The Middle East Journal back issues from October 2002:
The politics of incoherence: The United States and the Middle east
Oct 01, 2002; ... The world today is caught in the midst of fundamental incoherence. Old systems tear and unravel while new systems have not yet formed to take their places. The challenge of incoherence is especially acute in the Middle East where gaps, divisions, and inequities prevail. United States foreign ...
Who owns the Shebaa Farms? Chronicle of a territorial dispute
Oct 01, 2002; ... The roots of the border controversy in the Shebaa farmland lie in the clumsy manner France delineated the Syrian-Lebanese boundary during the Mandate years. Since 1920, maps located the area within Syria. However, for all practical matters, the area was considered to be part of Lebanon. French ...
Explaining the Oslo Backchannel: Norway's political past in the Middle East
Oct 01, 2002; ... The signing of the 1993 Oslo agreement showed an astonished world the extent to which the small state of Norway had contributed to one of the most serious attempts at peace in the Middle East since the creation of Israel in May 1948. Through secret diplomacy and by playing a role far out of ...
Algeria's policy toward Israel: Pragmatism and rhetoric
Oct 01, 2002; ... This article is an analysis of Algerian-Israeli relations. The author argues that Algeria did not come to terms with Israel largely due to the rigidity of the FLN's (Front de Liberation National) ideology and to the popularity of the Islamic parties in that country. At the same time, however, he ...
Arab views of Soviet policy in the era of Glasnost, 1985-1991
Oct 01, 2002; ... This study examines Egyptian, Syrian, and Palestinian perceptions of Soviet involvement in the Arab-Israeli dispute during perestroika. The goal is to find out how the Arabs perceived the Soviet stand during Gorbachev's rule. The study focuses on Egyptian, Palestinian, Syrian scholarly and ...
Chronology: Arab-Israeli affairs
Oct 01, 2002; ... April 16, 2001 - July 15, 2002 AN, arabicnews.com BBC, British Broadcasting Company (www.bbc,co.uk) FT, Financial Times NYT, The New York Times WSJ, The Wall Street Journal WP, The Washington Post Arab-Israeli Affairs See ...
Chronology: Caucasus and Central Asia
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 26: US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Kyrgyzstan to meet American and other foreign troops based at Manas International Airport near Bishkek and to meet with Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev. [BBC, 4/26] Georgia, to train and to equip local troops for counter-terrorism ...
Chronology: Information technology
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 19: King Muhammad VI of Morocco appointed Othman Demnati director-general of the National Telecom Regulatory Agency (ANRT). His role would be to supervise the liberalization of Morocco's telecom sector. [AN, 4/19] May 17: Egypt's Prime Minister, Atef Ebeid, met with the Chairman of ...
Chronology: Petroleum affairs
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 20: The US Senate decided to ban American oil companies from buying Iraqi oil. The proposal, which banned both direct and indirect oil and oil-byproduct imports coming from Iraq, received 88 votes in favor and 10 in opposition. [AN, 4/20] May 10: In an attempt to allay growing ...
Chronology: Regional affairs
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 17: In a speech at Virginia Military Institute, President George Bush renewed calls for a campaign against countries representing the "axis of evil," and outlined the second stage of America's military conflict in Afghanistan, Operation Mountain Line. [BBC, 4/17] Apr. 25: During an ...
Chronology: Palestine affairs
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 20: The Greek Orthodox Church called for international intervention to end the 17-- day-old siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. A statement issued by the Church said it held the Israeli Government responsible for the siege. Food had run out inside the Bethlehem church. [BBC, ...
Chronology: Afghanistan
Oct 01, 2002; ... See also Regional affairs, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Pakistan, Turkey Apr. 16: British Royal Marines from the 45 Commando, with United States' troops and Afghan troops, began an operation to search out Taliban and al-Qa`ida forces in the mountains of Afghanistan. [BBC, 4/17] ...
Chronology: Algeria
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 19: As the European Union and Algeria prepared to sign a trade deal, human rights group Amnesty International encouraged the EU to utilize its economic power to put pressure on Algerian officials to lower the country's number of political killings. Amnesty claimed that such pressure was ...
Chronology: Bahrain
Oct 01, 2002; ... May 4: A small demonstration was held to protest the government's censorship of the Internet. About 20 people gathered outside the offices of the Bahrain Telecommunications Company, the country's sole provider of Internet services, demanding an end to blocks placed on several websites deemed ...
Chronology: Iran
Oct 01, 2002; ... See also, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Regional Affairs Apr. 20: The Presidents of Iran and China Mohammad Khatami and Jiang Zemin, signed six cooperation agreements. This event marked the first time a Chinese leader had visited Iran since the 1979 revolution. [BBC, 4/20] Apr. 29: A ...
Chronology: Iraq
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 23: Senior Pentagon officials reported that Iraq had moved more surface-to-air missiles into the no-flight zones in both northern and southern Iraq. [NYT, BBC, 4/23] Apr. 24: Iraq's Foreign Minister, Naji Sabri, confirmed that Iraq would continue cooperating with the United Nations ...
Chronology: Jordan
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 25: Jordanian authorities arrested five members of the banned Islamic Liberation Party. The party had been organizing a statewide campaign to pressure the government to send fighters to help the Palestinians. [AN, 4/25] May 16: Jordan's first woman Member of Parliament (MP), Toujan ...
Chronology: Kuwait
Oct 01, 2002; ... July 3: Kuwait's Finance Minister Yousif al-Ibrahim, survived the no-confidence vote directed against him for concealing information from the national assembly and being involved in vote-rigging during the 1999 elections. Al-Ibrahim ...
Chronology: Lebanon
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 26: Lebanon's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammond, called on the UN to stop Israel's continued violations of Lebanese airspace and sovereignty. [AN, 4/261 May 10: Lebanon's Education Minister `Abdurrahim Murad, announced that KFAED (The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development) would ...
Chronology: Libya
Oct 01, 2002; ... June 2: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced that Canberra had planned to move to resume diplomatic ties with Libya, saying that it believed that Libya was no longer "actively involved in promoting terrorism." According to Downer, Australia intended to strengthen trade and ...
Chronology: Morocco
Oct 01, 2002; ... See Also, Information Technology June 11: At least three al-Qa`ida members, all Saudi nationals, were arrested in connection with plots to attack American and British naval ships in the Straits of Gibraltar. The wives of two of the suspects were arrested as well, on grounds that they ...
Chronology: Pakistan
Oct 01, 2002; ... See Also Regional Affairs Apr. 23: The Pakistani Supreme Court began hearings to address complaints by political parties and Islamic religious groups challenging the constitutionality of April 30 referendum called for by President Musharraf to extend his presidency for five more years ....
Chronology: Qatar
Oct 01, 2002; ... May 30: Qatar ditched its stake in the debt-- laden airline Gulf Air. Officials said the government had decided that efforts to save the carrier from collapse were unlikely to succeed. [BBC, 5/30] June 20: After two days of deliberations at the Arab League headquarters in ...
Chronology: Saudi Arabia
Oct 01, 2002; ... See Also, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Regional Affairs, Iraq Apr. 18: Saudi Arabian ambassador to the UK, Ambassador Dr. Ghazi Algosaibi, also a well known poet in the Arab world, faced censure from the British government after writing a poem in praise of Palestinians suicide bombers, which ...
Chronology: Sudan
Oct 01, 2002; ... May 21: The Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army (SPLA) said that it planned to open a bank and develop its own currency in southern Sudan, where it was in control. [BBC, 5/21] The United States said that it would commit financial and human resources to resolving the civil war in Sudan ...
Chronology: Syria
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 16: In an effort to revive Syria's economy the Syrian Minister of the Economy Ghassan Al-Refa'e stated at a press conference, held in Damascus, that the government would adopt new tax laws and legislation in order to attract foreign investments. [AN, 4/16] May 15: It was reported ...
Chronology: Tunisia
Oct 01, 2002; ... Apr. 22: Tunisian officials confirmed that a blast that killed 18 people on April 12, 11 of whom were German tourists, was premeditated. The explosion was conducted by the driver of a fuel lorry parked outside of a synagogue in Djerba. Reports said that al-- Qa`ida might be linked to the ...
Chronology: Turkey
Oct 01, 2002; ... See Also, Information Technology Apr. 16: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which initiated an armed campaign in Turkey in 1984, proclaimed a change in name-to the Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan (KADEK)-and a change in strategy, declaring that it desired to ...
Chronology: United Arab Emirates
Oct 01, 2002; ... See Also, Iraq Apr. 29: Aid workers in Jenin welcomed an offer by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help rebuild the devastated refugee camp. The UAE said it would rebuild 800 homes destroyed in recent fighting, and it had also sent a plane carrying 40 tons of food and medical supplies ...
Chronology: Yemen
Oct 01, 2002; ... May 18: Sameer Yahia Awadh, the man accused of attacking the United States embassy in Sanaa, was sentenced to ten years in prison. [BBC, 5/18] May 19: Yemeni police fired live shots into the air and used tear gas to ...
Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919-29: King Aman-Al-lah and the Afghan Ulama
Oct 01, 2002; ... Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919-29: King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama, by Senzil K. Nawid. Costa Mesa: CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. xxi +193 pages. Photographs to p. 210. Tables to p. 216. Appends to p. 244. Gloss. to p. 250. Bibl. to p. 268. Index to p. 278. $45 ....
On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s
Oct 01, 2002; ... ARABIAN PENINSULA On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s -1930s, by Linda Boxberger. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. xix + 246 pages. Appends. to p. 251. Notes to p. 276. Select bibl. to p. 286. Index to p. 292. $68.50 cloth; ...
Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise
Oct 01, 2002; ... Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise, by Martha Brill Olcott. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002. xii + 244 pages. Abbrevs. Map. Appends to p. 267. Notes to p. 300. Sel. bibl. to p. 320. About the author. $44 cloth; $24.95 paper. With all the recent ...
Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I
Oct 01, 2002; ... Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I, by Donald Malcolm Reid. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 2002. xiii + 297 pages. Maps. Figures. Appendix to p. 30. Notes to p. 363. Sel. bibl. to p. 383 ....
Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah
Oct 01, 2002; ... Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah, by Afshin Matin-asgari. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2002. xiii + 165 pages. Notes to p. 226. Illust. to p. 246. Append. to p. 259. Bibl. to p. 275. Index to p. 286. $35 cloth; $28 paper. Stock histories of the Iranian Revolution invariably ...
Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights
Oct 01, 2002; ... Ervand Abrahamian teaches in the City University of New York Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights, by Behzad Yaghmaian. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. x + 232 pages. Notes to p. 261. Bibl. to p. 266. Index ...
Debating Islam in the Jewish State: The Development of Policy Toward Islamic Institutions in Israel
Oct 01, 2002; ... Debating Islam in the Jewish State: The Development of Policy Toward Islamic Institutions in Israel, by Alisa Rubin Peled. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. xii + 158 pages. Appends. to p. 166. Notes to p. 208. Bibl. to p. 228. Index to 239. $62.50 cloth; $20.95 paper ....
Rabin and Israel's National Security
Oct 01, 2002; ... Rabin and Israel's National Security, by Efraim Inbar. Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Press, 1999. xiv + 190 pages. Notes to p. 246. Bibl. to p. 266. Index to p. 276. $32. As a general, diplomat, politician and statesman, Yitzhak ...
Hizb'ullah: Politics & Religion
Oct 01, 2002; ... Hizb'ullah: Politics & Religion, by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb. London, UK: Pluto Press, 2002. x + 191 pages. Appends. to p. 193. Gloss. to p. 195. Notes to p. 234. Bibl. to p. 242. Index to p. 254. $22.50 paper. The subject of Hizb'ullah (Hizballah, Party of God) has generated much ...
Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict
Oct 01, 2002; ... Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict, by Samir Khalaf. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xxiv + 328 pages. Notes to p. 334. Bibl. to p. 351. Index to p. 368. $32.50. According to the dust jacket notes, this is "a ...
America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood
Oct 01, 2002; ... America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, by Lawrence Davidson. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001. 222 pages. Notes to p. 252. Bibl. to p. 257. Index to p. 264. $55. Explaining United States policy toward the Middle East ...
Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and the Italian Renaissance, 1300-1600
Oct 01, 2002; ... Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and the Italian Renaissance, 1300-1600, by Rosamond Mack. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, 2002. ix + 188 pages. Notes to p. 222. Gloss. to p. 225. Bibl. to p. 240. Index to p. 257. $65. Reviewed by Eva R ....
The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale, by Nesta Ramazani. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. xvi + 294 pages. Gloss. to p. 302. $26.95. This book is an autobiographical account of the life of the author in Iran from childhood to marriage. It spans a period from ...
Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East
Oct 01, 2002; ... Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East, by Naomi Sakr. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2002. xii + 208 pages. Tables. Gloss. Notes to p. 241. Bibl. to p. 251. Index to p. 266. $65 cloth; $22.50 paper. Satellite Realms is one of the most important, if not ...
The Israeli-Egyptian Peace Process in the Reporting of Western Journalists
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Israeli-Egyptian Peace Process in the Reporting of Western Journalists, by Mohammed el-Nawawy. Westport, CT and London, UK: Ablex Publishing, 2002. xiv + 187 pages. Appends. to p. 189. Refs. to p. 209. Index to p. 214. $64.95 cloth; 24.95 paper. Numerous books have explored conflict and the ...
al-Demoqratiyah wa Tahadiyat al-Hadatna bayn al-Sharq wa al-Gharb [Challenges of modernity: Western and Islamic Perspectives]
Oct 01, 2002; ... al-Demoqratiyah wa Tahadiyat alHadatna bayn al-Sharq wa al-Gharb [Challenges of Modernity: Western and Islamic Perspectives, by Iliya Harik. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Saqi, 2001. (in Arabic). 413 pages. n.p. In this book, Iliya Harik presents a powerful argument for the ...
Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire
Oct 01, 2002; ... Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Benjamin C. Forma. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 247 pages. Bibl. to p. 274. Index to p. 280. $74. A welcome addition to the growing body of revisionist scholarship on Ottoman ...
The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Liberty Incident: the 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship, by A.J. Cristol. Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2002. 201 pages. Epilogue to p. 205. Appends. to p. 272. Bibl. to p. 294. $27.50. This is the most thorough study to date of the attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli ...
The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism, by Abdulaziz Sachedina. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii+139 pages. Notes to p. 161. Bibl. to p. 168. Index to p. 175. $25. Abdulaziz Sachedina's goal in The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism is "to demonstrate ...
Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
Oct 01, 2002; ... Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East, by Marc Gopin. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 228 pages. Notes to p. 254. Bibl. Index to p. 269. $29.95. This volume follows closely on the heels of Gopin's first Oxford University ...
An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 1 / An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 2
Oct 01, 2002; ... An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 1, ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Mehdi Aminrazavi. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxx + 411 pages. Bibl. to p. 413. Index to p. 434. n.p. An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 2, ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Mehdi ...
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide
Oct 01, 2002; ... Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide, by Bat Ye'or. Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 400 pages, Appends. to p. 422. Notes to p. 269. Gloss. to p. 271. Bibl. to p. 507. Index to p. 528. $60 cloth; $19.95 paper. No matter how much dispassion and ...
Women in Islam: The Western Experience
Oct 01, 2002; ... Women in Islam: The Western Experience, by Anne Sophie Roald. London, UK and London and New York, 2001. xv +302 pages. Notes to p 314. List of scholars to p. 316. Gloss. to p 320. Bibl. to p. 332. Index to p. 339. $25.95 paper. This is a book about the views of a converted woman through ...
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, and Cairo
Oct 01, 2002; ... Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, and Cairo, by Susan Osman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. x + 162 pages. Gloss. to p. 190. Sel. bibl. to p. 196. Index to p. 204. $54.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. Susan Osman offers readers an innovative look at status, power, and cultural ...
Chronology: Egypt
Oct 01, 2002; ... See also, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Information Technology, Petroleum Affairs, Regional Affairs May 19: Egypt recovered a statue of an ancient pharaoh from the Netherlands, which was stolen 15 years ago from a warehouse in the south of Egypt. The statue of King Amenhotep III was taken to ...