Volume 18, Number 3, June, 1998
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ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY, May 1998, (Vol.30, No.2)
ALJADID, Fall 1997,(Vol.3, No.20)
ALJADID, Winter 1998,(Vol.4, No.22)
THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Jan. 1998, (No. 555)
ARAB STUDIES QUARTERLY, Winter 1998, (Vol. 20, No.1)
ARMED FORCES AND SOCIETY, Winter 1997, (Vol.24, No.2)
ARABIES, Mai 1998
BOUNDARY & TERRITORY BRIEFING, Vol. 1, No.7
CENTRAL ASIAN SURVEY, December 1997, (Vol.16, No.4)
CIVIL SOCIETY, March 1998, (Vol.7, No.75)
CIVIL SOCIETY, April 1998, (Vol.7, No.76)
DIPLOMACY AND STATECRAFT, March 1998, (Vol.9, No.1)
ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES, May 1998, (Vol.21, No.3)
ETUDES NORMANDES, No.1, 1998
GEOPOLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES, Autumn 1997, (Vol.2, No.2)
DER ISLAM, Vol.74, 1997
ISLAM AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS, March 1998, (Vol.9, No.1)
THE ISLAMIC QUARTERLY, 2nd Quarter 1997, (Vol.61, No.2)
ISLAMIC STUDIES, Winter 1997, (Vol.36, No.4)
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, May 25, 1998, (Vol.9, No.2)
JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, April 1998, (Vol.9, No.2)
JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES, Jan.1998, (Vol.9, No.1)
JOURNAL OF MUSLIM MINORITY AFFAIRS, April 1998, (Vol.18, No.1)
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, April 1998, (Vol.8, No.1)
THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES, Spring 1998, (Vol.23, No.1)
JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, Spring 1998, (Vol.21,No.3)
THE JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC STUDIES, Dec. 1997, (Vol.20, No.4)
THE LEBANON REPORT, Spring 1998, (No.1)
LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT, Autumn 1997, (Vol.6, No.2)
MARS, No.8, 1997
MEDITERRANEAN QUARTERLY, Winter 1998, (Vol.9, No.1)
THE MIDDLE EAST, June 1998
THE MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, Spring 1998, (Vol.52, No.2)
MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY, June 1998, (Vol. 5, No.2)
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, April 1998, (Vol.34, No.2)
MIDSTREAM, Feb/March 1998, (Vol.44, No.2)
MILITARY HISTORY, April 1998
MONDE ARABE - MAGHREB MACHREK, Jan.-Mars 1998, (No. 159)
THE MUSLIM WORLD, January 1998, (Vol.88, No.1)
THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Spring 1998, (No.51)
NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC POLITICS, Autumn 1997, (Vol.3, No.3)
THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Spring 1998, (No.51)
NOGA, Spring 1998, (No.33)
ORBIS, Spring 1998, (Vol.42, No.2)
POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, Winter 97-98, (Vol.112, No.4)
PS:POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS, June 1998, (Vol.31, No.2)
THE RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Spring 1998, (Vol.29, No.1)
RIVE, No. 4, 1997
SURVIVAL, Spring 1998, (Vol.40, No.1)
URBAN STUDIES, April 1998, (Vol.35, No.4)
WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, Spring 1998, (Vol.15, No.1)
ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY, May 1998,(Vol.30, No.2)
Metin Heper and M. Selcuk Sancar, "Is Legal-Rational Bureaucracy a Prerequisite for a Rational-Productive Bureaucracy? The Case of Turkey" [143-166]
Mona Fayad, "Male Writers Womanize the Nation" [4-5]
Charbel Dagher, "The Superficiality of Lebanon's Post-War Cultural Revival" [14-15]
Elie Chalala, "Silence of Arab Intellectuals Loms Over Algeria's Killing Fields" [18-19]
Judith Gabriel, "Al-Nakba Dark Ruins of the Tribal Poets: Tragedy Expressed Via Literary Forms Infuses Half Century of Palestinian Poetry" [4-6]
Fatme Sharafeddine Hassan, "Hannah Minah - The Man, the Artist, the Activist" [8-9]
Stephen Sheehi, "Professor Edward Said Speaks on Democracy in the Arab World, Identity, Western Intellectuals and Zionism, and Lack of Arab Liberationist Thought" [Interview] [20-21]
[[[Special Issue on "Israel in Transition"]]]
[[[Guest Editor: Gabriel Ben-Dor]]]
Sammy Smooha, "The Implications of the Transition to Peace for Israeli Society"[26-46]
Herbert C. Kelman, "Israel in Transtion from Zionism to Post-Zionism" [46-62]
Efraim Inbar, "Israel National Security, 1973-96" [62-82]
Shlomo Gazit, "Israel and the Palestinians: Fifty Years of Wars and Turning Points" [82-97]
Mark Tessler and Audra K. Grant, "Israel's Arab Citizens: The Continuing Struggle" [97-114]
Ashok Swain, "A New Challenge: Water Scarcity in the Arab World" [1-12]
Jane Power, "'Real Unions': Arab Organized Labor in British Palestine" [13-28]
Stephen Zunes,"The American Peace Movement and the Middle East" [29-52]
Mohja Kahf, "Huda Sha'rawi's Mudhakkirati: The Memoirs of the First Lady of Arab Modernity" [53-82]
Rebecca Cann and Constantine Danopoulos, "The Military and Politics in a Theocratic State: Iran as Case Study" [269-289]
Selim Jahel, "Arabie Saoudite: Le Majlis Al-Choura, un Parlement Selon la Charia" [20-34]
Samir Sobh, "Algerie: Les Implications de la Liberalisation Economique"[34-37]
Mathilde Chevre, "Egypte: Le Nil, une Frontiere entre deux Caire?" [44-52]
David Newman, "Boundaries in Flux: The 'Green Line' Boundary Between Israel and the West Bank - Past, Present and Future" [1-55]
Shahram Akbardazeh, "The Political Shape of Central Asia" [517-543]
Houman A. Sadri, "Integration in Central Asia: From Theory to Policy" [573-587]
Habibollah A. Shirazi, "Political Forces and their Structures in Tajikistan" [611-623]
A Round-Up of Civil Society News in the Arab World Francis Ghiles Speaks out on the Situation In Algeria Mona Makram Ebeid on the Challenges faced by Lebanese Women
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, "Women, Press Freedom and Democracy" [3-6]
Anoush Eshteshami, "Elections; A Panacea For MENA Ills?" [10-13]
Sonja Hegasy, "Civil Society and Monarchy: The Case of Morocco" [14-17]
Nigel Ashton, "Britain and the Kuwaiti Crisis, 1961" [163-182]
[[[Special Issue: Aspects of Ethnic Division in Contemporary Israel]]]
[[[Guest Editor: Martin Bulmer]]]
Martin Bulmer, "Introduction: Conceptualizing Fractured Societies - the Case of Israel" [383-408]
Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, "Citizenship and Stratification in an Ethnic Democracy" [408-428]
As'ad Ghanem, "State and Minority in Israel: The Case of the Ethnic State and the Predicament of its Minority" [428-449]
Deborah S. Bernstein, "Strategies of Equalization, a Neglected Aspect of the Split Labour Market of Mandatory Palestine" [449-476]
Oren Yiftachel and Michaly D. Segal, "Jews and Druze in Israel: State Control and Ethnic Resistance" [476-507]
B.W.Wolkinson and E.F.Montemayor, "Inter-ethnic Coexistence in Israeli Plants: the Job Experiences and Attitudes of Arab and Jewish Workers" [529-545]
Gila Menahem, "Arab Citizens in an Israeli City: Action and Discourse in Public Programs" [545-558]
Zeev Rosenhek, "New Developments in the Sociology of Palestinian Citizens of Israel: an Analytical Review" [558-578]
Fabienne Melliani et Foued Laroussi, "Comportements Langagiers des 'Maghrebins-Francos' a Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray: la Construction d'une Identite Mixte" [72-84]
Salih Akin, "Pratiques Langagieres et Questions Identitaires d'une Communaute Exilee: le Cas des Kurds en Normandie" [84-95]
David Newman, "Creating the Fences of Territorial Separation: The Discourses of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resolution" [1-36]
Andreas Gorke, "Die fruhislamische Geschichtsuberlieferung zu Hudaibiya"[193-228]
Patricia Crone, "A Note on Muqatil b.Hayyan and Muqatil b. Sulayman" [238-250]
James E. Lindsay, "Caliphal and Moral Exemplar? Ali Ibn Asakir's Portrait of Yazid b. Muawiya" [250-279]
Stefan Leder, "Charismatic Scripturalism - The Hanbali Maqdisis of Damascus [279-306]
Florian Sobieroj, "Eine Neue Quelle fur die Biographie Ibn Hafif's - Die Vita Ibn Hafif's in Ibn Asakir's Ta'rih Dimasq" [306-336]
Mamoun Fandy, "Safar al-Hawali:Saudi Islamist or Saudi Nationalist?" [5-23]
Jamal Malik, "Islamic Mission and Call: the Case of the International Islamic University, Islamabad" [31-47]
Kate Zebiri, "Muslim Anti-Secularist Discourse in the Context of Muslim-Christian Relations" [47-65]
Patricia Mihaly Nabti, "Contractual Prayer of Christians and Muslims in Lebanon" [65-83]
Patricia Kelly, "Muslim Canadians: Immigration Policy and Community Development in the 1991 Census" [83-103]
Gary Bunt, "Decision-Making Concerns in British Islamic Environments" [103-115]
Badmas 'Lanre Yusuf, "The History of Fizilalil-Qur'an" [86-109]
Radwan S. Mahadin, "Patterns of Reinterpretation of Word Formation of Arabized Words" [109-130]
Declan Patrick O'Sullivan, "Al-Islam: An Alternative Approach to the Universal Protection of Human Rights" [130-154]
Shams E. Inatir, "Can Islamic Philosophy Accommodate the Islamic Concept of History" [154-172]
Valeria Fiorani Piacenti, "Islamic Studies in Italy" [589-613]
Abdul Baasir Bin Mohamad, "Nervous Shock: A Study According to Islamic Law" [633-643]
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, "Islamic Unity - The Ideal and Obstacles in the Way of its Realization" [657-663]
Mahatir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia, "Islam: the Misunderstood Religion" [Document][691-709]
The Looming Invasion of Ein Karem [12-16]
Drugs for Cows - Former Marijuana Farmers Await Salvation [24-26]
Bereket Habte Selassie, "Field Report: Creating a Constitution for Eritrea" [164-192]
Rodney Wilson, "The Contribution of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr to Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought" [46-60]
[[[Special Issue on the Kurdish Question]]]
M. Hakan Yavuz, "A Preamble to the Kurdish Question: The Politics of Kurdish Identity"[9-19]
Hanna Yousif Freij, "Alliance Patterns of a Secessionist Movement: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iraq" [19-39]
Martin van Bruinessen, "Shifting National and Ethnic Identities: The Kurds in Turkey and the European Diaspora" [39-53]
Amir Hassanpour, "Satellite Footprints as National Borders: MED-TV and the Extraterritoriality of State Sovereignty" [53-73]
Umit Cizre Sakallioglu, "Kurdish Nationalism from an Islamist Perspective: The Discourses of Turkish Islamist Writers" [73-91]
H. Ayla Kilic, "Democratization, Human Rights and Ethnic Policies in Turkey" [91-111]
Burhanettin Duran, "Approaching the Kurdish Question via Adil Duzen: An Islamist Formula of the Welfare Party for Ethnic Coexistence" [111-129]
Henri J. Barkey, "The People's Democracy Party (HADEP): The Travails of a Legal Kurdish Party in Turkey" [129-139]
Paul J. White, "Economic Marginalization of Turkey's Kurds: The Failed Promise of Modernization and Reform" [139-159]
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, "Arabic, the Arab Middle East, and the Definition of Muslim Identity in Twentieth Century India" [59-83]
Gawdat Bahgat, "Iraq After Saddam- What Lies Ahead?" [37-51]
Michael M. Gunter, "The Silent Coup: The Secularist-Islamist Struggle in Turkey" [1-13]
Steve A. Yetiv, "The Evolution of U.S.-Russian Rivalry and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf" [13-31]
Matthew Gray, "Electoral Politics and the 1997 Elections in Yemen" [31-48]
David Rodman, "War Initiation: The Case of Israel" [1-18]
Interview with Simon Karam [37-43]
Raphael E. Perl, "Terrorism, the Media, and the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives, Trends, and Options for Policy Makers" [93-103]
Abdelahad Sebti, "Islam et Saintete au Maroc" [Interview] [19-31] Rachida Chih, "Les Confreres Soufies dans l'Egypte Contemporaine" [31-39]
Jean-Louis Triaud, "Islam et Confreries en Afrique Subsaharienne" [39-51]
Gilles Veinstein, "Trajectoires du Soufisme dans l'Empire Ottoman" [51-59]
Alexandre Popovic, "Les Voies d'Allah dans les Balkans" [59-69]
Igor Maslov, "Russia and NATO: A Critical Period" [1-16]
Ivan Eland, "Enlargement or Largesse? NATO Expansion Will Be More Expensive Than Clinton Admits" [16-37]
Ted Galen Carpenter, "Time Bomb For an Expanded NATO: Hungary and Its Neighbors" [37-54]
George Kenney, "U.S. Policy Snarls in Bosnia" [54-69]
David S. Sorenson, "National Security and Political Succession in Syria" [69-92]
Pinar Akcal, "Islam and Ethnicity in Central Asia: The Case of the Islamic Renaissance Party" [126-150]
Peace Process Runs Aground [4-8]
Far From Utopia [8-11]
Winds of Change [11-14]
The Algerian Agenda [14-17]
First They Arrested the Poets [17-19]
Special Report: Lebanon [25-38]
Special Report: Construction [38-44]
R.K. Ramazani, "The Shifting Premise of Iran's Foreign Policy: Towards a Democratic Peace?" [177-188]
Alain Gresh, "Turkish-Israeli-Syrian Relations and Their Impact on the Middle East" [188-204]
R. Hrair Dekmejian, "Saudi-Arabia's Consultative Council" [204-219]
Eberhard Kienle, "More Than a Response To Islamism: The Political Deliberalization of Egypt in the 1990's" [219-236]
Steven Barraclough, "Al-Azhar: Between the Government and the Islamists" [251-277]
Anthony E. Mitchell, "Policy Brief: Protecting American Soldiers in the Persian Gulf " [3-11]
Ephraim Kleiman, "Is There a Secret Arab-Israeli Trade?" [11-19]
Amikam Nachmani, "The Remarkable Turkish-Israeli Tie" [19-31]
Koenraad Elst, "The Rushdie Rules" [31-43]
Bernard Lewis, "Muslim Anti-Semitism" [43-51]
David Cook, "Muslim Fears of the Year 2000" [51-53]
Patrick Clawson et al., "Next Steps with Iran: A Debate" [63-79]
Abdullah Ocalan, "We Are Fighting Turks Everywhere" [Interview] [79-86]
Abbas Kelidar, "P.J. Vatikiotis: An Appreciation" [1-9]
Mehrdad Kia, "Persian Nationalism and the Campaign for Language Purification" [9-37]
Kamran M. Dadhhah, "Ahmad Kasravi on Economics" [37-60]
Syed Tanvir Wasti, "Muhammad Inshaullah and the Hijaz Railway" [60-73]
Aysegul Sever, "The Compliant Ally? Turkey and the West in the Middle East, 1954-58" [73-91]
Matthew Gray, "Economic Reform, Privatization and Tourism in Egypt" [91-113]
Alice Moore-Harell, "Slave Trade in the Sudan in the Nineteenth Century and its Suppression in the Years 1877-80" [113-129]
John Fisher, "Syria and Mesopotamia in British Middle Eastern Policy in 1919" [129-171]
Raphael Israeli, "What is Saddam Up To?" [5-7]
Bat Ye'or, "Islam: History and Taboo" [7-8]
Rene Wadlow and David Littman, "UN Special Rapporteur Censured on 'Islamist and Arab Antisemitism'" [8-13]
David M. Castlewitz, "Perspectives: Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legions in the Streets of Jerusalem" [16-20]
Henry Laurens, "Plan de Partage de la Palestine: Le Vote de la France [3-12]
Henry Laurens, "La Vie Politique Palestinienne avant 1948: Localisme ou Panarabisme?" [12-28]
Nadine Picaudou, "La Bourgeoisie d'Affaires Palestinienne: Trajectoires en Diaspora" [28-39]
Alain Dieckhoff, "Israel: Dualite Politique et Pluralisme Communautaire" [39-48]
Richard Jacquemond, "Entre Literature et Politique: l'Union des Ecrivains Egyptiens" [48-61]
Ayse Kadioglu, "Republican Epistemology and Islamic Discourses in Turkey in the 1990's" [1-22]
Abdollah Vakily, "In Search of 'Revolutionary Islam': The Case of Taleqani and Mojahedin" [22-47]
J. Harris Proctor, "David Roberts and the Ideology of Imperialism" [47-67]
Diane D'Souza, "In the Presence of the Martyrs: The 'Alam in Popular Shi'i Piety" [67-81]
Nabil Matar, "Alexander Ross and the First English Translation of the Qur'an" [81-93]
C.J. Campbell, "Running Out of Gas"[47-56]
Mark N. Katz, "The Khatemi Factor"[85-91]
Hanna Yousif Freij, "Tribal Identity and Alliance Behavior Among Factions of the Kurdish National Movement in Iraq" [86-101]
The Status of Palestinian Women - A Report to the UN [42-48]
[[[in Hebrew]]]
Emanuel Sivan, "The Holy War Tradition in Islam" [171-195]
Jerome Slater, "Opinion: Netanyahu, a Palestinian State, and Israeli Security Reassessed" [675-691]
Herbert C. Kelman, "Interactive Problem Solving: An Approach to Conflict Resolution and its Application in the Middle East" [190-199]
Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal, "The Effect of the Arab Boycott on Israel: The Automobile Market" [193-215]
Nathalie Galesnie, "History, Memory and the Present" [Interview with Pierre Vidal-Naquet] [4-12]
Dimitrie Nikolaidis, "The Mediterranean of Suffering Memories" [12-19]
Benjamin Stora, "France's Colonial Past: Amnesia and Intervention" [19-24]
Hassan Remaoun, "When Forefathers Become Ferocious..."[24-28]
Jade Tabet, "The Buried Souls of Beirut" [28-34]
Franco Rizzi, "Middle East: The Underlying Process for Peace"[34-36]
Claude Klein, "Israel: Portrait of a Splintered Society" [36-38]
Paul Balta, "Libya: A Shroud of Silence" [51-56]
Gary Sick, "Rethinking Dual Containment" [5-33]
Patrick Clawson, "The Continuing Logic of Dual Containment" [33-48]
Baruch A. Kipnis, "Technology and Industrial Policy for a Metropolis at the Threshold of the Global Economy: The Case of Haifa, Israel" [649-663]
Scott A. Bollens, "Urban Planning Amidst Ethnic Conflict: Jerusalem and Johannesburg" [729-751]
John Tirman, "Improving Turkey's Bad Neighborhood: Pressing Ankara for Rights and Democracy" [60-68]