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Issue 2/February 1999
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Issue 2/February 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:
IMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA JOURNAL, VOL. 3, NO. 1 (MARCH 1999)
The next issue of MERIA Journal includes a wide range of interesting and useful articles. Sean Foley provides an excellent survey of the United Arab Emirates' current politics and problems. Alan Dowty writes on ethnic Jewish factors shaping Israeli foreign policy. Ali R. Abootalebi has original perspectives on "Islam, Islamists and Democracy." Robert O. Freedman's article on U.S. policy and the peace process is an up-to-date assessment of the changing American role. An essay on China's Middle East policy comes from Barry Rubin. The Journal will also include two shorter pieces, by Adeed Dawisha on political violence in Bahrain, and by Ustun Reinart on Turkish political leader Tansu Ciller.
MERIA readers will receive all these articles in separate email sendings.
We are now seeking articles for the following issue of MERIA Journal, to be published in June, and welcome submitted items or queries. Write: besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il.
We will also soon be sending you the latest issue of CURRENT CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, produced by the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and distributed by MERIA.
GLOBAL EVENTS CALENDAR: The 1999 Global Events Calendar, including all Middle East related events, is now on our website. It contains listings both for conferences and calls for papers. If you have an event you would like to have listed there and in MERIA News, please send information to:besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
"The Camp David Accords and Related Documents", a collection of documents pertaining to the Camp David process, Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy. Contact: Shaul Rahabi <srahabi@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>.
"Can Saddam be Toppled" in Foreign Affairs, January-February 1999. Articles by David Bynan, Kenneth Pollack and Gideon Rose Brill Academic Publishers is publishing the Encyclopaedia of Islam on CD-ROM: Crescens Akkermans: Akkermans@brill.nl.
A number of scholars have recently compiled useful lists of Arabic-language bookstores and online places to order such books. An especially good annotated list was developed by Mark LeVine mal1190@is6.NYU.EDU. Below are a few email addresses from his list. In many cases, the companies have free catalogues: Bousani's in Cairo, bph@ritsec3.com.eg; Kazi Publications: http://www.kazi.org/; World of Reading www.wor.com; Astrolabe www.astrolabepictures.com; Arabesq www.arabesq.com; Sound Vision www.soundvision.com; www.ARAMEDIA.com; Joppa Books http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/joppa; Leila Books, Cairo, http://www.leila-books.com; Daff & Raff books, www.daffraff.com; www.almaktabah.com; Catherine @ Alain Bittar, Geneva: www.arabooks.ch; http://IslamicBookstore.com; http://www.arabworld.com/abc/.
Other bookshop lists can be found at the Oman Studies Centre http://www.oman.org/bshops.htm. In London, there is the al-Hoda Bookshop http://www.alhoda.com. Another list has been compiled by Frank Unlandherm, including both publishers and bookstores in Middle East Studies (Arabic. Persian, Turkish, etc): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/Pubs.h tml
A good guidebook is an indispensible aid to travelling and writing about Middle East countries. Two particularly useful volumes have just been produced by Footprint Handbooks: Dave Winter and John Matthews, Israel Handbook with the Palestinian Authority Areas, and their companion volume on Syria and Jordan. What makes these books especially good is that they combine the practical aspects of travel (hotels, restaurants, etc.), with detailed accounts on historical and other sites of interest. Highly recommended. For information: ntcpub2@aol.com U.S.; handbooks@footprint.cix.co.uk England.
A. Gulf-related sites:
Iraq Net, a site for Iraqi exiles: http://www.iraq.net.
Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Movement: http://www.iraqcmm.org
Megasites, "Iraq Under Sanctions": http://www.iasps.org.il/strat2.htm.
U Texas, Conflict in Iraq at: http://www.la.utexas.edu/soc308c/projects/iraq/.
Iraq's main opposition movement, Iraqi National Congress now online: http://www.inc.org.uk.
SICRI, Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sciri/.
The Trade and Environment Database maintains a site dedicated to the Tigris-Euphrates River Dispute: http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/ted/ice/tigris.htm.
B. Turkey:
Second issue of STAD (Virtual Journal of Turkology Researches): http://turkoloji.cu.edu.tr/Stadana/stadana.html.
C. Israel:
Jewish Student Online Research Center: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/.
Ariga's Israeli election campaign page: http://www.ariga.com/5759/elexdex.htm.
Yahoo's coverage of Israeli elections: http://headlines.yahoo.com/full_coverage/world/israel_elections/.
Israeli Foreign Ministry has a detailed site on elections with background information on the political system: http://www.israel.org/news/elec99-update.html.
"Coping with Crumbling States: A Western and Israeli Balance of Power Strategy for the Levant": http://www.iasps.org.il/strat2.htm.
The Center for Arab and Gulf Studies at U Exeter (UK) has a special page for resources on the Israel-Palestinian conflict: http://www.ex.ac.uk/ags/palint.htm.
Conference for Middle East Peace: http://www.cmep.com.
Middle East Unit of the Truman Institute, Hebrew U: http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~truman/middle_m.html.
Religious-nationalist radio station Arutz Sheva: http://www.a7.org/.
D. Palestinians
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) redesigned website: http://www.pcbs.org or: http://www.pcbs2.org.
Personal websites of Palestinian notables can be found at: http://www.amin.org/pages/pgen.htm, as well as other articles, job listings and an Arabic newsstand at: http://www.amin.org/En/.
E. Media
The Internet Public Library has links to online newspapers from around the world, including the Middle East: http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/.
Aamer Abu Qarn has links to the daily Arab press in Arabic and English: http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/a/aabuqarn/news/daily.html.
Yahoo's site dedicated to the Jordanian succession: http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage//World/Jordan/News_Stor ies.html.
Foreignwire news service has good coverage of the Middle East at: http://www.foreignwire.com/index.html.
Yemen Times: http://www.yementimes.com/. It has a link list at: http://www.yementimes.com/links.htm.
F. Other
Cambridge Global Security Program: http://www.gsp.cam.ac.uk/gsp.html.
The Istituto per l'Oriente in Italy: http://www.mix.it/ipo.
Ali Ayemeni, "Yemen's unresolved Issues", concerning corruption, border disputes, and maldistribution of power in Yemen. http://www.angelfire.com/mn/yemeni/.
Bios of Middle East historical figures can be found at: http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/bio/.
Internet Society of Syria (ISS): http://leb.net/~iss/ArPersHP.html.
The Golden Who's Who of Lebanese Emigrants in the World at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~lbnwgw/whoiswho/index.htm.
The International Association of Orientalist Librarians: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IAOL/iaol.html. The most recent issue of the IAOL Bulletin: http://testurl.doit.wisc.edu:7001/iaol/
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
Conference for Middle East Peace's e-mail publication is very useful since it is the only source making available daily translations from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Contact: Murray Kahl kahl@cmep.com.
A new Turkology mailing list is at: turkoloji@egroups.com. To subscribe: turkoloji-subscribe@egroups.com.
Receive the Yemen Times by e-mail by sending a SUBSCRIBE message to: subscribe@yementimes.com.
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
Middle East Quarterly seeks a part-time editor. Deadline for submission of credentials: May 1, 1999. Contact Daniel Pipes at: Meqmef@aol.com.
Call for papers by Oman Studies Center for symposium on Oman in Bonn, Germany, July 2-3. Deadline: May. 25, 1999. See: http://www.oman.org/bonn.htm.
Prof. Sanford Silverburg ssilver@catawba.edu seeks scholars with training in international law to contribute to a book he is editing on the legal aspects of the political and economic issues of the emergent Palestinian entity.
Call for papers by Israel Studies for a special issue on the Americanization of Israeli Culture. Deadline for proposals, May 1, 1999. Deadline for papers: September 1, 1999. Contact Prof. Ilan Troen: istudies@bgumail.bgu.ac.il.
The editors of Books on Israel invite proposals for contributions to volume six which will be published by SUNY Press. Books should be used as a point of departure for an essay on the topics covered. Essays should be 15-25 pages long. Deadline: June 11, 1999. Contact Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg: le3a@andrew.cmu.edu.
The other editors are: Neil Caplan caplann@vaniercollege.qc.ca; Muhammed Abu-Nimer abunim@american.edu; and Naomi Sokoloff naosok@u.washington.edu.
February 15 is the deadline for proposing presentations or panels for the Annual Meeting of the Association of Israel Studies to be held May 23-25 at American U in Washington, D.C., American U: Joel Migdal: migdal@u.washington.edu.
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
Elisheva Rosman-Stollman chendelle@hotmail.com seeks information about relations between the Gulf States and Israel (1991-1999).
Michael Knights michael.knights@kcl.ac.uk seeks material relating to ruler-state-society relations in Qatar, particularly anything on constitutional and political changes since 1995.
Thilo von Hahn tvh@bicc.uni-bonn.de seeks information on how to contact the Israeli International Institute for Applied Economic Policy Review.
Wer4lsu@aol.com wants to know more about the life of Camilla Anwar Sadat, Anwar Sadat's daughter.
Howard A. Patten zclhn20@ucl.ac.uk wants suggest readings and other material regarding Sephardic immigration to Israel and that community's effect on Israeli society.
"Evaluating Water Balances in Israel" by Prof. Harvey Lithwick. Analyzes how recent reforms in allocation have alleviated shortages and may ameliorate aspects of conflicts over water. To order: lithwick@bgumail.bgu.ac.il.
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
(For a full list, see the Global Events Calendar on our Homepage)
February 16. Tel Aviv, Moshe Dayan Ctr. For Middle Eastern and African Studies: "The Gulf States: Hourglass of the Age of Oil" (in Hebrew): dayancen@ccsg.tau.ac.il.
February 21. London. Meretz-UK, Nafissa Boudalia, journalist, poet and painter on "Current Situation in Algeria," Hashomer House 37A Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6, tel: 0171-328 5451.
February 22. Washington, DC, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown U, Lecture by Patrick Gaffney: "Speaking of Power: The Ambiguous Authority of Islamic Clerics: CCASINFO@gunet.georgetown.edu.
February 28. London, Meretz-UK, Neil Lochery, "The 1999 Israeli Election campaign, Hashomer House, 37A Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6, tel: 0171-328 5451.
March 1-2. New York. CWC Associates and the Energy Intelligence Group: Oil and Gas Investments in Re-Emerging Middle East Markets: Iran & Iraq: Geopolitics and economics affecting strategic investment in the Middle East: lwilliams@cwconferences.co.uk.
March 4-5. Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, conference on Mediterranean Security: www.diplomacy.edu
March 7-14. London. Jewish Book Week, http://www.jewishbookweek.org.uk/assoc.
March 16-17. Banking and Finance Oman: New Millennium, New Frontiers: events@gto.net.om.
March 26. Paris, Le Monde Diplomatique Conference: "Actualities of a Palestinian State." Alain Gresh: Alain.Gresh@Monde-Diplomatique.fr.
April 9-10. Villanova U, USA. Center for Arab and Islamic Studies: "Iraq: A Symposium on the History, People and Politics". Dr. Shams Inati: inati@ucis.vill.edu.
May 23-25. Washington, D.C., American U: Annual Meeting of the Association of Israel Studies. Joel Migdal: migdal@u.washington.edu. Deadline for proposing presentations and panels: February 15.
July 2-3. Bonn, Germany, Oman Studies Center, symposium on Oman: http://www.oman.org/bonn.htm.
September 27-29. Liege, Belgium, Gent U, MELCOM International meeting at EURAMES Conference. Peter Colvin: pc7@soas.ac.uk.
September 27-29. Liege, Belgium, European Association for Middle Eastern Studies Conference (EURAMES 1999), Hosted by The Center for Third World Studies, University of Ghent, Belgium September 27-29, 1999. Abstracts of proposed presentations should be 150 words, to be submitted before June 1. For details: christopher.parker@ping.be or sami.zemni@rug.ac.be
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