Recently added articles from Middle East Quarterly:
The Revolutionary Guards' role in Iranian politics.(Insight on Iran)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Almost three decades after the Islamic Republic's founding, former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders are infiltrating the political, economic, and cultural life of Iran. Half the members of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet are former IRGC officers, (1) and he has ...
The Islamic Republic's economic failure.(Insight on Iran)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Islamic Republic's nuclear drive remains a focal point of international concern. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks of becoming a pan-regional if not world power. (1) Much of his defiance is fueled by unprecedented oil income. Iran has built a US$82 billion foreign exchange reserve ....
Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi.(Insight on Iran)(Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised not only many Westerners but also many Iranians when, during his first speech at the United Nations, he prayed for the hasty return of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, Shi'i Islam's messianic figure. (1) Demonstrating his priorities, he repeated ...
Iran's revolutionary guards--a rogue outfit?(Insight on Iran)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... There is a tendency in Western capitals to dismiss adversarial Iranian behavior as the work of rogue regime factions, which are not representative of Tehran's true intentions. Following a Baghdad press conference providing evidence of Iranian weapons shipments to Iraq, (1) U.S. officials ...
Ahmadinejad: the U.S. "is going down".(Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... TEHRAN -- Iran's president on Tuesday blamed the U.S. and other "big powers" for nuclear proliferation, AIDS, and other global ills, and accused them of exploiting the U.N. and other organizations for their own gain and the developing world's loss. But, President Mahmoud ...
Jail for Iranian journalists.(Insight on Iran)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I was a newspaper journalist in the Islamic Republic, but censorship forced me to blog. My blogging led to my arrest and eventual departure from my homeland. To comprehend how pervasive censorship is in Iran today and how difficult it is for Iranians to access a wide range of accurate ...
Iran: death for online crimes.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... A new law has been passed by the Iranian parliament extending use of the death penalty to online crimes. Bloggers and website editors can be sentenced to death for crimes such as promoting corruption, prostitution, and apostasy, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) ...
Jeffrey Gedmin: "our Iranian colleagues believe in Radio Farda's mission".(Insight on Iran)(Interview)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Jeffrey Gedmin has, since February 2007, been president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where he directs broadcasting and Internet operations in twenty-eight languages and where, with an annual budget of just $5.3 million for RFE/RL's Iranian broadcasts, he has revitalized ...
Gazans paid Egyptians with play money.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Ma'ariv correspondent Amit Cohen reports in today's edition that many Gazans exploited the lack of familiarity of Egyptians with Israeli currency and paid for goods with play money. "During the disengagement, 100 and 200 [fake] shekel notes were distributed in the Gaza Strip and ...
Philippe Karsenty: "we need to expose the Muhammad al-Dura hoax".
Sep 22, 2008; ... THE LAWSUIT Middle East Quarterly: What specifically led France 2 television to sue you for defamation? Philippe Karsenty: The defamatory words were that the Muhammad al-Dura tapes are fakes, a hoax, that Charles Enderlin was misled, that he misled people, and that ...
Early Zionists and Arabs.(DOCUMENT)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Many Arab officials and Israeli "New Historians" describe early Zionist attitudes toward the Arab population of Palestine as dismissive or arrogant. Books and pamphlets from the time tell a different story. BEN-GURION: OUR ARAB BRETHREN During World War I, Israel's ...
Alhurra's Daniel Nassif.(Correspondence)
Sep 22, 2008; ... To the Editor: Mr. Nassif's refusal to "spread U.S. propaganda" ("Daniel Nassif: 'We Do Not Spread Propaganda for the United States,'" Spring 2008) seems a defense of objective journalism at Alhurra, but in reality, either ideologues or a simple rush for ratings drive Alhurra ...
European converts to terrorism.(CORRESPONDENCE)
Sep 22, 2008; ... To the Editor: Milena Uhlmann makes a serious conceptual error ("European Converts to Terrorism," MEQ, Summer 2008) when she writes, "A minority [of European Muslims], however, embraces radical interpretations of Islam." There is only one interpretation of Islam ....
Islamic science and the renaissance.(Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. By George Saliba. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.315 pp. $40 (24.95 [pounds sterling]). Saliba has been studying Arabic scientific texts for many years, mainly those written by astronomers, and this volume offers his ...
Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Arab Soccer in a Jewish State, the Integrative Enclave. By Tamir Sorek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.239 pp. $91. Sorek, an Israeli social scientist (as his prose can attest), finds in soccer a rich opportunity to study Arabs living and coping in the Jewish state ....
Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan. By Janice Boddy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 402 pp. $65 ($24.95, paper). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Recent years have seen serious debates in leftist and feminist circles over the practice of female ...
The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City. By Dore Gold. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2007. 372 pp. $27.95. The Fight for Jerusalem is not written for academics but for a general audience. In it, Gold, a former Israeli ...
God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis. By Philip Jenkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 340 pp. $28. Europe's religious crisis, referenced in Jenkins's title, is actually a demographic crisis. For a society to maintain its existing ...
Hamas: A History.(Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Hamas: A History. By Azzam Tamimi. Northampton, Mass.: Olive Brank Press, 2007.372 pp. $20. Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement. By Zaki Chehab. New York: Nation Books, 2007. 244 pp. $25.95 ($15.95, paper). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Within ...
A History of Modern Libya.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... A History of Modern Libya. By Dirk Vandewalle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 246 pp. $30. Vandewalle, an associate professor of government at Dartmouth, is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable students of Libya, and his A History of Modern Libya does not ...