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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 32 Number 1 Summer 1998
Table of Contents
| Editorial | 1 |
| Swimming Against the Tide: Personal Passions and Academic Fashions (1997 Presidential Address) Leila Fawaz | 2 |
Globalization and the Nation State in the Arab World Ahmad S. Moussalli |
11 |
| Between Celebration of Independence and Commemoration of Al-Nakbah: The Controversy over the Roots of the Israeli State Baruch Kimmerling | 15 |
Expanding Kurdish Studies Nicole Watts |
19 |
| Religion and Politics: The Complex Relationship between Islamism and the State Malika Zeghal | 25 |
| The Center for the Study of Developing Countries Mustapha Kamel El-Sayyid | 29 |
| Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Competition, 1997 | 33 |
| Foundation for Iranian Studies Dissertation of the Year Award | 35 |
| Albert Hourani Book Award, 1997 | 36 |
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| Nathan J. Brown, The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf (Bruce Rutherford) |
37 |
| Asghar Ali Engineer, The Rights of Women in Islam (Mine Ener) | 38 |
| Heinz Halm, Shi`a Islam: From Religion to Revolution (Asma Afsaruddin) | 39 |
| Jeffrey Lang, Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam (Amir Hussain) | 40 |
| Anahit Perikhanian, The Book of a Thousand Judgements (A Sasanian Law-Book) (J.A. Scurlock) |
41 |
| Sheila R. Canby, The Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi 'Abbasi of Isfahan (Massumeh Farhad) | 174 |
| Amira El Azhary Sonbol, ed., Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History (Eleanor Abdella Doumato) |
42 |
| Fatollah Akbar, The Eye of the Ant: Persian Proverbs and Poems (Paul Losensky) | 176 |
| Michael Wolfe, ed., One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage (Michael D. Berdine) | 43 |
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| Thomas T. Allsen, Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Bernard O'Kane) | 44 |
| Ebadollah Bahari, Bihzad: Master of Persian Painting (Marianna Shreve Simpson) |
45 |
| Henry Krawitz, ed., Picturing the Middle East: A Hundred Years of European Imperialism: A Symposium (Caroline Williams) |
47 |
| Michael Meinecke, Patterns of Stylistic Change in Islamic Architecture: Local Traditions versus Migrating Artists (Jonathan M. Bloom) |
48 |
| Amir Pasic, Islamic Architecture in Bosnia and Hercegovina (Besim S. Hakim) | 49 |
| James L. Wescoat, Jr. & Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, eds., Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects (Holly Edwards) |
50 |
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| Hanan Al-Shaykh, Beirut Blues (Judith Caesar) | 51 |
| Mahshid Amirshahi, Suri & Co.: Tales of a Persian Teenage Girl (Feroza Jussawalla) | 52 |
| Amin Banani, Richard Hovannisian, & Georges Sabagh, eds., Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi (Amir Hussain) | 53 |
| Out El Kouloub, Zanouba (Linda S. Thomas) | 54 |
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| Jenny Balfour-Paul, Indigo in the Arab World (Beatrice Nicolini) | 55 |
| Daniel R. Brower & Edward J. Lazzerini, eds., Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917 (Bahram Tavakolian) |
56 |
| John Walter Jandora, Militarism in Arab Society: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Sourcebook (John L. Meloy) |
57 |
| Charles Lindholm, The Islamic Middle East: An Historical Anthropology (Daniel Martin Varisco) | 58 |
| R.D. McChesney, Central Asia: Foundations of Change (Devin DeWeese) | 59 |
| Jaroslav Stetkevych, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth (Michael A. Sells) | 60 |
| Christopher Walker, Visions of Ararat: Writings on Armenia (Lorne Shirinian) | 62 |
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| Galal A. Amin, Egypt's Economic Predicament: A Study in the Interaction of External Pressure, Political Folly and Social Tension in Egypt, 1960-1990 (Mona Said) |
63 |
| Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East (Iliya Harik) |
64 |
| Hala Fattah, The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf, 1745-1900 (Jeffrey B. Nugent) |
65 |
| Gad G. Gilbar, The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond: Essays in Political Economy (Djavad Salehi-Isfahani) |
66 |
| Noah Lewin-Epstein & Moshe Semyonov, The Arab Minority in Israel's Economy: Patterns of Ethnic Inequality (Ruth Klinov) | 67 |
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| Rahma Bourqia, Mounira Charrad & Nancy Gallagher, eds., Femmes, Culture et Societe au Maghreb: Culture, Femmes et Famille (Vol. I) et Femmes, Pouvoir Politique et Developpement (Susanne H. Steinmann) |
69 |
| David B. Edwards, Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (Akbar Ahmed) | 70 |
| Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, ed., Children in the Muslim Middle East (Amal Rassam) |
71 |
| Michael Gorkin & Rafiqa Othman, Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women’s Stories (Joost R. Hiltermann) | 72 |
| Ramsey M. Harik & Elsa Marston, Women in the Middle East: Tradition and Change (Ann Zwicker Kerr) | 73 |
| Anne M. Jennings, The Nubians of West Aswan: Village Women in the Midst of Change (Robert A. Fernea) | 74 |
| Marc Lavergne & Guy Duvigneau, eds., Monde Arabe: Le Retour du Local (Laurence Michalak) | 75 |
| Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land (Daniel Martin Varisco) |
76 |
| John Maier, Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the West (Deborah Kapchan) | 77 |
| Annelies Moors, Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990 (Beshara Doumani) | 78 |
| Evelyn Shakir, Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States (Barbara C. Aswad) | 79 |
| Karin Van Nieuwkerk, A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt (Virginia Danielson) | 80 |
| Onn Winckler, Population Growth and Migration in Jordan, 1950-1994 (Laurie Brand) | 82 |
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| James A. Bill, George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy (Henry Precht) |
83 |
| Rex Brynen, Bahgat Korany & Paul Noble, eds., Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World, Vol. I (Marsha Pripstein Posusney) |
84 |
| Galia Golan, Soviet Policies in the Middle East: from World War II to Gorbachev (Oles M. Smolansky) |
85 |
| Ali Harb, The Illusions of the Elite or Criticizing the Intellectual (Turki Ali Rabi'u) |
86 |
| Marianne Heiberg, ed., Subduing Sovereignty: Sovereignty and the Right to Intervene (Robert A. Rubinstein) |
88 |
| George Joffe, ed., North Africa: Nations, States and Region (Azzedine Layachi) |
89 |
| Hasan Kayali, Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 (Palmira Brummett) | 90 |
| Martin Kramer, ed., The Islamism Debate (Robert Looney) | 91 |
| Karl Laske, Le banquier noir: Francois Genoud (Arun Kapil) | 92 |
| Pierre Pean, L'extremiste: Francois Genoud, de Hitler a Carlos (Arun Kapil) | 92 |
| Robert Malley, The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Return to Islam (Jeffrey T. Kenney) |
94 |
| Hisham Melhem, Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy (David Priess) |
95 |
| Timothy Mitchell, Democracy and the State in the Arab World (Ahmad Hussein Hasan Hassanin) |
97 |
| Andrew J. Pierre & William B. Quandt, The Algerian Crisis: Policy Options for the West (Azzedine Layachi) |
98 |
| Daniel Pipes, The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy (Jeffrey T. Kenney) |
99 |
| Yezid Sayigh & Avi Shlaim, eds., The Cold War and the Middle East (Irene
L. Gendzier) |
100 |
| Raymond Tanter, Rogue Regimes: Terrorism and Proliferation (Peter Gran) | 102 |
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| Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Gharbzadegi [Weststruckness] (Valla Vakili) | 103 |
| Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Farhang Rajaee) | 104 |
| James Goode, The United States and Iran: In the Shadow of Musaddiq (Henry Precht) |
105 |
| Hasan Onat, Shi`ism in the Twentieth Century and the Islamic Revolution of Iran (Michael P. Zirinsky) |
106 |
| Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi & Ali Mohammadi, Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution (Fatma Muge Gocek) | 107 |
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| A.J. Abraham, The Lebanon War (Imad Harb) | 108 |
| Michael N. Barnett, ed., Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (Esther Fuchs) |
109 |
| Laurie A. Brand, Jordan's Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making (Bassel F. Salloukh) |
110 |
| Raphael Cohen-Almagor, The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance: The Struggle Against Kahanism (Deborah L. Wheeler) | 111 |
| Michael Cohn, Jewish Bridges: East to West (Antonio Donno) | 113 |
| Harold M. Cubert, The PFLP's Changing Role in the Middle East (As'ad AbuKhalil) |
114 |
| Samih K. Farsoun with Christina E. Zacharia, Palestine and the Palestinians (Glenn E. Robinson) |
115 |
| Amitzur Ilan, The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Arms Race: Arms, Embargo, Military Power and Decision in the 1948 Palestine War (Robert Hazan) |
116 |
| Elisha Kally with Gideon Fishelson, Water Resources and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Elizabeth Picard) | 117 |
| Efraim Karsh, Fabricating Israeli History: The “New Historians”
(William B. Quandt) |
118 |
| Michael Keren, Professionals Against Populism: The Peres Government and Democracy (Ziva Flamhaft) |
119 |
| Keith Kyle & Joel Peters, eds., Whither Israel? The Domestic Challenge (Russell A. Stone) |
120 |
| Pnina Lahav, Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century (Ilan Peleg) |
121 |
| Yehuda Lukacs, Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process (Maen F. Nsour) | 122 |
| Nafez Y. Nazzal & Laila A. Nazzal, Historical Dictionary of Palestine
(Issa Khalaf) |
124 |
| Richard B. Parker, ed., The Six-Day War: A Retrospective (F. Gregory Gause, III) |
124 |
| Glenn E. Robinson, Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution (Sara Roy) |
126 |
| Jay Rothman, Resolving Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations and Communities (Anthony Bing) |
127 |
| Asher Susser, On Both Banks of the Jordan: A Political Biography of Wasfi al-Tall (Bassel F. Salloukh) |
128 |
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| Islam in Tibet: “The Ornaments of Lhasa” (John R. Perry) | 129 |
| Lebanon: Imprisoned Splendour (Elise Salem Manganaro) | 130 |
| Morocco: The Past and Present of Djemma el Fna (Dale F. Eickelman) | 131 |
| Boujad: A Nest in the Heat (Dale F. Eickelman) | 131 |
| Nasser 56 (Donald Malcolm Reid) | 133 |
| One Man’s Pilgrimage to Mecca (The Hajj) (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 134 |
| Salman Rushdie - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Rosalind Gwynne) | 134 |
| The Sultan’s Burden (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 136 |
In Memoriam |
137 |
Correspondence |
144 |
Index of Essays, Vol. 21 (1987) - Vol. 30 (1996) |
145 |
Index of Audio-Visuals, Vol. 21 (1987) - Vol. 30 (1996) |
149 |
Index of Memorials, Vol. 21 (1987) - Vol. 30 (1996) |
153 |
Index of Communications, Vol. 21 (1987) - Vol. 30 (1996) |
154 |
Cover: Muhammad Ali mosque, Cairo, June 1987 (Photo by A. Lesch)
