domes 10-31-2005 ABSTRACT Research design can be elegant but rarely does good research embarking on a new and complex area travel in a straight line. This article briefly describes the winding journey of three ...
Death as a Form of Becoming: the Muslim Imagery of Death and Necropolitics
Oct 31, 2005; Raja, Masood Ashraf ... Raja, Masood Ashraf Domes 10-31-2005 Towards the end of his essay "Necropolitics," Achille Mbembe discusses the phenomenon of Palestinian suicide bombers. Reading this particular human behavior, using the Hegelian and Batalian philosophy, Mbembe opines: There is no doubt ...
For all the Wrong Reasons? Re-evaluating Truman, Domestic Influences, and the Palestine Question
Oct 31, 2005; McBride, David ... McBride, David Domes 10-31-2005 ABSTRACT This essay is a re-evaluation of President Harry Truman's foreign policy in Palestine and whether his decision-making was influenced by domestic issues, events and attitudes. The article both weighs in on the current debate of ...
All That's Left to You: a Novella and Short Stories
Oct 31, 2005; Boullata, Issa J. ... Boullata, Issa J. Domes 10-31-2005 Ghassan Kanafani, translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2004. 128p.Pbk.: $12.95. ISBN: 1566565480. This is an excellent translation of Ghassan Kanafani's novella Ma Tabaqqa Lakum (Beirut, ...
Beating Around the Bushes in Mesopotamia: Resurrecting Empires and Imperialisms: a Review Essay; Disarming Iraq; Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East.
Oct 31, 2005; Rich, Paul ... Rich, Paul Domes 10-31-2005 Hans Blix. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. x, 285 p.$24.00. ISBN: 037542302-80. Rashid Khalidi. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. xiv, 223 p. $23.00. ISBN: 0807002348. Events in Iraq move on apace, and the January 2005 elections held ...
Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: the Promised Land, America, and Israel 1917-2002
Oct 31, 2005; Jacobs, Alexander M. ... Jacobs, Alexander M. Domes 10-31-2005 Irvine H. Anderson Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 187p. $39.95. ISBN: 0813027985. The 20(th) Century media guru, Marshall McLuhan, frequently spoke of communication systems in terms of "hot" and "cool" -- the ...
The Creation of Iraq: 1914-1921
Oct 31, 2005; Aman, Mohammed M. ... Aman, Mohammed M. Domes 10-31-2005 Reeva Spector Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian, editors NY: Columbia University Press, 2004. 181p., maps. $59.50. ISBN: 0231132921. Pbk.: $19.50. ISBN: 023113293X. The book's ten chapters originated as presentations at a I ...
Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism
Oct 31, 2005; Aman, Mohammed M. ... Aman, Mohammed M. Domes 10-31-2005 Daniel Byman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 369p. Pbk.: $30.00. ISBN: 0521839734. In addition to the introduction, the book contains ten chapters with headings such as; "Why do states support terrorism?"; "The ...
Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity
Oct 31, 2005; Gross, Mary T. ... Gross, Mary T. Domes 10-31-2005 Birgit Schaebler and Leif Stenberg, editors Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004. 266p. $30.95. ISBN: 0815630247; Pbk.: 266p. $19.95. ISBN: 0815630492. The theme of globalization presents academics with a delicious topic ...
A Guest for the Night
Oct 31, 2005; Mazor, Yair ... Mazor, Yair Domes 10-31-2005 S.Y. Agnon, translated by Misha Louvich Madison, WI.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.485p. $40.00. ISBN: 0805230912; Pbk.: 494p. $19.95. ISBN: 0299206440. Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1885-1970) is undoubtedly one of the most ...
In the Heart of the Seas
Oct 31, 2005; Mazor, Yair ... Mazor, Yair Domes 10-31-2005 S.Y. Agnon, translated by I.M. Lask and T. Herzl Rome Madison, WI.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 128p. n.p. ISBN: 0299207048 While preparing to voyage from the East European exile to the Holy Land, a group of Hasidic, pious ...
The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland
Oct 31, 2005; Tsimhoni, Daphne ... Tsimhoni, Daphne Domes 10-31-2005 Nissim Rejwan Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. 242pp. $24.95. ISBN: 0292702930. This book by Nissim Rejwan is one of the outstanding memoir books which have been published by Jews who had emigrated from Iraq to Israel ...
Middle East History: a Review Essay; The Modern Middle East: a history; The Modern Middle East: a political history since the First World War
Oct 31, 2005; Gallagher, Nancy E. ... Gallagher, Nancy E. Domes 10-31-2005 James L. Gelvin New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 357p. Documents, Timeline, Biographical Sketches, Glossary, Vignettes, Maps. Hd.: $62.00. ISBN: 0195167880; Pbk.:$31.00. ISBN: 0195167899. Mehren Kamrava Berkeley: ...
Modern Egypt: the Formation of a Nation-State
Oct 31, 2005; Reimer, Michael J. ... Reimer, Michael J. Domes 10-31-2005 Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2(nd) ed., 2004. xii, 242p. $28.00. ISBN: 0813338867. The historiography of Egypt is intimidating in its sheer immensity. Professor Goldschmidt offers this book, therefore, as ...
The Muqaddimah: an Introduction to History
Oct 31, 2005; Boullata, Issa J. ... Boullata, Issa J. Domes 10-31-2005 Ibn Khaldun Translated by Franz Rosenthal; abridged and edited by N. J. Dawood Princeton and Oxford: Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, 2005. xliv, 465p. $24.95. ISBN: 0691120544. It is almost five decades since ...
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books
Oct 31, 2005; Tompkins, SaraJane ... Tompkins, SaraJane Domes 10-31-2005 Azar Nafisi New York: Random House, 2004. 343p. $23.95. ISBN: 0375504907; Pbk.: $13.95. ISBN: 081297106X. This story welcomes the reader with open arms to come into a difficult and life -- changing experience with Azar Nafisi ....
Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization
Oct 31, 2005; Boullata, Issa J. ... Boullata, Issa J. Domes 10-31-2005 Robert W. Hefner, editor Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii, 358p. Pbk: $19.95. ISBN: 0691120935. Conceived originally before the 9/11 events as a collaborative project at Boston University, with a grant ...
The Right War? the Conservative Debate on Iraq
Oct 31, 2005; Aman, Mohammed M. ... Aman, Mohammed M. Domes 10-31-2005 Gary Rosen, editor Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 224p. $65.00. ISBN: 0521856817. Pbk.: $22.99. ISBN: 0521673186. This is a collection of essays that represents the writers' views and opinions, and previously ...
The Tragedy of the Middle East
Oct 31, 2005; Aman, Mohammed M. ... Aman, Mohammed M. Domes 10-31-2005 Barry Rubin Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2000. 296p. $28.99. ISBN: 0521806232; Pbk.: $21.99. ISBN: 0521806232 Rubin is the Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center of the interdisciplinary ...
Two Tales: "Betrothed" and "Edo and Enam"
Oct 31, 2005; Mazor, Yair ... Mazor, Yair Domes 10-31-2005 S.Y. Agnon, translated by Walter Lever Madison, WI: Wisconsin University Press, 2004. 237p. ISBN:0299206343. It is neither random nor arbitrary that the two tales, Betrothed and Edo and Enam are clustered into one amalgamated volume ....