MESA Bulletin - Select Articles from Recent Issues

Select Articles
from Recent Issues of the MESA Bulletin

Re-edited for WWW distribution. Original texts available in indicated issues of the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. Copyright by the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc.

Perspectives on & from Middle East Studies

Scholarship in the Shadow of Empire by Laurie A. Brand (2004 Presidential Address)
Scholarship, Policy, Debate and Conflict: Why We Study the Middle East and Why It Matters by Lisa Anderson (2003 Presidential Address)
Middle East Studies After September 11 by Joel Beinin (2002 Presidential Address)
A Time to Reap by Barbara Freyer Stowasser (1999 Presidential Address)
The Changing Face of Medieval Near Eastern Studies: Challenges and Strategies by Josef W. Meri
Lessons from the Eastern Shore by Philip S. Khoury (1998 Presidential Address)
Swimming Against the Tide: Personal Passions and Academic Fashions by Leila Fawaz (1997 Presidential Address)
Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust? by Abdallah Laroui (1996 Fulbright Lecture)
The Inclusion Imperative by Farhad Kazemi (1996 Presidential Address)
Promoting Academic Freedom: Risks and Responsibilities by Ann Mosley Lesch (1995 Presidential Address)
Is there a Future for Middle East Studies? by Rashid Khalidi (1994 Presidential Address)
The End of Civilization Is Not So Bad by John O. Voll (1993 Presidential Address)
Arab Americans: Those Who Followed Columbus by Barbara C. Aswad (1992 Presidential Address)
The DANTES Survey of Courses in Contemporary Middle East Studies by Lori Anne Salem
Introducing Students to Middle East Political Activists Through the World Wide Web: One Political Scientist’s Approach by Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross

Guides for/to Study

Middle East and North Africa Human Rights Activism in Cyberspace by Nancy Gallagher
The Gulf/2000 Project by Gary Sick
Iranians on the Internet by Haleh Nazeri
Historical Research and Resources in Damascus by Steve Tamari and Leila Hudson
Middle East Studies On-Line by Jon Anderson
Erasing the Past: Destruction of Libraries & Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Andras Riedlmayer
Turks in Germany: Overview of the Literature by Jenny B. White
Arabic on the Macintosh by A. Kevin Reinhart
Arabic Study Abroad in the Middle East by Barbara R. von Schlegell & John L. Hayes
PROTA: Project for the Translation of Arabic by Roger Allen
Review of The Encyclopedia Iranica by Stephen F. Dale

Recordings of Middle Eastern Music

Made in America: Historical and Contemporary Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States by Anne K. Rasmussen (December 1997)
Listening to Umm Khultum by Virginia Danielson (December 1996)
Recent Recordings of Traditional Music from the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia by Kay Hardy Campbell (July 1966)
Introduction to Sufi Music and Ritual in Turkey by Irene Markoff (December 1995)
Musics of Algeria: Selected Recordings by Dwight Reynolds (July 1995)
New Recordings of Turkish Classical Music by Walter Feldman (December 1994)
Traditional Iranian Dastgah Music by Margaret Caton (July 1994)
The Qur’an Recited by Mahmoud Ayoub (December 1993)
Solo Instrumental Improvisation in Arab Music by Scott Marcus (July 1993)

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