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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 34 Number 1 Summer 2000
Table of Contents
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Essays |
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| 1999 Presidential Address: “A Time to Reap” Barbara Freyer Stowasser |
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Software and Technology Review: Multilingual Computing in Middle East Studies Josef W. Meri |
14 |
| The Information Revolution and the Arab World Jon B. Alterman | 21 |
| Middle East Studies in Japan Miyazi Kazuo | 23 |
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Studying Palestinian-Israeli Relations at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA) Deborah L. Wheeler |
38 |
| Discussing Islam and Modernity Armando Salvatore & Dale F. Eickelman | 41 |
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The Middle East and the Peace Process: Separation or Integration? Charles D. Smith |
47 |
| Perspectives on the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jacob Abadi | 50 |
| Circles and Centers: A Review Article Carol Bier | 56 |
| Publications of the Al-Urdun Al-Jadid Research Center Hani Hourani | 59 |
| Locating the Ottomans in North America Virginia Aksan | 68 |
| 1999 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards | 70 |
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Leila Abouzeid, Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman (Alison Baker) |
74 |
| Mona Al-Munajjed, Women in Saudi Arabia Today (Marianne Alireza) | 75 |
| Asef Bayat, Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran (Haleh Vaziri) | 76 |
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Fay Afaf Kanafani, Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman (Susan Schaefer Davis) |
77 |
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Deniz Kandiyoti, ed., Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives (Ellen Fleischmann) |
78 |
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Akbar S. Ahmed, Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World (Daniel Martin Varisco) |
80 |
| George A. Bournoutian, trans., The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete (Dennis R. Papazian) | 81 |
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George A. Bournoutian, trans., History of the Wars (1721-1738) by Abraham of Erevan (Robert Olson) |
82 |
| M. Izzi Dien, The Theory and the Practice of Market Law in Medieval Islam: A Stdy of Kitab Nisab al-Ihtisab of Umar b. Muhammad al-Sunami (fl. 7th-8th/13th-14th Century) (Everett K. Rowson) | 83 |
| Leif Manger, ed., Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts (Mark LeVine) | 84 |
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Ahmad S. Moussalli, Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy, and the Islamic State (Jan Goldberg) |
85 |
| Uri Rubin, The Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad as Viewed by the Early Muslims (Mahmood Ibrahim) | 86 |
| Merzak Allouache, Bab el-Oued (Sarra Tlili) | 87 |
| Mark Collier & Bill Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself (Ann Macy Roth) | 89 |
| Fred M. Donner, Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing (Richard W. Bulliet) | 90 |
| Sadiq Hidayat, The Myth of Creation: A Puppet Show in Three Acts (Mehdi Khorrami) | 91 |
| Intizar Husain, The Seventh Door and Other Stories (Shawkat M. Toorawa) | 92 |
| Salma Khadra Jayyusi & Roger Allen, eds., Modern Arabic Drama: An Anthology (Miajan H. Al-Ruwaili) | 93
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| Paul E. Losensky, Welcoming Fighânî: Imitation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal (Michael Beard) | 94 |
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J. W. Wright & Everett K. Rowson, eds., Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature (Miriam Cooke) |
95 |
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| Mohammed Al-Fahim, From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi (Deborah Akers) | 97 |
| Selma al-Radi The Ŕmiriyá in Radá: The History and Restoration of a Sixteenth-Century Madrasa in the Yemen (Daniel Martin Varisco) | 98 |
| Dana Bartelt, et al., Both Sides of Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Political Poster Art (Alysia Fischer) | 99 |
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Pre-Modern History |
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| Reuven Amitai-Preiss & David O. Morgan,eds., The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy (Douglas Streusand) | 100 |
| Reuven Amita-Preiss, Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281(Mahmood Ibrahim) | 101 |
| Yitzhak Baer, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain (Matt Goldish) | 102 |
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Mohammed Ennaji, Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco (Thomas K. Park) |
103 |
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James L. Gelvin, Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (Fred H. Lawson) |
104 |
| Richard G. Hovannisian, ed., The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times.The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century (Ina Baghdiantz McCabe) | 105 |
| Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Kate Lang) | 107 |
| Nabil Matar, Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery (Christine Isom-Verhaaren) | 108 |
| Margaret Meriwether, The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 (Bruce Masters) | 109 |
| Samy S. Swayd, The Druzes: An Annotated Bibliography (Nada Saab) | 110 |
| Essays on Ottoman Civilization: Archive Orientalni, Supplement 8: Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the Comité International d'Etudes Pre-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Prague, 1996 (Linda T. Darling) | 111 |
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Israel & the Arab World |
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| Alan Dowty, The Jewish State: A Century Later (Ilan Peleg) | 112 |
| John R. Gee, Unequal Conflict: The Palestinians and Israel (Curtis R. Ryan) | 113 |
| Taysir N. Nashif, Nuclear Weapons in Israel (Daniel E. Spector) | 114 |
| Michael Prior, ed., Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine (Daniel Lieberfeld) | 116 |
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John QuigleY, Flight into the Maelstrom: Soviet Immigration to Israel and Middle East Peace (Robert O. Freedman) |
117 |
| Itamar Rabinovich, The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations (Robert O. Freedman) | 118 |
| Modern Politics |
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| Ofra Bengio, Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (Raad Alkadiri) | 119 |
| Mamoun Fandy, Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent (Madawi Al-Rasheed) | 120 |
| Graham E. Fuller, Algeria: The Next Fundamentalist State? (Azzedine Layachi) | 121 |
| Gad G. Gilbar, Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political Demography and Economy (Rebecca Miles) | 122 |
| Michael M. Gunter, The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Analysis (Gareth Stansfield) | 124 |
| Michael C. Hudson, ed., The Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration (Ammar Askari) | 125 |
| Kanan Makiya, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (Sinan Antoon) | 126 |
| Julie A. Mertus, Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War (Robert J. Donia) | 127 |
| William B. Quandt, Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism (John P. Entelis) | 128 |
| Azzedine Layachi, State, Society and Democracy in Morocco: The Limits of Associative Life (Marcie J. Patton) | 129 |
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Economics |
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| Mohamed Berriane & Abdellah Laouina, eds., Le dévéloppement du Maroc septentrional, points de vues de géographes (Pascal Delisle) | 130 |
| M. Riad El-Ghonemy, Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East (W. Stephen Howard) | 131 |
| Ahmed Galal & Robert Z. Lawrence, eds., Building Bridges: An Egypt-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (Frederic C. Shorter) | 132 |
| Khalid M. Kanoo, The House of Kanoo: A Century of an Arabian Family Business (Brian Begy) | 133 |
| Paul Stevens, et al., Gulf Energy and the World (Ibrahim M. Oweiss) | 134 |
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Modern History |
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| Sibel Bozdo_an & Re_at Kasaba, eds., Rethinking Modernity and Identity in Turkey (Nükhet Sirman) | 135 |
| John Fisher, Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-1919 (Peter John Brobst) | 137 |
| Bülent Gökay, A Clash of Empires: Turkey Between Russian Bolshevism and British Imperialism, 1918-1923 (John M. Vander Lippe) | 138 |
Peter Gran, Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History (Nazih Richani) |
139 |
| Samira Haj, The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power and Ideology (Thabit A. J. Abdullah) | 140 |
| Parker T. Hart, Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership (F. Gregory Gause, III) | 141 |
| David E. Long, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Joseph A. Kechichian) | 142 |
| Kamal Salibi, The Modern History of Jordan (Joseph Massad) | 143 |
Graham Usher, Palestine in Crisis: The Struggle for Independence After Oslo (Manal Jamal) |
144 |
| P. J. Vatikiotis, The Middle East: From the End of Empire to the End of the Cold War (Joel Gordon) | 145 |
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Resources |
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Ritchie Ovendale, The Longman Companion to the Middle East since 1914 (Mahmoud Haddad) |
147 |
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Audiovisuals |
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| Architecture of Mud (Linda Boxberger | 148 |
| The Children of Shatila (Elise Salem Manganaro | 149 |
| Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948 (Zeina Azzam Seikaly) | 150 |
| Islam: Sacrifice to Allah (Carol Johnson Shedd) | 151 |
| They Carry Their Families (Roberta Ann Dunbar) | 152 |
Short Notices |
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Mustafa Darwish, Dream Makers on the Nile: A Portrait of Egyptian Cinema (Livia Alexander) |
153 |
| Ata-Malik Juvaini & J. A. Boyle, trans. & eds., Ghengis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror (Linda T. Darling) | 153 |
| Mark Whittow, The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 (Matthew S. Gordon) | 153 |
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In Memoriam |
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| Hans Gustav Guterbock (Frank Tachau) | |
| George M. Haddad (his family) | |
| Stephen S. Infantino (his family) | |
| Wilfred Cantwell Smith (S. Ferahian) | |
| Peter Sugar (Farhat Ziadeh) | |
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Recent (1998) Doctoral Degrees in Middle East Studies |
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COVER: Heavy Rains at Constantinople, People
Going to Hear the Reading of the Constitution
Illustrated London News (private collection)
