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Issue 15/November 2000
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Associate Editor, Judith Colp Rubin
Assistant Editor, Cameron Brown
Issue 15/November 2000
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Associate Editor, Judith Colp Rubin
Assistant Editor, Cameron Brown
CONTENTS (Please credit if quoting; ask permission to reprint):
IMPORTANT NEWS: NEW MERIA JOURNAL, Vol. 4, No. 4 (December 2000); ON MERIA'S WEBSITE
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, and activites)
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IMPORTANT NEWS: NEW MERIA JOURNAL, Vol. 4, No. 4 (December 2000);
The next issue of MERIA Journal, Vol. 4, No. 4 (December 2000), will be
sent to all subscribers and includes the following articles:
Amatzia Baram, "Saddam Husayn Between His Power Base and the
International Community" is a detailed discussion of Iraq's foreign and
domestic policies, including the regime's strategy for survival and the status
of international sanctions.
Jon B. Alterman, "The Gulf States and the American Umbrella"
surveys U.S. policy toward the Persian Gulf, with an analysis of changing
positions toward Iran and Iraq.
Bulent Aras and Omer Caha, "Fethullah Gulen and His Liberal `Turkish
Islam' Movement," presents an innovative, influential group in Turkey which
has developed a liberal, pro-democratic Islamist philosophy.
Gayane Novikova, "Armenia and the Middle East" explains the
role of Armenia in the South Caucasus and its connections with Middle East
issues.
Gal Luft, "Palestinian military performance during the al-Aqsa
intifada" is an analysis of the Palestinian police's role in the
September-October Palestinian uprising.
Isabella Ginor, "The Russians Were Coming: Soviet Policy in the 1967
War" uses new data to show how the USSR reacted during that Middle East
conflict, including contingency plans for direct intervention.
Carmine Gianluca Ansalone, "Water Scarcity and Security in the Middle East: A Tigris-Euphrates case study" views the Syrian and Iraqi dispute with Turkey over the water resources of those two rivers.
ON MERIA'S WEBSITE
As the end of our fourth year approaches, MERIA has over 7,500
subscribers. We estimate that another 2,000 people receive our publications
indirectly through other lists. In November 2000, 11,646 different people used
our site. This is a dramatic increase over the last year. While these people
come from many countries, it is interesting the extent to which people in Saudi
Arabia and Iran, for example, use the site, in addition to the many readers in
North America, Europe, and throughout the Middle East.
1. PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
A. Books:
The 1998/9 Report on Middle East Arms Control and Proliferation,
published by the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, is available in print. For a
free copy, write Elisheva Brown <browne@mail.biu.ac.il>.
October 2000 edition of the Journal of Democracy has a collection of
articles on democracy and pluralism in Iran.
A dozen papers from Gulf/2000's July 2000 conference on "The Future
of Iraq," held in Nicosia, Cyprus, appear in the October 2000 issue of
Middle East Policy (volume 7, no. 4). To order: <journal@mepc.org>.
Tony Allan, The Water Question in the Middle East: Hydropolitics and the
Global Economy, Tauris, 336 pp., 39.50 pounds sterling. To order: <mail@ibtauris.com>;
for information: <http://www.soas.ac.uk/geography/waterissues/>.
S. McKnight, N. Partrick & F. Toase (eds.), Gulf Security:
Opportunities & Challenges for the New Generation (London: RUSI, 2000) ISBN
0-085516-131-0 [=Whitehall Papers no. 51], 143 pp. write: <membership@rusi.org>
or visit <http://www.rusi.org>.
2. WEBSITES/GROUPS ONLINE
The 2000 edition of the Inventory of International Nonproliferation
Organizations and Regimes online and in hard copy: <http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/inven/inven2k.pdf>.
The National Democratic Institute has a variety of programs supporting
democracy and dealing with elections in the region. For general programs see
<http://www.ndi.org/ndi/worldwide/mideast_noafrica/mideast_noafrica.htm>.
For the West Bank and Gaza, <http://www.ndi.org/ndi/worldwide/mideast_noafrica/westbankgaza/westbankgaza.htm>
and for a pre-election report on Kyrgyzstan: <http://www.ndi.org/ndi/worldwide/eurasia/kyrgyzstan/kyrgyzstan2000/kyrgystmt09200.htm>.
A study of the Iran-US claims tribunal: <http://www.arbitrationsite.com/frm-tc.htm>.
Interview with John Lauder, CIA director of non-proliferation, on Iran,
WMD, and other topics: <http://www.menewsline.com/oneonone.html>.
Biography and writings of Sheikh Abdullah Azzam (1941-89), Palestinian
Islamist influential on Usama Bin Ladin and other radical Islamists: <http://www.hoct.com/islam/defence.htm>.
National News Agency of Lebanon: <http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/index_en.html>.
Site on former Israeli prime minister Levi Eshkol:<http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/index.html>.
Kol Yisrael audio broadcast news: <http://www.israelradio.org/english.html
Ha'aretz online articles on soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah <http://www2.haaretz.co.il/special/soldiers-e/>.
Jerusalem Quarterly, table of contents: <http://www.jqf-jerusalem.org/>.
Papers by Anita Keizers on cooperation between international libraries in
Cairo and by Catherine Fauveaud on Middle East collections in the libraries of
the College du France on the Melcom (Middle East librarians) homepage:
Najah University Library, <http://www.najah.edu/english/library/main.html>.
The 1999 survey of the Iranian telecom and internet infrastructure is now
online, with contributions by many professionals in the field: <http://www.science-arts.org>.
A good "Directory of the Arab World": <http://www.mauje.com/directory/dir_main.asp>
includes links to political parties' websites.
The Ataturk Project is a collection of 27 cassettes containing interviews
with people from the Ataturk era and those who knew him. For more information:
Feriha Karadeniz <feriha@bilkent.edu.tr>.
A collection of documents on the Arab-Israeli conflict can be found at
<http://www.ariga.com/treaties/ip.htm>.
The Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown U has a conference report
on a meeting about "The European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI) and
Turkey <http://turkishstudies.org/reportsb.html>.
The Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies (EJOS) has published its third
volume (2000) with two new articles and three monographs: For more information:
<ejos@let.uu.nl>.
The Comite pour le Respect des Libertes et des Droits de l Homme en
Tunisie, a human rights group: <http://www.maghreb-ddh.sgdg.org>.
Special pages on Israeli-Palestinian crisis:
A full-color map showing an interpretation of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's
offer to the Palestinians at the Camp David summit is reproduced at <www.iris.org.il>.
(Thanks to Jon Livingston for finding this. It will be added to our maps
Research Guide on the MERIA homepage.)
Palestinian Authority page: <http://www.pna.org/mininfo/issues/topline.htm>.
NBC television: <http://www.msnbc.com/news/mideastcrisis_front.asp>.
Daily analysis of broadcasts by Voice of Palestine radio: <http://www.israelvisit.co.il/BehindTheNews>.
For the controversial article by Saleh Abdel Jawad, head of the political
science department at Bir-Zeit U on why the PA should avoid a shooting war with
Israel: <http://www.menewsline.com/headline4.html>.
Encylopaedia Britannica Primer on the Arab-Israeli Conflict: <http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,13822,00.html>.
Washington Post collection of articles:<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/mideastpeace/>.
BBC: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_990000/990530.stm>.
Nigel Parry <nigel@nigelparry.com>
has a public archive of Palestinian press releases and writings <http://www.egroups.com/messages/press-archive>.
To subscribe in order to submit materials or for more information: <http://www.egroups.com/group/press-archive>.
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project, "Proliferation News," every
Tuesday and Thursday. Their site on this subject is updated daily. See: <http://www.ceip.org/npp>.
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
New York U International Center for Advanced Studies
Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict, academic fellowships. for
2001-2002. Scholars at all career stages, fields, and countries.
Stipends are $35,000 for 9 months plus eligibility for low-cost NYU
furnished studio apartments. Deadline is January 16, 2001. Focus on research
about how the Cold War interacted with decolonization issues: <http://www.nyu.edu/institutes.nyu>,
<http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas/application.htm>
or write <icas@nyu.edu>.
The Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of
Calgary (CMSS) <http://www.stratnet.ucalgary.ca/>.
is seeking articles for its electronic Journal of Military and Strategic
Studies <http://www.stratnet.ucalgary.ca/journal/>.
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
Salman Bangash <salmanbangash@hotmail.com>
asks for suggested materials on 20th-century relations between the Soviet Union
and Iran, focusing on the role of Iran in Soviet foreign policy.
Anna Gainey <againe1@po-box.mcgill.ca>
is doing research on the politics of honor killings among Jordanians and
Palestinians. She is particularly looking for sources on the 1999 debates over
legislation in Jordan to tighten penalties for these crimes.
6. SCHOLAR'S AND AUTHOR'S ALERTS
For previously announced Author's Alerts see past issues of MERIA News.
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
[This only lists new
entries. For additional items, see MERIA News past issues on our homepage. We welcome submissions of events.]
November 9, 16, and 23, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre:
"Israel at the Movies: Documenting Conflicts," film screenings at 5pm.
November 9-10, Ciudad de la Plata, Argentina, Departamento de Medio
Oriente. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, conference in Spanish and English,
"Estados Unidos y el Medio Oriente despuis de la Guerra del Golfo.
November 10, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre: "The
Domestic Constraints of Jordanian Foreign Policy in the Hussein Era," Hani
Hourani. 5pm Dahrendorf room.
November 14, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre:Computers
and Qurans: The Commercialisation of Islamic Education in Contemporary Egypt.
Dr. Linda Herrera. 6pm. for information: 01865-284-780.
November 14, 2000, London, England, BRISMES annual lecture, 5:30pm, Main
School Lecture Theatre, Sir James Craig, "A Life with the Arabs." See:
<http://www.dur.ac.uk/brismes/lectures.html>
or contact <a.l.haysey@durham.ac.uk>.
November 15-16, Ramat Aviv, Israel, BESA Center for Strategic Studies and
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Foreign Policy Institute,
"Armed Forces in the Middle East." <browne@mail.biu.ac.il>.
November 17, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre:
"Jordan and Jerusalem," HRH Prince al-Hassan bin Talal. 5pm,
Dahrendorf room.
November 21, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre:
"Economic reform and the distributional impact of institutions: structural
adjustment in Morocco," Bryan Daves. 6pm. for information: 01865-284-780.
November 24, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre: "King
Hussein's Foreign Policy: The Imperatives of Budget Security," Professor
Laurie Brand. 5pm, Dahrendorf room.
November 28, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre: Iran: a
post-Islamist turn? Professor Asef Bayat, 6pm. for information: 01865-284-780.
November 29, St Andrews, Scotland, post-graduate symposium, "Social
Science Theory and the Academic Study of Terrorism," Centre for Study of
Terrorism and Political Violence, St Andrews University. <akd1@st-andrews.ac.uk>,
<amm5@st-andrews.ac.uk> or
<http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/intrel/research/cstpv/symposium.htm>.
December 1, Oxford, England, St. Antony's Middle East Centre: "King
Hussein and Palestinian-Jordanian Relations," Dr Paul Lalor. 5pm,
Dahrendorf room.
December 7, Ramat Aviv, Israel, BESA Center for Strategic Studies,
international conference on water issues. <browne@mail.biu.ac.il>.
December 11-13, Haifa, Israel, "Primary Solidarities and Middle East
Elite Groups, Jewish-Arab Center--Gustav Heinemann Institute of Middle Eastern
Studies. Contact: Prof. Amatzia Baram <fjar401@uvm.haifa.ac.il>;
Prof. Joseph Nevo <nevo@research.haifa.ac.il>;
Reuven Aharoni <reu_vena@netvision.net.il>.
January 8, Ramat Aviv, Israel, BESA Center for Strategic Studies,
"The New U.S. Government and Middle East Policy," <browne@mail.biu.ac.il>.
January 15 2001, Ramat Aviv, Israel, BESA Center for Strategic Studies,
"Ten Years After the Gulf War." <browne@mail.biu.ac.il>.
September 11-14, 2002, Mainz, Germany, First World Congress for Middle
Eastern Studies, <http://www.davo-online.de>;
<davo@geo.uni-mainz.de>; <http://www.geo.uni-mainz.de/davo>.
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