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Issue 1/January 1999
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Issue 1/January 1999
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
6. AUTHOR'S ALERTS (writers report on their books & articles)
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
IMPORTANT NEWS:
THIRD YEAR, 6,500 READERS
MERIA now begins its third year of publication. Over the last 24 months, we have grown from 700 readers to reach about 6,500 copies an issue (over 5,000 direct subscribers). We are very pleased with this progress. We still, however, are avidly seeking more information and articles for publication. MERIA is the best way to reach a worldwide audience of Middle East experts, interested officials and journalists, and students. Please take advantage of our free services. MERIA Journal Vol. 3 No. 1 will be published in March 1999 and we still are interested in receiving submissions for articles.
WEBSITES ON WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST: We have a special section on this topic in section 2, below
Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons by J. Albert, M. Bernhardsson, and R. Kenna, eds., 498 pp., 16 color illustrations, paperback. $35.00. To order: http://www.yale.edu/forestry/publications.
To Baghdad and Back by Mordechai Ben-Porat. Hardcover, 367 pages. Story of emigration of 130,000 jews from Iraq to Israel, 1949-1952 by one of its organizers. Order: Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center site: http://www.babylonjewry.org.il/baghdad.htm or babylon@babylonjewry.org.il.
State, Society and Democracy in Morocco: The Limits of Associative Life by Azzedine Layachi. 113 pages, Paper, $16.95. See: http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/ccas/layachi.
IPCRI's Education for Peace Project research on Israeli-Palestinian Youth Encounter Workshops. among high school students: Peace@netvision.net.il.
A. Sites on Women in the Middle East:
Women's International Net Magazine, monthly magazine on women
around the world. Recent issues include articles on Iran, Jordan,
Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia. See:
winmagazine@yahoo.com or http://welcome.to/winmagazine.
"Hope Betrayed: Women of Iran," Organization for Human Rights & Fundamental Freedoms for Iran: http://www.iranffo.org.
Avaye Zan: Iranian Women's Voice magazine has some articles at: http://www.tvs.se.
Kurdistan Women Union, KDP in Iraq: http://www.kdp.pp.se. Association for Middle East Women's Studies: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/~gallaghe/amews.html.
Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) is pleased to inform you that "Sout Al Nisa'" (The Voice of Women) is now on the Internet at: http://www.pal-watc.org/voice-arb.html in Arabic and http://www.pal-watc.org/voice_00.html in English.
Bat Shalom feminist peace group of Israeli women: http://www.batshalom.org.
Jewish Women's Archive: http://www.jwa.org.
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal: http://www.utoronto.ca.
Jordanian National Committee for Women: http://www.jordanview.net.
Official web site Queen Noor of Jordan: http://www.go.com.jo with links to national women's groups.
B. Gulf-related sites:
L'Echo, the newsletter of Commedia LLC Dubai, deals with
internet issues for the region: http://www.com-media.net.
Guide to Middle East online resources by the Iranian newspaper Ettela'at: http://www.ettelaat.com/HTMLpages/Iranlinks.html.
Peter Jones,"Iran's Threat Perceptions and Arms Control Policies," The Nonproliferation Review: http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/index.htm.
SIPRI's Factsheet, "Iraq: The UNSCOM experience": http://www.sipri.se/pubs/Factsheet/unscom.html.
Collection of news reports on the Iraq Crisis: http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Iraq_U_S_/.
U.S. bombing of Iraq: http://www.tisd.net/~jratliff/desertfox.htm.
"Iraq's Reconstitution of it Nuclear Weapons Program." by David Albright and Khidhir Hamza: http://www.isis-online.org.
The Status of Children and Women in Iraq: A Situation Report September 1995: http://salam.org/unicef.html.
Official texts and background to the Crisis with Iraq from U.S. government: http://www.usia.gov/regional/nea/iraq/iraq.htm.
Listing of sites devoted to Iraq:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Political_Issues/Iraq_C
risis/.
C. Maghreb-related sites:
Leading Tunisian intellectuals have launched the Council for
Liberties: btayeb@sprint.ca.
Tunisian Government: http://www.ministeres.tn/.
Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique (RCD), ruling party of Tunisia: http://www.rcd.tn/.
UN Algeria Report of August 1998: http://www.un.org/NewLinks/dpi2007/contents.htm.
D. Government, Organizations, Research
Egyptian Organization for Human Rights:
http://www.eohr.org.eg/.
Middle East Abrahamic Forum, to foster dialogue between religious persons of different faiths in the region: Yehuda Stolov, msyuda@mscc.huji.ac.il.
The Lebanese Armed Forces: http://www.leb_army.gov.lb/.
The Library of Congress has a site for research help by state.
Jordan: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jotoc.html. See: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/.
MESNET by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9361/mes.html.
MELCOM, Middle East librarians group: http://www.ex.ac.uk/MELCOM/ or Paul Auchterlonie: J.P.C.Auchterlonie@exeter.ac.uk.
Cornell University links:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/universi.htm.
Petra News Agency: http://accessme.com/Petra/.
E. Turkey
Turkish Embassy, Washington: http://www.turkey.org/turkey/.
"A Structural Reinterpretation of Power in the Middle East: Explanations and Implications of the Evolving Military Relationship between Turkey and Israel", MA thesis, University of Manitoba: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umsasley.
F. Israel
Channel Two Television Hebrew news site:
http://www.israelnews2.co.il/.
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, enhanced site: http://www.mfa.gov.il.
On Israeli elections:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Israel/Government/Politics/Elections/.
G. Palestinians
Our Voice, writings by Birzeit University staff and students:
http://www.birzeit.edu/ourvoice/.
Birzeit University's Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites: http://www.birzeit.edu/links/
A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/.
Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute updated site, including a summary of "Development under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy in Transition ": http://www.palecon.org.
H. Other
Shifting Dynamics: Media in the Arab World, a summary of a
panel at Georgetown U Center for Contemporary Arab Studies:
http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/ccas/media.
Official texts on President Clinton's trip to the Middle East: http://www.usis-israel.org.il/publish/president/index.html.
SIPRI report on regional security regime: pdf format version: http://www.sipri.se/projects/mideast/MEreport.pdf.
Role Profiles of the Middle East 1997 on regional leaders: http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/meclass/aipol/mail/profiles97/.
Southern Lebanon:
http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Israel___Lebanon_
Conflict/
Adel Darwish, a distinguished journalist, has his site on news and analysis: http://www.mideastnews.com.
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
Women's International Net Magazine, monthly magazine on women around the world. Recent issues include articles on Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia. Write: winmagazine@yahoo.com.
U.S. Information Agency has a new US-IRAQPOLICY mailing list on U.S. government statements on Iraq issues. To subscribe: send message Subscribe US-Iraqpolicy to: LISTSERV@INFO.USIA.GOV.
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
The Social Science Research Council Program on the Near and Middle East invites applications for a dissertation workshop to be held in summer 1999. Deadline: March 15, 1999. Write: Peter Szanton, Program Coordinator: szanton@ssrc.org.
Politics Network of the Social Science History Association is calling for papers and panel proposals (including book sessions and round tables) for the November meeting in Fort Worth, Texas. Deadline: February 1, 1999. See: http://www.ipums.umn.edu/~ssha or write: William G. Shade at: wgs0@Lehigh.edu.
Ben Gurion University and the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy are offering two fellowships for Phd students of $3000 each and five scholarships for MA students of $1500 each aimed at encouraging research in the fields of history and diplomacy of the Middle East. Deadline: February 15, 1999. See: http://www.bgu.ac.il/chcenter/scholarships.htm.
Melcom International, The European Association of Middle East Librarians calls for papers for their Conference in Liege, France, May 17-19 May 1999. Send proposed titles of papers (English or French) or requests for more information to Andreas Drechsler by February 28, 1999: andreas.drechsler@unibib.uni-bamberg.de.
Applications in the form of a detailed cv and proposed study program are now being accepted for Scholars-in-Residence at the Middle East Institute. Up to one year in duration: Ambassador Roscoe S. Suddarth, President, Middle East Institute, 1761 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
More on water: Professor Mordechai Shechter, U Haifa shechter@econ.haifa.ac.il adds in response to bibliography on water issues in the Middle East: Special issue of the journal "Resource and Energy Economics," Vol. 16 No. 4, November 1994, titles "Sharing water resources in the Middle East: Economic perspectives", of which I was a Guest Editor. There are papers by D. Yaron, P. Berck and J. Lipow, G. Fishelson, A. Dinar and A. Wolf, R. Howitt, J. Moore, and N. Zeitouni, N. Becker and myself (Zeitouni, N., Becker, N. & Shechter, M., 1994. "Two Models of Water Market Mechanisms with an Illustrative Application to the Middle East." (pp.303-330). Prof. Harvey Lithwick has just written a paper, "Evaluating Water Balances in Israel," Negev Center for Regional Development: ncrd@river.bgu.ac.il.
Prof. P. J. Sullivan at American University in Cairo pjcsull@acs.auc.eun.eg seeks data sources and journal articles etc. on financial flows (aid, trade, investment, remittances, trade financing, etc) among the following: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan-between 1980 and 1997. Suggestions for sources?
Response: Prof. Shlomo Sitton recommended: The Economist Intelligence Unit (a division of the Economist magazine) publishes both a quarterly report and annual survey on those countries. Both are very thorough, highly readable and quite expensive but are in some libraries. The IMF publishes International Financial Statistics. This has both monthly reports and annual surveys.
David Brooks, fulcher55@hotmail.com, seeks suggestions on specialists and sources on contemporary French and British Middle East policies, especially on how their historic roles affect their current activities.
Lalita Panicker lollyp@rocketmail.com seeks information on the role of the media in the West Asian peace process.
Yoav Peled poli1@spirit.tau.ac.il is seeking writers for a book on Shas as a political party, social movement, cultural phenomenon, etc.
Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader by Ruth Roded, ed. Gathers primary Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other sources, from the early Islamic period to today, covering various aspects of women's experience--legal, domestic, political, religious and cultural. The readings are accompanied by introductions that explain the background of each source and discuss some questions raised. Bibliographies direct readers to additional material. 288 pps. HB 39.50 pounds sterling PB 15.95 To order: I.B. Tauris mail@ibtauris.com. Distributed in US by St. Martin's Press $59.50 PB $25.
"Zwischen globaler Hegemonie und regionaler Begrenzung. Die amerikanische Politik im arabisch-israelischen Konflikt 1991-1996" by Dr. Markus Kaim. ("Between global hegemony and regional constraints. The US policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict 1991 - 1996"), Nomos Publishers, Baden-Baden, DM 89. A revised edition of the author's Ph.D. thesis, Bonn University in April 1998. For more information, contact author: s8kama@pluto.rz.uni-jena.de.
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
January 21. Washington, D.C.: The Middle East Institute, "Turkey and Ataturk--prospects for the 21st century": http://www2.ari.net/mei/calender.html.
January 21. London, England: Meeting of MELCOM (U.K.), the Middle East librarians association: Peter Colvin: pc7@soas.ac.uk.
January 24. Jerusalem, Israel: Truman Center, Hebrew U, Elkhan Guluoglu Mekhtiev, "The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Questions of Regional Stability.": mstruman@mscc.huji.ac.il
January 25-27. Ramat Gan, Israel: The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University: "The Changing Structure of Euro-Atlantic Security and the Middle East": Elisheva Brown: browne@ashur.biu.ac.il.
January 26. London, England: Middle East Center, St Antony's, Oxford U: Seminar on "The Real Story Behind Libya and Lockerbie" by Alan George: call: 01865-284 780.
January 28. Jerusalem, Israel: Truman Center, Hebrew U, Ekavi Anthanassopoulou, "American-Turkish Relations in a Middle Eastern Context": mstruman@mscc.huji.ac.il
January 29. Washington, D.C.: Middle East Institute, "U.S. Congress and Iran--20 years after the Revolution": http://www2.ari.net/mei/calender.html.
February 8. London, England: SOAS Water Issues Seminar, "Water And the Middle East Peace Process" with Ronald Manley of Water Resource Associates Ltd: Tony Allan ta1@soas.ac.uk.
February 11. Washington, D.C.: Middle East Institute, "The Iranian Revolution 20 years Later--retrospect and prospects": http://www2.ari.net/mei/calender.html.
February 22. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Annual Distinguished Lecture Patrick Gaffney, author of The Prophet's Pulpit on "Speaking of Power: The Ambiguous Authority of Islamic Clerics": ccasinfo@gunet.georgetown.edu.
February 22-23. Tehran, Iran: Ninth International conference of The Center for Persian Gulf and Middle East Studies Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) on: "The Persian Gulf: Present Realities and Future Perspectives": Ipis@www.dci.co.ir.
March 6-7. Istanbul, Turkey: The first meeting of an International Commission for Gulf Security: Majid Tehranian at: majid@hawaii.edu.
March 14. Jerusalem, Israel: Symposium entitled "Solar Villages for the Middle East" sponsored by the Palestinian Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs, Friends of the Earth Middle East and the Palestinian Hydrology Group with the support of UNESCO's World Solar Commission: Friends of the Earth Middle East at FoE@ecopeace.net or see: http://www.ecopeace.net.
March 15. London, England: SOAS Water Issues Seminar on "Safe Yield and Sustainability of Groundwater Resources and Quality In Northeastern Jordan" with Jane Dottridge of KOMEX: Tony Allan at: ta1@soas.ac.uk.
April 7-8. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Annual Symposium: "The Arts in Arab Society: Culture in a Transnational Era "Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University.
June 2-6. Paris, France: Institut du Monde Arabe, Arabic Book Fair. Exhibitors' registration deadline: 28 February 1999: dsiahmed@imarabe.org.
June 3-5. Fez, Morocco: Conference on "Sacred Music and Aesthetics of North Africa" funded by the American Institute of Maghrebi Studies: Deborah Kapchan kapchan@mail.utexas.edu.
July 12-15. Fife, Scotland: U St. Andrew's, Conference on Foreign Policies of Middle East States. Registration deadline is 31 March 1999: Prof. Raymond Hinnebusch at: rh10@st-andrews.ac.uk.
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