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FROM THE GLORIA CENTER NEWS FROM THE GLORIA CENTER Table
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Numéro 1 (janvier 2007) : Barry Rubin's lecture "Back to Futility," presented at UCLA on November 13, 2006, is available through audio link. The lecture discussed the remarkable return in Middle East politics to the politics of the 1950s and 1960s. Available at: click here. 1. PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST A. Books Nicholas Blanford, Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East (I.B. Tauris Publishers, August 2006). 248 pages. HB: £12.59. ISBN: 1845112024. For further information, click here. Eleanor A. Doumato and Gregory Starrett (eds.), Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East (Lynne Reinner Publishers, October 2006). 260 pages. HB: £41.5/ $55. ISBN: 9781588264503. For further information, visit: http://www.rienner.com/subject.htm. Hamid
Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought (I.B. Tauris
Publishers, March 2004). 240 pages. PB: £9.74 + P&P, Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnebusch (eds.), The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences (Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2006). 357 pages. HB: £43.95/ $58.5. ISBN: 9781588264138. PB: £14.95/ $23.5, ISBN: 9781588264381. For further information, visit: http://www.rienner.com/subject.htm. Laura James, Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2006). 256 pages. HB: £45.00. ISBN: 0230006434. The book analyzes a critical turning point for the modern Middle East. From his 1956 Suez triumph to the 1967 defeat, President Nasser of Egypt dominated the Arab revolution. Drawing on new Arabic material, this history casts a fresh light on Nasser's era and legacy of conflict. Its exploration of his changing enemy images, and how his former U.S. ally came to be viewed as an imperialist opponent, provides an essential background to developments in the contemporary Arab world. For further information, click here. Mehran
Kamrava (ed.), The New Voices of Islam: Reforming Politics
and Modernity - A Reader (I.B. Tauris Publishers, September
2006). 304 pages. PB: £10.49 + P&P, Edy Kaufman, Walid Salem, and Juliette Verhoeven (eds.), Bridging the Divide: Peace Building in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Lynne Reinner Publishers, October 2006). 320 pages. HB: £41.5/ $55. ISBN: 9781588263650. PB: £16.95/ $22.5. ISBN: 9781588263902. For further information, visit: http://www.rienner.com/subject.htm. Yoram Meital, Peace in Tatters: Israel, Palestine and the Middle East (Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2006). 253 pages. HB: £38.95/ $52. ISBN: 9781588263629. PB: £16.5/ $22. ISBN: 9781588263872. For further information, visit: http://www.rienner.com/subject.htm. Kamal Salibi, A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered (I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2006). 256 pages. PB: £10.49. ISBN: 1860649122. For further information, click here. Dov Waxman, The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending/Defining the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). 264 pages. HB: $69.95. ISBN: 1-4039-7458-6. The book offers a theoretically-informed analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domestic identity politics to Israeli foreign policy, it reveals how a crisis of Israeli identity inflamed the debate in Israel over the Oslo peace process. For further information, click here. B. Journals, Newsletters, Papers Nichole Argo, "Human Bombs: Rethinking Religion and Terror," April 2006. This paper presents common perceptions about suicide bombers and analyzes them. It is based on extensive interviews with failed bombers and families. For further information, visit: http://web.mit.edu/cis/pdf/argo_audit_4.06.pdf. Nichole
Argo, "Transnational Violence in the Persian Gulf." A scholars'
workshop summary that comes to some surprising conclusions
about the nature of jihad in the Gulf. For further information,
visit: Peter
Brookes and James Phillips, "NIE Confirms that the Outcome
of the Iraq War is Critical to the War on Terrorism," Web
Memo #1226 by the Heritage Foundation, September 27, 2006.
For further information, visit: Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, "Unfinished Business: Archival Evidence Exposes the Diplomatic Aspect of the USSR's Pre-Planning for the Six Day War," Cold War History, Vol. 6, No. 3 (August 2006), pp. 377-395. Abstract accessible at: click here. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, "Is Iran's Reform Movement Dead?," January 2006. This paper assesses the state of the democracy movement and its future. For further information, visit: http://web.mit.edu/cis/pdf/Audit_01_06_Fatemeh.pdf. Robert McMahon, "Foreign Policy and the U.S. Midterm Elections," an analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations, September 27, 2006. For further information, visit: http://www.cfr.org/publication/11547/. Quinn
Meacham, "Why do Islamist Groups Become Transnational and
Violent?," August 2006. This paper describes how state actions
and other circumstances can actually stimulate terrorism.
For further information, visit: Ali Mostashari, "Iran: Rogue State?," September 2005. This is a sober assessment of Iran's foreign policy and whether it qualifies as a bad actor in the region. For further information, visit: http://web.mit.edu/cis/pdf/Audit_9_05_Mostashari.pdf. John Tirman, "The Crisis of Governance in the Gulf: Legitimacy and Stability in a Dark Time." This 46 page report explores issues of legitimacy and sources of instability in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq, following three workshops convening top scholars, which were organized by the Center for International Studies (CIS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For further information, visit: http://web.mit.edu/cis/PGI_REPORT.pdf. 2. WEBSITES/GROUPS ONLINE "Jihad Monitor" is a guide to open internet resources on Islamist radicalism and jihadism. For further information, visit: http://www.jihadmonitor.org/. "The Arab and Iranian Reaction to 9/11: Five Years Later" is a documentary film by MEMRI Films. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Middle East Media Research Institute has been monitoring, translating, and recording statements from the Arab and Iranian media about what took place on that day. Among these statements are conspiracy theories by prominent journalists, members of academia, leading religious figures, and even Arab government officials about what "really" happened. To view the entire film, click here. 3. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS 4. FUNDING/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES The Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy and the Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT), at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), announce the opening of the enrollment for the fourth and upcoming Counter-Terrorism Studies Executive Certificate Program in January/February 2007. This high-level, intensive program attracts an international group of practitioners, executives and scholars dealing with homeland security, most of whom have prior counter-terrorism experience and/or expertise. The program uses a multidisciplinary approach to address core issues fueling the global threat and offers keen insights and analyses of counter-terrorism efforts on multiple levels. Designed in a modular way, participants have the flexibility to attend individual courses when necessary. A minimum of six courses is required in order to obtain the full Executive Certification. For registration, visit click here. For further information, contact: ctstudies@idc.ac.il. Writing Opportunities June 11-13, 2007. Ra'anana, Israel. The Open University. The Association for Israel Studies calls for papers to its 23rd AIS Annual Conference, "Israel as an Immigrant Society: Between the Melting Pot and Multiculturalism." Other topics relating to the field of Israel studies in broad perspective, such as the Israel-Arab conflict, the impact of the Holocaust on Israeli society, minorities, ethnicity, state-religion relations, and Israel-Diaspora relations, are welcomed as well. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the member of the Program Committee whose area of responsibility is closest to the proposal's discipline, with a copy sent to the committee chair. Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2006. For further information, visit: http://www.aisisraelstudies.org or http://openu.ac.il/ais2007conference. 5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP 6. SCHOLARS AND AUTHORS ALERTS Talip Kucukcan, & Veyis Gungor, Euroturks and Turkey-EU Relations: The Dutch Case (Amsterdam: Türkevi Research Centre, 2006). ISBN: 9077814000. For further information, visit: Talip Kucukcan, at: tkucukcan@gmail.com. P. R. Kumaraswamy, Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (The Scarecrow Press, Inc., October 2006). 424 pages. HB: $99.00. ISBN: 0810853434. The dictionary provides factual background through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a chronology, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the more significant persons, places, and events, including the various wars and negotiations. The history, religion, culture, and archeology that this rivalry has sparked between the Arabs and Israelis over the same piece of territory is traced in this book, which offers the essential details using neutral terms and thereby allowing readers to draw conclusions for themselves. For further information, click here. To order through Amazon, click here. 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES February 17, 2007. London, England. School of Oriental and African Studies. September 3, 2007. Birzeit University, Palestinian Authority. The British Academy and the auspices of the London Middle East Institute, SOAS call for papers for a workshop entitled: "The Politics of Elections and the Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East: Perspectives from within and below." The workshop will be held in two stages, the first stage to be held in London at SOAS, the second at Birzeit University near Ramallah, Palestinian Authority. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Dr Stephanie Cronin, at: scronin2002@aol.com. For the London workshop, no later than December 1st; for the Birzeit workshop, no later than February 1st. Participants should state which of the sessions, in London or in the Palestinian Authority, they wish to attend. For further information, visit: http://www.smuc.ac.uk/holylandstudies/middle_east_institute.pdf, or contact Ms. Cornin at the email above. MERIA
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