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CONTENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA JOURNAL #4 CALL FOR ARTICLESIMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA LINK LIST SOON GOING ON LINE
1. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
2. RESEARCH QUERIES--PLEASE HELP
3. NEW PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
4. WEBSITES/GROUPS ONLINE
5. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
6. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
7. MERIA BOOKS: ORDER FOR FREE
8. DISCOUNTS FOR MERIA READERS
MERIA Journal #4 still has some space for articles. It will be published in the first week of December. If you have a relevant article to send or wish to inquire, please do so as soon as possible. Write Barry Rubin at: besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il MERIA Journal #3 is now available on our webpage.
IMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA LINK LIST SOON GOING ON LINE
MERIA is preparing a link list for inclusion on its home page before the end of 1997. Although the current draft includes about 400 sites, the goal is to build a limited, selective list that is well-organized, annotated, avoids repetition, and includes high-quality sites. We hope you will find this list useful and will want to link your sites with it.
Turkish foreign policy seminar begins: We are pleased to announce that the first MERIA seminar has been launched and has generated a good discussion and the exchange of lots of news and useful sources. We are open to suggestions for other high-level, focused, closed lists involving 10-25 members to discuss current issues by exchanging conclusions, queries and materials.
MERIA is happy that several publications have reprinted its articles. But anyone wanting to do so should ask for permission, give proper credit, and provide copies to MERIA and the author.
MERIA is pleased to have been selected the Arab E-Journal Publication of the month.
1. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
November 10-12: Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa, "The Middle East at the Crossroads." Panels: Political Aspects of Radical Islamic Challenge; Socio-Economic Dilemmas; Changing Socio-Political Conditions and Survival of Regimes; Peace Process; and The Arab States and Peace Process fjar401@uvm.haifa.ac.il
February 24-25, 1998: Revised date for The Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) of Tehran international seminar "Regional Approaches in the Persian Gulf." Proposed papers must be submitted by January 24. Details: http://www.ipis.org/
March: Deadline for submitting manuscripts to the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Litterature Comparee special issue, Modern Arabic Literature: The Comparative Perspective, regarding: genre studies, literary theory, feminism, Western scholarship on Naguib Mahfouz, bibliography and the role of translation. Write: Muhammad Deeb mdeeb@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
April 4-5: "Aspects of Contemporary North Africa: Islamic Assertion, Ethnic Diversity, and the State," Binghamton University. Includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Sudan. Panels consider: Historical Dimension of Conflicts in North Africa: State, Ethnicity, and Colonial Intrusion; Islamic Reassertion, Women, State and Society; the Role of Language, Literature and the Arts; and the Impact of Exiles, Transnational Migrants and Foreigners on North African Society. See: http://maghreb.net/wriers/confer2.htm or write: ldatto@binghamton.edu
June 23-26: International Peace Research Association,
Global Political Economy Commission, Durban, South Africa. Theme: how "globalization from below" can challenge "globalization from
above." Seeking papers, workshops, and panels on: struggles by social groups, adjustments by states; capital/labor conflict; and local economic activities in the face of global shifts. Write: Osvaldo Croci ocroci@nickel.laurentian.ca or Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers hoppodor@iafrica.com by January 10, 1998.
May 17-21, 1998: Pave Peace Through Literature and Culture International Congress, Haifa, Israel. For information: Ada Aharoni ada@tx.technion.ac.il
August 16-21 1998: "Western Intervention in the Middle East," Call for Papers, workshop at The International Society for the Study of European Ideas will hold its biennial conference in the University of Haifa, Israel. Historical papers are especially encouraged, although all fields relevant to the workshop theme are welcome. Presentations 15-20 minutes. Abstracts of up to 200 words to: Prof. Eliezer Tauber, taubere@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 December 1997.
2. RESEARCH QUERIES--PLEASE HELP WITH YOUR OWN RESPONSES
Perhaps you have some additional suggestions for the queries presented below. Thanks to all those who have responded with help.
Query Number 9, David Brooks mfsx5dmb@stud.man.ac.uk is doing a dissertation on the roots and pattern of Soviet-sponsored terrorism during the Cold War with particular emphasis on the PLO.
The works of Galia Golan on Soviet policy might be helpful, in addition to several histories of the PLO, including Barry Rubin, Revolution Until Victory: The Politics and History of the PLO. While much-criticized at the time, it might be interesting to review Claire Sterling's, The Terror Network in light of recent revelations. There is probably a big literature in German of recently released East German intelligence files.
Query Number 10, Navin Raj gtmxnp@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
Why did Iraq Invade Kuwait in August 1990? What were the consequences of the invasion? A good place to start is Amatzia Baram's, "The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Decision-Making in Baghdad," in Amatzia Baram and Barry Rubin, Iraq's Road to War: Politics, Economics, and Foreign Relations. Also look at Barry Rubin, Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East, Gerd Nonneman, "The (Geo)Political Economy of Iraqi-Kuwaiti Relations," Geopolitics and International Boundaries, Vol. 1 No. 2 (Autumn 1996) pp. 178-223, and the works of Efraim Karsh.
On this query, Amatzia Baram recommends: See my article in Dan Keohane and Alex Danchev (eds), an edited book on the Gulf War (1993 or 1994, issued in Britain, I think MacMillan). An opposite veiw (the Iraqi angle) Omar Ali, Crisis in the Arabian Gulf (Praeger, 1993). A fierce (and i think interesting ) debate between me and Omar Ali in Middle East Journal book section in one of the 1996 or 1997 volumes. An MA dissertation-turned-book by a Saudi scholar, Quseibi, which came out in London and wjpse title includes "an attempt to understand." Zachari Karabell, an article in Middle East Journal 1995 (Vol. 49, No 1). Efraim Karsh: in his bio of Saddam and other works. See also Richard Schofield, The Iraq-Kuwait Dispute. And accounts by Laurie Mylroie and Elaine Sciolino.
Query Number 11, Randal Slavens rslavens@ccs.carleton.ca: A graduate student writing a thesis on "Impediments to Regional Economic Integration in the Middle East." You might start with the MERIA book on Middle East economics. Clearly, the two key starting points are political mistrust, the fact that many economies produce and consume the same things and thus there is little impetus for trade. Paul Rivlin responds: See A.Arnon and J. Weinblatt: The Poential for Trade Between Israel, the Palestinans and Jordan,
Bank of Israel Discussion Paper; Economist Intelligence Unit, Peace Economics Newsletter, Towards Free Trade in the Middle East: the Triad and Beyond; Chair. Robert Lawrence, Harvard Univ. 1995, Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the ME; Arab-Israeli Potential Trade: the Role of Import Sharing: S. Hirsh et al,
Tel Aviv Univ. A. Hammer Fund; Regional Economic Development -- A Contribution to the ME Peace Process: Trade Relations Among the Core Parties and with Key Third Parties; Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and Pinchas Sapir Center for Devlopment (Tel Aviv Univ): Regional Integration and Economic Growth; Nadav Halevi and Ephraim Kleiman, 1995. Also the bibliography on this subject at: http://www.utoronto.ca/cisecime
Response to Query Number 7: Lebanese System and Maronites, from Travis Benson
travis.benson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz. Answer by Laura Zittrain Eisenberg, Carnegie-Mellon University (condensed):
See the bibliography of my own book, My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948 (Detroit: Wayne State, 1994). I recommend an essay by Albert Hourani, "Ideologies of the Mountain and the City" in Roger Owen, ed., Essays on the Crisis in Lebanon (London: Ithaca, 1976) and a book by Kamal Salibi, A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988). Also see articles and books by Meir Zamir, Eyal Zisser, A.R. Norton, Avner Yaniv, Yair Evron and Kirsten Schulze; Matti Moosa, The Maronites in History (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986). Check with the Centre for Lebanese Studies in Great Britain (Dr. Nadim Shehadi) shehadi@sable.ox.ac.uk and the Lebanese Studies Association site http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/~khater/lsa-web.
3. NEW PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
SUNY Press has published two new books of interest. Of special note is Avraham Sela, The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order, a very important, long-awaited study of a half-century of inter-Arab politics. This study asks and answers important conceptual questions and its contents -- far transcending the title -- make it one of the best available surveys of modern Arab politics. $24.95 paperback. Also: Ilan Peleg, The Middle East Peace Process, 12 articles including Laura Z. Eisenberg and Neil Caplan, historical perspective, and Stuart Cohen on society-military relations in Israel, 312 pages, $19.95 paperback. order: orderbook@cupserv.org
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research has published Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar (editors), Israeli Society and the Challenge of Transition to Co-existence, a 142-page book based on its November 1996 symposium. It focuses on how peace process is affecting Israeli society including identity, public opinion, Palestinians in Israel, religious-secular Jewish relations, economy, civil-military relations, geography, and effect on democracy.
Silk Road, Bi-monthly journal of Western Asian affairs in all the countries along the ancient silk road connecting of Central Asia and the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia. First issue features interview with former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Pelletreau, and articles about energy resources in the Caspian Basin; Oman, Tajikistan, Kazakstan. Subscriptions $22/year to order or submit manuscripts: Eric Hooglund hooglund@aol.com
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has published:
Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints No. 365, 1 September 1997, is Mordechai Abir, "Saudi Arabia in the 1990s: Stability and Foreign Policy." order: elazar@vms.huji.ac.il
Research Institute for European Studies (RIES) has published two research reports: Think-Tanks: An Oxymoron in Greece, John Nomikos andRIES Special Report, Party Politics in Greece: PASOK and the end of the Papandreou Era. See: http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/6705
Correction: The Middle East Studies Group at Binghamton University does not publish Algerie Litterature/Action or Le Maghreb Litteraire but publicizes them through web pages.
For information on its activities, see: http://maghreb.net
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/ins/dayan.htm.
Research Institute for European Studies (RIES) has a new website: http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/6705 which now publishes RIES Monitor. For relevant new publications, see 3., above.
The Bulletin of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East is an international, non-partisan newsletter providing contemporary information on non-governmental, cooperative activities related to the Middle East. It is published by the Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East, a project of Search for Common Ground and the European Centre for Common Ground. The Bulletin seeks to provide an ongoing link among non-governmental cooperative efforts in the Middle East. It is published quarterly and distributed to organizations and individuals worldwide in hard copy and also through our website. For a sample issue: bulletin@sfcg.org
Three Egyptian websites:
President's Office http://www.presidency.gov.eg/index.html
Parliament http://www.parliament.gov.eg/indexe.htm (eds.)
Egypt State Information Service http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/
The website of the Center for Palestine Research and Studies (CPRS) is moved to http://www.cprs-palestine.org
New official Libyan site, of the Institut Jamahiriyen d'Etudes et de Documentation (IJED), http://www.worldnet.net/~ijed/
For a catalog of films on the Middle East from New York University: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/center.html
Syracuse University Press has some new books on the region:
5. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
"IPIS announcement list" provides information on upcoming events sponsored by The Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. To subscribe, write: IPIS@NEDA.NET with "Subscribe IPIS-L" as subject.
Women's International Net (WIN) magazine is a monthly international magazine about women around the world, with lots of coverage of women's issues in the Middle East. Issue #3 includes articles on women in Morocco and Turkey. To subscribe or see past issues: http://www.winmagazine.base.org or write: winmagazine@geocities.com
6. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
Binghamton University (SUNY) Arabic Program in Morocco at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane: Arabic language (beginning and advanced), North African and Islamic cultures, other courses. All senesters, See: http://oip.binghamton.edu/progbroch/morocco.html or write: oip@binghamton.edu
AMERICAN CENTER OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH (AMMAN) announces a number of fellowships, deadline February 1, 1998:
--Kress Fellowship In The Art and Archaeology of Jordan: 3-6 months for PhD candidates writing dissertation in: art history, archaeology, architectural history, and some classical studies. Need for residency at ACOR in Amman to do research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals at U.S. institutions. Maximum award is $14,000.
--United States Information Agency Fellowships: Five or more 2-6 month fellowships for pre- and post-doctoral in humanities or social sciences relating to Near Eastern Studies. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum award is $14,000.
--Near and Middle East Research and Training Program (NMERTP) Senior Research Fellowships: Two or more 4-9 month fellowships for senior post-doctoral scholars pursuing research or publication projects in social sciences, humanities, and associated disciplines relating to the Middle East. Preference will be given to scholars with limited prior experience in the Middle East. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum award is $35,600.
--Near and Middle East Research and Training Program (NMERTP) Pre-Doctoral Fellowships: Two or more 2-4 month fellowships for pre-doctoral students with little or no prior experience in the Middle East, anthropology, economics, history, international relations, journalism, and political science. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum award is $9,200.
--National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH) Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships: One or more 4-6 month fellowship for post-doctoral scholars in modern and classical languages, linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics, history, criticism, and theory of the arts. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals living in the U.S. three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Maximum award is $30,000.
--Jennifer C. Groot Fellowship: Two awards of $1,500 each to support beginners in archaeological fieldwork who have been accepted as staff members on archaeological projects with ASOR/CAP affiliation in Jordan. Open to undergraduate and graduate students. U.S. or Canadian citizenship required.
--Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship: A $1,500 award to assist a student in graduate studies in Jordan or elsewhere in archaeology, anthropology, conservation, and related areas. In the 1998-99 funding cycle this competition is open only to Jordanian citizens.
--Harrell Family Fellowship: An award of $1,500 to support a graduate student participating in an ACOR-supported or ACOR-funded archaeological project. Open to enrolled graduate students of any nationality.
NMERTP, USIA, NEH, and Kress Fellows will reside at the ACOR facility in Amman while conducting their research. For information on all these fellowships: acor@bu.edu
Order free MERIA books from our innovative publishing house, collecting articles from MERIA Journal, MERIA News, and other materials into electronic books which are updated and expanded over time. [Next planned revision: December 1997.]
To order free copies or submit proposed chapters or projects:
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A. MIDDLE EAST ECONOMICS
Prof. Eliyahu Kanovsky, "The Impact of Domestic and International Politics."
Dr. Paul Rivlin, "Leadership and the Economy in the Arab World"
B. ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS
Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "The Islamic Challenge in North Africa."
Dr. Joseph Kostiner, "State, Islam and Opposition in Saudi Arabia: The Post Desert-Storm Phase."
Dr. Eyal Zisser, "Hizballah in Lebanon: At the Crossroads"
Dr. A. Nizar Hamzeh, "Islamism in Lebanon: A Guide" (Courtesy of Middle East Quarterly)
C. CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI POLITICS
Prof. Joel Peters, "Israel Under Netanyahu: The Current Situation in Israeli Politics."
Prof. Gregory Mahler, "Israel's New Electoral System: Effects on Policy and Politics."
Prof. Laura Zittrain Eisenberg: "Israel's Lebanon Policy"
Prof. Kenneth Stein, "Egyptian-Israeli Relations, 1973-1997"
D. TURKISH POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY
Prof. Bilge Criss, "Turkish Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East."
Prof. Kemal Kirisci, "Post Cold-War Turkish Security and the Middle East."
Prof. Barry Rubin, "Notes on Turkey-Israel Relations."
Prof. Ersin Kalaycioglu, "The Logic of Contemporary Turkish Politics"
Dr. Konuralp Pamukcu, "Water-Related Cooperation Between Turkey and Israel."
E. PERSIAN GULF SECURITY ISSUES
Darius Bazargan, "Interview on Iraqi Weapons Monitoring with Terrence Taylor, UNSCOM inspector for biological weapons."
Turki al-Hamad, "Imperfect Alliances: Will the Gulf Monarchies Work Together?"
Dariush Bazargan, "Iran: Politics, The Military and Gulf Security"
F. CENTRAL ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Dr. Bulent Aras, "U.S.-Central Asian Relations: A View from Turkey."
Prof. Gareth M. Winrow, "Turkey and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia and the Transcaucasus."
8. DISCOUNTS FOR MERIA READERS
We ask magazines and publishers for discounts to MERIA readers. If you can offer such inducements, contact MERIA. Take advantage of benefits from being a MERIA reader:
A. The WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY offers MERIA readers 20 percent discount for the order of five copies or more of its publications. Mention MERIA! info@washingtoninstitute.org
B. MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY: offers MERIA readers a 20% discount on 1-year subscriptions: $30 for individuals ($7.50 off regular rate); $40 for institutions ($10 off regular rate). For addresses outside U.S., airmail delivery costs $20 more; surface mail, $5 more. Write MEQ, AM&M, PO Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044-8897, USA; e-mail: dforio@allenpress.com, or call 1-800-627-0629.
C. Lawrence Joffe, KEESINGS GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, 10% discount on the 45 pound sterling price. Write Customer Services Manager, Liz Godden:
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D. Israeli Perspectives, edited by Neill Lochery, 10% discount to MERIA readers on $60 annual subscription rate. Includes news plus an academic study, chronology, press sumarries. For details and sample copy: neilllochery@msn.com
E. Neil Lochery, The Israeli Labour Party in the Shadow of the Likud, Ithaca Press, 10 percent discount on the price of 35 pounds sterling. To order quote code 10046. Add $3.50 for postage. Write: Garnet Publishers, 8 Southern Ct, South Street, Reading, Berkshire rg1 4qs England.
IMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA JOURNAL #4 LAST CALL FOR ARTICLES
Adam Frey, "The Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group: An Operational Review," Research Notes Number 3, and Hilary Mann, "Open Admissions: U.S. Policy Toward Students from Terrorism-Supporting Countries in the Middle East," Policy Focus No. 34. Order: info@washingtoninstitute.org and See 8.A. below on discounts.
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