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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 26 Number 2 December 1992
Table of Contents
| Editorial | 157 |
| Arabic on the Macintosh: Overview and Review, A. Kevin Reinhart | 159 |
| The DANTES Survey of Courses in Contemporary Middle East Studies, Lori Anne Salem | 167 |
Research Resources |
179 |
| Going On-Line: The Middle East on Internet | 179 |
| ULASMAI - A Progress Report | 185 |
| The Encyclop‘dia Iranica - A Progress Report | 187 |
| The Oral History of Iran Collections | 189 |
| Maghreb Maps Collection at CEMAT Library | 190 |
| Where Can I Get the Latest Arabic Books? | 190 |
| On-Line Reference Librarians | 191 |
| Journals & Programs | 191 |
Book Reviews |
194 |
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| Martin Hinds, trans. & annot., The History of Al-Tabarþ, Vol.XXIII, The Zenith of the Marwþnþd House, (Khalid Yahya Blankinship) | 194 |
| Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Qur'þnic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis, (Keith Lewinstein) | 195 |
| Douglas Patton, Badr al-Dþn Lu'lu': Atabeg of Mosul, 1211-1259, (Reuven Amitai-Preiss) | 196 |
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200 |
| Ali El-Kenz, Algerian Reflections on Arab Crises, (John P.Entelis) | 200 |
| Fawzy Mansour, The Arab World: Nation, State and Democracy, (Fred H. Lawson) | 201 |
| Ian J. Bickerton & Carla L. Klausner, A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, (Deborah L. Wheeler) | 201 |
| Khamsin Group, Palestine: Profile of an Occupation, (Leila Meo) 203 | 203 |
| Helena Cobban, The Superpowers and the Syrian-Israeli Conflict, (Laurie A. Brand) | 204 |
| Agnes G. Korbani, U.S. Intervention in Lebanon, 1958 and 1982: Presidential Decisionmaking, (David W. Lesch) | 205 |
| Keith Kyle, Suez, (Hermann Frederick Eilts) | 206 |
| John 0. Voll, ed., Sudan: State and Society in Crisis, (Omer K. Alptekin) | 208 |
| Ghada Hashem Talhami, Palestine and Egyptian National Identity, (James Jankowksi) | 209 |
| Robert 0. Freedman, ed., The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada, (Daniel E. Spector) | 210 |
| Philip Robins, Turkey and the Middle East, (Ahmet Kuyaþ) | 211 |
| Derek J. Penslar, Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870-1918 (Donna Robinson Divine) | 212 |
| Laurence J. Silberstein, ed., New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State, (Kevin Avruch) | 213 |
| Itamar Rabinovich, The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations, (Neil Caplan) | 214 |
| Shibley Telhami, Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords, (Deborah J.Gerner) | 215 |
| Amin Saikal & William Maley, Regime Change in Afghanistan: Foreign Intervention and the Politics of Legitimacy, (Thomas J. Barfield) | 216 |
| Graham E. Fuller, The “Center of the Universe”: The Geopolitics of Iran, (Reza Afshari) | 218 |
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220 |
| Kamran Mofid, The Economic Consequences of the Gulf War, (Robert Looney) | 220 |
| Richard Schofield, Kuwait and Iraq: Historical Claims and Territorial Disputes, (Robert G. Landen) | 221 |
| Haim Bresheeth & Nira Yuval-Davis, ed., The Gulf War and the New World Order, (Fred H. Lawson) | 222 |
| Stephen C. Pelletiere, The Iran-Iraq War: Chaos in a Vacuum, (Mark Gasiorowski) | 223 |
| Abbas Alnasrawi, Arab Nationalism, Oil, and the Political Economy of Dependency, (Elias H. Tuma) | 224 |
| M. Sami Kassem and Chazi M. Habib, Strategic Management of Services in the Arab Gulf States: Company and Industry Cases, (Monte Palmer) | 225 |
| Glen Balfour-Paul, The End of Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Relinquishment of Power in Her Last Three Arab Dependencies, (Charles D. Smith) | 226 |
| Fouad Al-Farsy, Modernity and Tradition: The Saudi Equation, (David E. Long) | 227 |
| William Facey, Riyadh: The Old City From Its Origins Until the 1950s, (William Ochsenwald) | 228 |
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229 |
| Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing, (Denise A. Spellberg) | 229 |
| Nawal El Saadawi, Searching, (Miriam Cooke) | 230 |
| Emily Nasrallah, A House Not Her Own - Stories from Beirut, (Henri Zoghaib) | 230 |
| Khalil Hawi & Nadeem Na‹my, From the Vineyards of Lebanon, (Henri Zoghaib) | 231 |
| Henri Zoghaib, Love Poems in Forbidden Time, (Miriam Cooke) | 233 |
| Nahid Rachlin, Veils, (Farzaneh Milani) | 233 |
| Jalƒl Al-e Ahmad, By the Pen, (Nasrin Rahimieh) | 235 |
| Dionisius Agius, The Study of Arabic in Malta, 1632 to 1915, (M.G. Carter) | 236 |
| Sultan Tulu, Chorasantrkische Materialien aus Kalþt bei Esfarþyen, (Robert Dankoff) | 237 |
| Badr ad-Dþn Ibrþhþm, Farhang-i Zafþngþyþ va Jahþnpþyþ, (Donald L. Stilo) | 238 |
| Yasien Mohamed & Muhammed Haron, First Steps in Arabic Grammar, (Roger Allen) | 239 |
| Muge Galin, Turkish Sampler: Writings for All Readers, (Victoria Holbrook) | 240 |
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241 |
| Nazih N. Ayubi, Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Arab World, (Sayyed Vali Reza Nasr) | 241 |
| William Montgomery Watt, Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity, (Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi') | 242 |
| Jacob M. Landau, The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization, (Ali Akbar Mahdi) | 243 |
| Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, (Aaron Segal) | 244 |
| Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, (Ahmad Dallal) | 245 |
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248 |
| Michael Romann & Alex Weingrod, Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem, (Walter P. Zenner) | 248 |
| Aaron Antonovsky, The Sociology of Health and Health Care in Israel, (Ali Akbar Mahdi) | 249 |
| Aziz Haidar, Social Welfare Services for Israel's Arab Population, (Ali Akbar Mahdi) | 249 |
| Amira el-Azhary Sonbol, The Creation of a Medical Profession In Egypt, 1800-1922, (Gregory Starrett) | 250 |
| Seteney Shami, Lucine Taminian, Soheir Morsy, Zeinab El Bkri & El Wathig Kameir, Women in Arab Society: Work Patterns and Gender Relations in Egypt, Jordan and Sudan, (Mervat Hatem) | 251 |
| Julie Peteet, Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement, (Sherifa Zuhur) | 252 |
| Sattareh Farman Farmaian with Dona Munker, Daughter of Persia: A Woman’s Journey From Her Father’s Harem Through the Islamic Revolution, (Afsaneh Najmabadi) | 253 |
| Henry Munson, Jr, ed. & trans., The House of Sidi Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family, (Deborah A. Kapchan) | 255 |
| Michael M. Gunter, The Kurds in Turkey: A Political Dilemma, (Emine Onaran Incirlioglu) | 256 |
| Sheri J. Laizer, Into Kurdistan: Frontiers Under Fire, (Emine Onaran Incirlioglu) | 256 |
| Richard Tapper, ed., Islam in Modern Turkey: Religion, Politics and Literature in a Secular State, (Emelie A. Olson) | 257 |
| Anton Escher, Sozialgeographische Aspekte Raumpraegender Entwicklungsprozesse, (Alexander Melamid) | 258 |
| Jo-Ann Gross, ed., Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, (Tamara Sonn) | 259 |
| Ladislav Holy, Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society: The Berti of Sudan, (Daniel Martin Varisco) | 260 |
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262 |
| Jerrilyn D. Dodds, ed., Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, (Jere L. Bacharach) | 262 |
| Nurhan Atasoy & Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, (Irene A. Bierman) | 263 |
| Robert E. Darley-Doran, History of Currency in the Sultanate of Oman, (Jere L. Bacharach) | 264 |
| Yizhar Hirschfeld, Judean Monasteries in the Byzantine Period, (Sidney H. Griffith) | 265 |
Audiovisuals Reviews |
267 |
| The Mountain, (Kathryn V. Johnson) | 267 |
| Puppeteer, (Kathryn V. Johnson) | 268 |
| A Door to the Sky, (Miriam Cooke) | 269 |
| Lizbeth Malkmus & Roy Armes, Arab and African Film Making, (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 270 |
Computing Software Reviews |
272 |
| Farsi: The Persian Language Learning System, (John R. Perry) | 272 |
| Countries of the World, (Jon W. Anderson) | 273 |
| KGB-CIA World Factbook, (Jon W. Anderson) | 273 |
Short Notices |
275 |
Recent Conferences |
282 |
Ph.D.s Received |
302 |
In Memoriam |
306 |
MESA Financial Report |
308 |
Communications & Updates |
311 |
COVER: Engraved brass astrolabe designed and crafted by Mohamed
Zakariya, Arlington, VA. Photo: David Sharpe
