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10, Number 3 (September 2006): The first issue of MERIA Journal, French edition was published in July 2006. The articles and table of contents can be accessed by clicking here. MERIA Journal, French edition is now calling for article submissions for its 2nd issue. Articles should be submitted in French and should deal with politics, society, history, economics, and other areas of the modern Middle East (twentieth and twenty-first centuries). Submissions should be around 5,000-8,000 words (including notes and references). Deadline for article submissions: October 1, 2006. Authors are encouraged to submit proposals or queries to meria@idc.ac.il. You can also contact us to recommend potential authors or if you would like to receive a free subscription to the Journal's French edition. Le premier numéro du Journal MERIA, édition française a été publié en juillet 2006. Cliquez ici pour accéder à son sommaire et lire les articles. Compte tenu du succès de ce premier numéro, nous cherchons maintenant des articles pour le deuxième. Les articles doivent être en français et étudier la politique, la société, l'histoire, l'économie, et autres aspects du Moyen-Orient moderne (20ème et 21ème siècles). Les contributions contiennent généralement entre 5.000 et 8.000 mots (notes et références incluses). Date limite d'envoi de contributions: 1er octobre 2006. Nous encourageons les auteurs à nous soumettre leurs contributions et leurs questions en écrivant à meria@idc.ac.il. Vous pouvez aussi nous contacter pour recommander des auteurs potentiels ou si vous souhaitez vous abonner gratuitement à l'édition française du Journal MERIA. Barry Rubin, "Il Suicidio Arabo," Italian Review of Geopolitics Limes (September 2006). For more information, visit: http://www.limesonline.com/index.htm. 1. PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST A. Books Anthony H. Cordesman, Arab-Israeli Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric Wars (Washington, D.C.: Greenwood Publishing in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 2006). 432 pages. HB: $89.95, UK Sterling Price: £50.99. ISBN: 0-275-99186-5. For further information, visit: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9186.aspx. Munther J. Haddadin (ed.), Water Resources in Jordan: Evolving Policies for Development, the Environment, and Conflict Resolution (RFF Press, August 2006). 280 pages. HB: $65.00. ISBN: 1-933115-32-7. This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary book to address water policy in Jordan. For further information, contact: Dowd@rff.org. Salwa
Ismail, Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State
and Islamism (I.B.Tauris
Publishers, 2006). 256 pages. PB: £11.67
+ P&P, Samuel Kaplan, The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2006). 280 pages. HB: $65.00, ISBN: 0804754322. PB: $24.95, ISBN: 0804754330. For further information, visit: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5432%205433. Keith
Kyle, SUEZ: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East (I.B.Tauris
Publishers,
2006). 704 pages. PB: £14.59
+ P&P, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
and Richard Tapper, Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari
and the Quest for Reform (I.B.Tauris Publishers,
2006). 208 pages. PB: £12.40 + P&P, James Russell, Critical Issues Facing the Middle East: Security, Politics and Economics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2006). The book takes a multi-level analysis of the many different structural aspects of the security environment in the Middle East and Persian Gulf. For further information, click here. Colonel Gerald Schumacher, Hunting al Qaeda: A Take-No-Prisoners Account of Terror, Adventure, and Disillusionment (Akhil Books, 2006). HB: $31.50. ISBN: 8170492807. For further information, visit: http://www.akhilbooks.com/frmshowallproduct.aspx?subcatRelid=111. B. Journals, Newsletters, Papers Journal d'Iran is a biannual francophone journal about the Iranian world. The latest issue (July-August, 2006) entitled "Nucléaire iranien : le dernier recours ?" ("Iran's Nuclear Activity: Last Resort?") is now available. It is a report from the European Institute for Strategic Research on Iran's June 26, 2006 conference in Paris: "L'Iran, la technologie nucléaire et les nouveaux enjeux de sécurité au Moyen-Orient" ("Iran, nuclear technology and the new security challenges in the Middle East"). To subscribe, contact: abonnement@journaldiran.com. For more information, contact: sima.taheri@journaldiran.com. Nonproliferation Issues (NPI) (August 22, 2006) is a current digest of nonproliferation, arms control, and international security literature. The latest issue can be accessed at: http://www.firstwatchint.org/npi.html. Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2006) entitled "The Wider Black Sea Area: Region, Crossroads, or Buffer?" is now available. TPQ is a foreign policy journal put out by the ARI Movement based in Istanbul. To access the issue, go to: http://www.turkishpolicy.com or http://www.esiweb.org. For further information, contact Nigar Goksel at nigar@ari.org.tr. Steven A. Cook and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, "Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations." In the report, Council Fellows, the authors make the case that Turkey's strategic importance is greater than ever. They examine current sources of friction in the bilateral relationship and set forth policy recommendations for repairing and sustaining constructive ties between Washington and Ankara. For a printed copy of this report, call +1-800-537-5487. The full text of the report is available at: http://www.cfr.org/publication/10796/. Nimrod Goren, "Embracing the EU-Membership Incentive: Turkish Civil Society's Quest for Opening Accession Negotiations, 1999-2004," Europe Forum, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. For further information, contact Ms. Revital Goldberg at: mseuro@mscc.huji.ac.il. Tarek Heggy, "The worst-case scenario," Ottawa Citizen, July 31, 2006. To read, click here. Dr. Rivka Yadlin, "Female Suicide Bombers: Dying for Equality?" Memoranda 84, August 2006, the Jaffe Center for Strategic studies. For further information, visit: http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/publications.html#memoranda. 2. WEBSITES/GROUPS ONLINE A. General Tarek Heggy TV interviews are now available at http://www.tarek-heggy-interviews.com and include a July 8, 2006 interview on al-Hurra TV on "The Tragic Status of Arab Women." Heggy's weekly Egyptian Gazette column (in English) is published every Wednesday. He also has a weekly Saturday column in The Egyptian Mail. An additional 250 articles in both Arabic and English can be accessed at: http://www.heggy.org. The Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel has launched a new site: http://www.instituteforcounterterrorism.org. 3. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS To subscribe to the International Studies Journal (ISJ), write to info@isj.ir. For further information, visit: http://www.isj.ir. 4. FUNDING/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution announces a new visiting fellowship in Arab Reform. The fellowship is open to scholars, journalists, politicians, and activists from the Arab world. The fellow is to spend four months in residence at the Brookings Institution and will be provided round-trip travel, a stipend, office space, research assistance, computer resources, and full access to the Brookings Library. Fellows will participate in the various policy, research, and outreach aspects of the center and will research and will write an analysis paper in consultation with the Project Director. Applicants should be citizens or permanent residents of an Arab country and be actively engaged in political and economic reform issues as researchers, writers, and/or practitioners. Applicants must be able to speak, read, and write English, hold at least a university degree, and have writing experience. Application deadline: September 30, 2006. For further information, contact: ytse@brookings.edu. Writing Opportunities October 21-24, 2006. The Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University, the Persian Students Association at Stanford University, in collaboration with the Iranian Studies Group at MIT and the Iran Research Committee at the University of California-Berkeley invite paper submissions for the third annual gathering of young Iranian scholars of North America. The conference, hosted by Stanford University, seeks to bring together promising young Iranian scholars residing in North America, who do research on various issues related to Iran and Iranian societies worldwide. The goal of the conference is to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among the next generation of Iranian scholars, and to promote dialogue on issues facing contemporary Iranian societies in Iran and worldwide. Exceptional papers in other topics of importance to contemporary Iranian society also welcome. For further information, visit: http://www.stanford.edu/group/psa/events/2006-07/ifp_06/index.htm. September 15-17, 2007. Sile (Istanbul), Turkey. Isik University. The Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the Department of International Relations of Isik University invite proposals for an international cultural studies conference entitled "E/Im/Migration and Culture." The inter-multidisciplinary conference aims to interrogate established notions of migration both in Turkey and outside of Turkey. Proposals for papers that break new ground in generating theory, or constitute innovative critical or comparative work that would lead to theoretical formulations and methodology, as well as papers on specific cases are welcome. Deadline: October 1, 2006. Contact: programgoc@kulturad.org. For more information, write to the same addresses or visit: http://www.kulturad.org. Results to be announced on February 1, 2007. MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) invites contributions for a volume focusing on the De-construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization, following a September 2005 symposium organized in Istanbul, Turkey. Articles should be 5,000-7,000 words and should follow the MLA style of documentation. Abstracts of 100-200 words must be sent by October 1, 2006. Deadline for complete essays: January 32, 2007. For further details, write to: gpultar@kulturad.org. The Association for Israel Studies announces the 2006 Ben Halpern Dissertation Award in Israel Studies for dissertations submitted between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006. The Award committee will consider dissertations in the social sciences and humanities, in either English or Hebrew. The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2007. Dissertations must be nominated by two recommenders familiar with the candidate's work. The recommenders are expected to explain the work's contribution to the study of the yishuv, Zionism, or the State of Israel. Copies of the letters of recommendation and of the dissertation itself should be sent to the Award Committee members. The winner will be announced in April, and the prize will be awarded at the AIS annual meeting in June 2007. For further information, contact: AIS-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU. The Association for Israel Studies announces the Yonathan Shapiro prize for the best book in Israel Studies published during the calendar year 2006. This annual award honors the memory of Shapiro (1929-97) by recognizing outstanding scholarship in the history, politics, society, and culture of Israel and pre-1948 Jewish Palestine. Authored books (not including edited anthologies) published in English or Hebrew during the calendar year 2006 are eligible for consideration. Nominations should be made by the publisher of the book. The submission deadline is January 15, 2007. The winner will be announced in April and the prize will be awarded at the June 2007 meeting of the Association for Israel Studies. One copy of each submission should be sent to each of the members of the Shapiro Award Committee. For further information, contact: AIS-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU. 5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP 6. SCHOLARS AND AUTHORS ALERTS 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES September 6, 2006. Tel-Aviv, Israel. The Center for Iranian studies at Tel Aviv University invites participants to a conference entitled "After the war: Iran in the heart of the changing Middle East." For further information, contact: irancen@post.tau.ac.il. November 3, 2006. Whitehall, London, England. The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defense and Security Studies invites participants to its upcoming workshop, "Understanding Suicide Terrorism." For further information on this event or to discuss sponsorship opportunities, write to: garryh@rusi.org. MERIA
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