Is There a Future for Middle East Studies? (1994 MESA Presidential Address) Rashid Khalidi 

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Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina Andras Riedlmayer 

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Turks in Germany: Overview of the Literature Jenny B. White 

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Musics of Algeria: Selected Recordings Dwight Reynolds 

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Islamic Economics: The Surest Path? Arun Kapil 

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Arab Astronomy, Recovered Renaissance C.S.F. Burnett 

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Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Competition, 1994

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Albert Hourani Book Award 

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Research & Teaching Resources 

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Gophers & Other Information Servers 

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New E-mail Discussion Lists 

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Updates

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Scholarly Societies, Periodicals & Publication Series

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Modern History & Politics: Maghreb Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904), (John Ruedy) 

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Michael M. Laskier, North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (Fred Astren) 

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Harvey E. Goldberg, The Book of Mordekhai: A Study of the Jews of Libya. Selections from the Higgid Mordekhai of Mordechai Hakohen (Norman A. Stillman) 

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Ali Abdtillatif Ahmida, The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonization, and Resistance, 1830-1932 (Weston F. Cook, Jr.) 

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Modern History & Politics: Central Middle East

Kirk J. Beattie, Egypt During the Nasser Years: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Society (Vernon Egger) 

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Mohamed Abdel Ghani El-Gamasy, The October War: Memoirs of Field Marshal El-Gamasy of Egypt (Avraham Sela) 

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Ebba Augustin, ed. Palestinian Women, Identity and Experience (Bassam K. Abed) 

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Shaul Ephraim Cohen, The Politics of Planting: Israeli- Palestinian Competition for the Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery (Garth Katner  

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Robert B. Satloff, From Abdullah to Hussin: Jordan in Transition (Eugene Rogan) 

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Youssef M. Choueiri, ed. State and Society in Syria and Lebanon (David Waldner) 

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Canan Balkir & Allan M. Williams, ed. Turkey and Europe (Marcie J. Patton) 

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Ann Zwicker Kerr, Come With Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey (Helena Cobban) 

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Ellis Goldberg, Resat Kasaba & Joel S. Migdal, ed. Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society(Glenn E. Robinson)  

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Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islams and Modernities (Irene L. Gendzier) 

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Fatima Mernissi, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (Marilyn Booth) 

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Heather Deegan, The Middle East and Problems of Democracy (Glenn E. Robinson)  

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Dan Tschirgi, ed. The Arab World Today (Joe Stork) 

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Bassam Tibi, Conflict and War in the Middle East, 1967 91: Regional Dynamic and the Superpowers (Tareq Y. Ismael) 

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Lillian Craig Harris, China Considers the Middle East(Andrew C. Hess

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Modern History & Politics: Gulf & Arabian Peninsula Haim Shemesh, Soviet-Iraqi Relations, 1968 1988: In theShadow of the Iraq-Iran Conflict (Ahmad A. R.Shikara) 

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Amatzia Baram & Barry Rubin, ed. Iraq s Road to War (Robert D. Burrowes)

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Jehan S. Rajab, Invasion Kuwait: An Englishwoman s Tale (Jason Thompson)

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Geoff Simons, Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam (Salwa Ismail) 

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W. Thom Workman, The Social Origins of The Iran-Iraq War (Pete W. Moore) 

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Tareq Y. Ismael & Jacqueline S. Ismael, The Gulf War and the New World Order (Paul Kingston)

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  Ronnie Miller, Following the Americans to the Persian Gulf:Canada, Australia and the Development of the New World Order (Rex Brynen)

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Richard Schofield, ed. Territorial Foundations of the Gulf States (Malcolm C. Peck)

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Joseph Kostiner, The Making of Saudi Arabia, 1916-1936: From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State (Rosemarie Said Zahlan)

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Joseph A. Kechichian, ed. Political Dynamics and Security in the Arabian Peninsula Through the 1990s (Rear Admiral
Harold J. Bernsen, USN (RET)) 

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Modern History & Politics: Iran & Central Asia 

H.B. Paksoy, ed. Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History (Adeeb Khalid)

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Stephen Frederick Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (Rudi Mathee)

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Marvin G. Weinbaum, Pakistan and Afghanistan: Resistance and Reconstruction (Kamal Ali Beyoghlow)

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Barnett R. Rubin, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System(Richard S. Newell)

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Economics & Geography 

Abbas Alnasrawi, The Economy of Iraq: Oil, War, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950 2010 (Robert
Looney)

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Thierry Coville, ed. L'economie de l'Iran islamique: entre l'etat et le marche (Farhad Nomani)

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Peter Rogers & Peter Lydon, ed. Water in the Arab World: Perspectives and Prognoses (Donald Malcolm Reid)

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History & Historiography before 1900 

Albrecht Noth, The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study (Muhammad Qasim Zaman) 

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Aiman Ibrahim, Der Herausbildungsprozess des arabisch- islamischen Staates (Paul M. Cobb)

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G. Rex Smith, trans. & annot. The History of al- Tabari, Vol XIV: The Conquest of Iran (M. Reza Afshari)

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Claude Addas, Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn Arabi (Gabriel Lahood)

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Farhad Daftary, The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma ilis (James E. Lindsay)

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Clifford Edmond Bosworth, The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz (247/861 to 949/1542-3) (M.A.J. Beg)

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Carl F. Petry, Twilight of Majesty: The Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans al-Ashraf Qaytbay and Qan suh al-Ghawri in Egypt (Matthew S. Gordon 

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Weston F. Cook, Jr., The Hundred Years War for Morocco: Gunpowder and the Military Revolution in the Early
Muslim World (Jacob Abadi)

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Ronald C. Jennings, Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571-1640 (Daniel J. Sahas)

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Rika Gyselen, ed. Circulation des Monnaies, des Marchandises et des Biens, (Muhammad Al-Faruque) 

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Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Egypt s Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf & Architecture in Cairo (16th &
17th Centuries) (Daniel Crecelius)

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R.S. O'Fahey, comp. The Writings of Eastern Sudanic Africato c. 1900 (Jay Spaulding)

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Raoul Curiel & Rika Gyselen, ed. Itineraires d Orient, Hommages a Claude Cahen (Charles Issawi)

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Art History & Architecture 

Milo Cleveland Beach, The New Cambridge History of India: Mughal and Rajput Painting (Amina Okada)

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Robert Hillenbrand, ed. The Art of the Saljuks in Iran and Anatolia: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Edinburgh in 1982 (Scott Redford) 

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Michael Meinecke, Die Mamlukische Architektur in Agypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 92311517) (Marianne Barrucand)

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Marie Lukens Swietochowski & Stefano Carboni, with essays by A. Morton & Tomoko Masuya, Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s (Eleanor Sims 

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Yves Porter, Peinture et Arts du Livre: Essai sur la litterature technique indo-persane (David J. Roxburgh) 

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Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore 

Lee Horne, Village Spaces: Settlement and Society in Northeastern Iran (Patty Jo Watson) 

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Beth Baron, The Women s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society and the Press (Kirsten E. Schulze)

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Valentine M. Moghadam, ed. Identity Politics & Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in InternationalPerspective (Julie Peteet)

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Ursula Kingsmill Hart, Behind the Courtyard Door: The Daily Life of Tribeswomen in Northern Morocco (Susan Schaefer Davis)

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Joanna Kai, ed. Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists (Diana Abu-Jaber)

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Paul Dresch, Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen (Alexander Knysh) 

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Daphne Tsimhoni, Christian Communities in Jersualem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social, and Political Study (LaVerne Kuhnke 

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John H. Melkon Rose, Armenians of Jerusalem: Memories of Life in Palestine (LaVerne Kuhnke) 

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Bozkurt Guvenc, Turk Kimligi: Kultur Tarihinin Kaynaklar (Carter Vaughn Findley)

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Sandra Shaw, ed. Doctor Mary in Arabia: Memoirs by Mary Bruins Allison, MD (Eleanor Abdella Doumato)

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Lewis Pyenson, Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940 (Dale F. Eickelman)

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Frances Trix, Spiritual Discourse: Learning with an Islamic Master (Walter Feldman) 

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Religious & Legal Studies 

H.T. Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World (Michael A. Sells)

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Richard W. Bulliet, Islam: The View from the Edge (Mangol Bayat) 

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F.E. Peters, A Reader on Classical Islam (Nicholas Heer)

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Ya hya Ibn Sharaf Al-Nawawi, Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam (Devin J. Stewart)

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Ali Dashti, 23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad (Linda S. Walbridge

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Leonard Lewisohn, ed. The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism  (Jamal J. Elias)

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Bruce B. Lawrence, trans. & annot. Morals for the Heart: Conversations of Shaykh Nizam ad-din Awliya (Alan A. Godlas)

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Barbara Freyer Stowasser, Women in the Qur'an, Traditions and Interpretation (Tamara Sonn)

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Language & Literature 

Grace Martin Smith, The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet (Talat Sait Halman)

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Hadrat `Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, The Secret of Secrets (Bruce B. Lawrence)

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Michael A. Sells, trans. Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes, `Alqama, Shanfara, Labid, `An`ara, Al- A`sha and Dhu al-Rumma (Adel S. Gamal)

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Victoria Rowe Holbrook, The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance (Talat Sait Halman)

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Saddeka Arebi, Women and Words in Saudi Arabia, The Politics of Literary Discourse (Eleanor A. Doumato)

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Samia Mehrez, ed. Egyptian Writers Between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim & Gamal al-Ghitani (Roger Allen)

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Keneth Whitehead & Kevin Anderson, trans. For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech (Miriam Cooke) 

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Out el Kouloub, Ramza (Beth Baron)

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Karin C. Ryding & Abdelnour Zaiback, Formal Spoken Arabic, Fast Course (Rkia Elaroui Cornell)

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Ibn Kamal Pasha, Ta Riib Al-Kalima Al-a Ghamiyyay (Dr. Lutz Edzard) 

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Reference Works 

Edna Lauden & Liora Weinbach, Multi-Dictionary, Hebrew- Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew (Sadok Masliyah)

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Michael E. Bonine, Eckart Ehlers, Thomas Krafft & George Stober, eds. The Middle Eastern City and Islamic Urbanism: An Annotated Bibliography of Western Literature (Jon W. Anderson)

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Lutz Ilisch, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen: Palastina IVa Bilad as-Sam I (Michael L. Bates)

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Briefly Noted 

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Audiovisuals 

Quest for Change: Civil Society in the Middle East (Herbert L. Bodman) 

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Islamic Fundamentalism and Democracy (Vernon Egger) 

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Not Without My Veil: Women in Oman (Aida A. Bamia)

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Terrorism and Kebab (Carrie Rosefsky Wickham)

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Muslims in France (Bruce B. Lawrence) 

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Muslims in Bulgaria (Bruce B. Lawrence)

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Software & Multimedia 

The Sono-Qur'an, recited by Sheikh Mahmud Sadiq Al-Minshawi  (Sherman A. Jackson)