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Article: Middle Eastern Lectures, Number 3, 1999.(Review)
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- Middle Eastern Studies
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- April 1, 2000
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Middle Eastern Lectures, Number 3, 1999 edited by Martin Kramer Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (distributed by Syracuse University Press, New York). Pp. 129. $14.95.
Good lectures promote thought and perhaps the most useful tribute that a reviewer can offer to the present stimulating collection of examples of the art is to allow his thoughts to wander in response to the ideas and information which are contained in this volume. Two lectures deal with the current prospects of Iran and they present a very similar and familiar picture, namely one of a struggle within the Islamic Republic between a liberal, reforming group, led by ...