ELECTRONIC CURRENT CONTENTS
OF PERIODICALS ON THE MIDDLE EAST
VOL.20, NO.3, June 2000

ELECTRONIC CURRENT CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS ON THE MIDDLE EAST is a quick-alert publication, reporting in brief form the appearance of articles on the Middle East in specialized and general journals. ELECTRONIC CURRENT CONTENTS appears six times a year. It is distributed to all recipients of the MERIA News and Journal.

List of Journals Indexed in this Issue:
AFRICHE E ORIENTI, (Inverno 1999) No.4
AL-JADID, Winter 2000 (Vol.6, No.30)
ARAB STUDIES QUARTERLY, Winter 2000 (Vol.22, No.1)
BRITISH JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, Spring 2000 (Vol.27, No.1)
CIVIL SOCIETY, April 2000 (Vol.9, No.100)
CIVIL SOCIETY, May 2000 (Vol.9, No.101)
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION, February 2000, (Vol.36, No.1)
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOUTH ASIA, AFRICA AND THE M.E., (Vol.19, No.1, 1999)
DISCOURSE STUDIES, 2000 (Vol.2, No.1)
GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, (Vol.35, No.2)
HARVARD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS POLITICS, (Vol. 4, No.3, 1999)
HARVARD MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC REVIEW, (Vol.5)
INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION, (Vol.4, No.1, 1999)
INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION, (Vol.4, No.2, 1999)
INTERNATIONALE POLITIK, February 2000 (No.22)
ISLAM AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS, July 2000 (Vol.11, No.2)
ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY, February 2000 (Vol.7, No.1)
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, May 15, 2000 (Vol.11, No.1)
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, May 22, 2000 (Vol.11, No.2)
THE JERUSALEM REPORT, June 5, 2000 (Vol.11, No.3)
JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL GERONTOLOGY, December 1999 (Vol.14, No.4)
JOURNAL OF MUSLIM MINORITY AFFAIRS, (Vol.20, No.1)
JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, Spring 2000 (Vol.23, No.3)
MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, December 1999 (Vol.14, No.2)
MERIA (MIDDLE EAST REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS), June 2000 (Vol.4, No.2)
MERIP, Spring 2000 (No.214, Vol.30, No.1)
THE MIDDLE EAST, June 2000 (No.302)
MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, Winter 2000 (Vol.54, No.2)
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, April 2000 (Vol.36, No.2)
MIDSTREAM, February/March 2000 (Vol.46, No.2)
LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE, May  2000
LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE, June  2000
THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 26, 2000
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, June 15, 2000 (Vol.67, No.10)
PEACE & CHANGE, April 2000 (Vol.25, No.2)
PEACE AND CONFLICT, 2000 (Vol.6, No.1)
PEACE RESEARCH, March 2000 (Vol.37, No.2)
SAIS REVIEW, Winter-Spring (Vol.20, No.1)
SECURITY DIALOGUE, March 2000 (Vol.31, No.1)
SLAVERY & ABOLITION, December 1999 (Vol.20, No.3)
TURKISH STUDIES, Summer 2000 (Vol.1, No.1)
URBAN STUDIES, April 2000 (Vol.37, No.4)
THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY, Spring 2000 (Vol.23, No.2)
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, February 2000 (Vol.14, No.1)
WORLD AFFAIRS, Winter 2000 (Vol.162, No.3)
WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, Spring 2000 (Vol.17, No.1)

CONTENTS:

AFRICHE E ORIENTI, (Inverno 1999) No.4
Antonio Pezzano, "Il Lungo Camino Verso la Democrazia di Ben Ali. Le Prime Elezioni Presidenziali 'Pluraliste' in Tunisia" [38-47]

AL-JADID, Winter 2000, (Vol.6, No.30)
Michael F. Davie, "Lebanon: Threatened Academic Freedom" [4-5]
Judith Gabriel, "The Arab Press: Progress Marred by Harassment of Journalists" [6]
Dina Amin, "Women in Arab Theater: Finding a Voice" [8-11]
Etel Adnan, "Shehadeh and Gibran: An Unusual Encounter" [12-13]
Sondra Hale, "Out of Place: Israel in the Photography of Ron Kelley" [14-19]
Habeeb Salloum, "Arabs Making Their Mark in Latin America" [20-23]
Elie Chalala, "25 Years Later, Lebanese Civil War Remains Unexamined by Serious Scholarship" [24]

ARAB STUDIES QUARTERLY, Winter 2000 (Vol.22, No.1)
Michael Humphrey, "Violence, Voice and Identity in Algeria" [1-24]
Ahmad H. Sa'di, "Israel as Ethnic Democracy: What are the Implications for the Palestinian Minority?" [25-38]
Ruchama Marton, "A View from Within: Problems Confronting Human Rights Organizations in Israel and the Occupied Territories" [39-50]
David J. Duncan, "Scholarly Views of Shajarat Al-Durr: A Need for Consensus" [51-70]
Robert E. Rook, "An American in Palestine: Elwood Mead and Zionist Water Resource Planning, 1923-1936" [71-90]
Ibrahim Abu-Rabi', "Arabism, Islamism, and the Future of the Arab World" [91-102]

BRITISH JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, Spring 2000 (Vol.27, No.1)
Ian Richard Netton, "Note from the Editor" [5-6]
Simon Murden, "Understanding Israel's Long Conflict in Lebanon: The Search for an Alternative Approach to Security During the Peace Process" [25-48]
Paul Auchterlonie, "A Turk of the West: Sir Edgar Vincent's Career in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire" [49-68]
Meir Litvak, "A Failed Manipulation: The British, the Oudh Bequest and the Shi'i Ulama of Najaf and Karbala" [69-90]

CIVIL SOCIETY, April 2000 (Vol.9, No.100)
Abdull Hadi Khallaf, "The New Amir of Bahrain: Marching Side-Ways" [6-13]
Nadje al-Ali, "Women's Activism and Occidentalism in Contemporary Egypt" [14-19]

CIVIL SOCIETY, May 2000 (Vol.9, No.101)
Saad Edeen Ibrahim, "Arab Intellectuals and Future-Phobia" [1-2]
Conference, "Excerpt of EU-OAU Cairo Action Plan April 2000" [2-3]
Yahia H. Zoubir, "Algerian Democratic Transition Under Bouteflika's Rule: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?" [4-9]
Ingrid Grassner, "The Evolution of an Independent Community for Palestinian Refugee Rights in Palestine" [14-17]

COMPARATIVE EDUCATION, February 2000, (Vol.36, No.1)
Leslie J. Limage, "Education and Muslim Identity: The Case of France" [73-94]

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOUTH ASIA, AFRICA AND THE M.E., (Vol.19, No.1, 1999)
Amir Arsalan Afkhami, "Defending the Guarded Domain: Epidemics and the Emergence of International Sanitary Policy in Iran" [122-136]
Valentine M. Moghadam, "Gender, National Identity and Citizenship: Reflections on the Middle East and Africa" [137-157]

DISCOURSE STUDIES, 2000 (Vol.2, No.1)
Yael-Janette Zupnik, "Conversational Interruptions in Israeli-Palestinian 'Dialogue' Events" [85-110]

GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, (Vol.35, No.2)
Bradford Dillman, "Parliamentary Elections and the Prospects for Political Pluralism in North Africa" [211-236]

HARVARD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS POLITICS, (Vol. 4, No.3, 1999)
Jihad Khazen, "Censorship and State Control of the Press in the Arab World" [87-92]

HARVARD MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC REVIEW, (Vol.5)
Philippe Fargues, "The Stages of the Family Life Cycle in Cairo at the End of the Reign of Muhammad Ali, According to the 1848 Census" [*]
Sunil Sharma, "Mas'ud Sa'd Salman and the Topos of Exile in Ghaznavid Poetry" [*]
Nevra Necipoglu, "The Coexistence of Greeks and Turks in Medieval Anatolia" [*]
Alexander Akin, "The Jing Xing Ji of du Huan: Notes on the West by a Chinese Prisoner of War" [*]
Forum: "A Survey on the Present State of Ottoman and Turkish Studies in North America" [*]
Maria Todorova, "Afterthoughts on Imagining the Balkans" [*]

INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION, (Vol.4, No.1, 1999)
Salem M. Al-Ghamdi, "Success and Failure Factors in Saudi-American Negotiations: American Views" [*]

INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION, (Vol.4, No.2, 1999)
Cecilia Albin, "When the Weak Confront the Strong: Justice, Fairness and Power in the Israel-PLO Interim Talks" [*]

INTERNATIONALE POLITIK, February 2000 (No.22)
Bassam Tibi, "Sicherheitspolitik im Zeichen des islamischen Fundamentalismus" [27-34]

ISLAM AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS, July 2000 (Vol.11, No.2)
Jacques Waardenburg, "Muslims and Christians: Changing Identities" [149-162]
Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, "The Future of Muslim Christian Relations: A Personal View" [163-166]
Suha Taji-Farouki, "Muslim Christian Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century: Some Global Challenges and Strategic Responses" [167-194]
Hugh Goddard, "Christian-Muslim Relations: A Look Backwards and a Look Forwards" [195-212]
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, "Islamic-Christian Dialogue; Problems and Obstacles to be Pondered and Overcome" [213-228]
Hans Kung, "Towards a Universal Civilization" [229-234]
Mohd Kamal Hassan, "Towards a Common Civilization" [235-242]
Nasim Hasan Shah, "Law and Religion" [235-242]
Michael Nazir-Ali, "Law and Religion: A Friend Responds to Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah" [249-252]

ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY, February 2000 (Vol.7, No.1)
Yossef Rapoport, "Matrimonial Gifts in Early Islamic Egypt" [1-36]
Nimrod Hurvitz, "Schools of Law and Historical Context: Re-examining the Formation of the Hanbali Madhhab" [37-64]
Anton Minkov, "Ottoman Tapu Title Deeds in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Origin, Typology and Diplomatics" [65-101]

THE JERUSALEM REPORT, May 15, 2000 (Vol.11, No.1)
Isabel Kershner, "Room With a View" [30-33]
Ilana Navaro, "Breaking Turkish Taboos" [34-37]

THE JERUSALEM REPORT, May 22, 2000 (Vol.11, No.2)
Khaled Abu Toameh, "Palestinian Affairs: State of Chaos?" [36-37]
Igal Avidan, "Iran's Long Road to Democracy" [38-39]

THE JERUSALEM REPORT, June 5, 2000 (Vol.11, No.3)
Leslie Susser, "The Carrot of Statehood" [18-19]
Heidi Kingstone, "Will Saddam Finally Be Brought to Justice?" [22-28]
Isabel Kershner, "Speechless in Gaza" [29-30]

JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL GERONTOLOGY, December 1999 (Vol.14, No.4)
Jamal S. Jarallah and Sulaiman A. Al-Shammari, "Factors Associated with Health Perception of Saudi Elderly" [323-334]

JOURNAL OF MUSLIM MINORITY AFFAIRS, (Vol.20, No.1)
Syed Z. Abedin, "Let There Be Light" [9-10]
Ameer Ali, "Islamism: Emancipation, Protest and Identity" [11-28]
Ahmad Yousif, "Islam, Minorities and Religious Freedom: A Challenge to Modern Theory of Pluralism" [29-42]
Goolam Vahed, "Changing Islamic Traditions and Emerging Identities in South Africa" [43-74]
Samory Rashid, "Divergent Perspectives on Islam in America" [75-90]
Karim D. Crow, "Aceh - The 'Special Territory' in North Sumatra: A Self-Fulfilling Promise?" [91-104]
Lukman Thaib, "Aceh's Case: Possible Solution to a Festering Conflict" [105-110]
M. A. Muhibbu-Din, "Ahl Al-Kitab and Religious Minorities in the Islamic State: Historical Context and Contemporary Challenges" [111-128]
Abdul Razaq Kilani, "Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations in Niger-Delta (Nigeria)" [129-136]
Mohanna Haddad, "Christian Identity in the Jordanian Arab Culture: A Case Study of Two Communities in North Jordan" [137-146]
"Marriages between Christians and Muslims: Pastoral Guidelines for Christians and Churches in Europe" [147-160]
Francis A. Boyle, "Palestine: Sue Israel for Genocide before the International Court of Justice!" [161-166]
Abd Al Wahid Pallavicini, "Islam, Europe and the West: A View from Rome" [167-170]
Ahmad Abd Al-Waliy Vincenzo, "A European Civil Project of a Documentation Center on Islam" [171-176]
Malika B. Mistry, "Muslim Youth and Contemporary Challenges: A Conference Report" [177-180]

JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, Spring 2000 (Vol.23, No.3)
Hamid Hosseini, "Economic Reality Versus Islamic Ideology: The Changes in Iran's Foreign Investment Policy Under the Islamic Republic" [1-18]
Jacob Abadi, "Constraints and Adjustments in Sudan's Policy Toward Egypt" [19-46]
Sharif M. Shuja, "India's Nuclear Bomb and the Non-Proliferation Regimes" [47-58]
Ejaz Akram, "A Comparison of the Structures and Functions of Intelligence Organizations in Israel and India" [59-80]

MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, December 1999 (Vol.14, No.2)
Dominique Valerian, "Ifriqiyan Muslim Merchants in the Mediterranean at the End of the Middle Ages" [47-66]

MERIA (MIDDLE EAST REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS), June 2000 (Vol.4, No.2)
Yossi Ben-Aharon, "Negotiating With Syria: A First-Hand Account" [1-13]
Barry Rubin, "Understanding Syrian Policy: An Analysis of Foreign Minister Farouk Al Shara's Explanation" [14-37]
Jonathan Rynhold, "Israeli-American Relations and the Peace Process" [38-53]
George J. Tenet, "Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Dimension of U.S. Middle East Policy" [54-63]
Robert O. Freedman, "Russian-Iranian Relations in the 1990's" [64-79]
Reuven Paz, "Higher Education and the Development of Palestinian-Islamic Groups" 80-94]
Michael M. Laskier, "Israel and the Maghreb at the Height of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1950's-1970's" [95-end]

MERIP, Spring 2000 (No.214, Vol.30, No.1)
Graham Usher, "Seeking Sanctuary: The 'Church'vs.'Mosque' Dispute in Nazareth" [2-4]
Maad Abu Ghazaleh, "Bethlehem Dispatch" [5]
Paul A. Silverstein, "Regimes of (Untruth): Conspiracy Theory and the Transnationalization of the Algerian Civil War" [6-11]
Hadani Ditmars, "Gaza Dispatch", [18]
Sheila Carapico, "NGOs, INGOs, GO-INGOs and DO-NGOs: Making Sense of Non-Governmental Organizations" [12-15]
Rema Hammami, "Palestinian NGOs Since Oslo: From NGO Politics to Social Movements?" [16-19]
Abdullah An-Naim [An Interview], "Problems of Dependency: Human Rights Organizations in the Arab World" [20-23]
Sara Roy, "The Transformation of Islamic NGOs in Palestine" [24-27]
Dan Connell, "The Importance of Self-Reliance: NGOs and Democracy Building in Eritrea" [28-33]
Julia Piner, "NGOs Dilemmas" [34-37]
Krista Masonis El-Gawhary, "Egyptian Advocacy NGOs: Catalysts for Social and Political Change" [38-41]
Joost Hilterman, "Al-Haq: The First Twenty Years" [42-44]

THE MIDDLE EAST, June 2000 (No.302)
Al J. Venter, "Algeria: A Nuclear Newcomer" [5-7]
Mariam Shahin, "Iraq: Where the Rich Get Poorer and the Poor Die" [9-10]
Alan George, "Trade Unionism: A Positive Force for Change" [11]
Jon Gorvett, "The Demise of Demirel" [12-13]
Lucy Jones, "Is the West Finding Favour in Central Asia?" [14-15]
Andrew Hammond, "Modest Divorce Law Reforms Cause Concern" [16-17]
Karen Thomas, "Mixed Messages from Manama" [18-20]
Anver Versi, "Special Report: Tunisia" [25-39]

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, Winter 2000 (Vol.54, No.2)
Elizabeth Fernea, "The Challenges for Middle Eastern Women in the 21st Century" [185-193]
Amatzia Baram, "The Effect of Iraqi Sanctions: Statistical Pitfalls and Responsibility" [194-223]
Paul Stevens, "Pipelines or Pipe Dreams? Lessons From the History of Arab Transit Pipelines" [224-241]
Ghanim Alnajjar, "The Challenges Facing Kuwaiti Democracy" [242-258]
Don Peretz and Gideon Doron, "Sectarian Politics and the Peace Process: The 1999 Israeli Elections" [259-273]

MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, April 2000 (Vol.36, No.2)
Martin Edelman, "The New Israeli Constitution" [1-27]
Rachel Elboim-Dror, "British Educational Politics in Palestine" [28-47]
Baruch Kimmerling, "The Formation of Palestinian Collective Identities: The Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" [48-81]
Irit Amit, "Economic and Zionist Ideological Perceptions: Private Initiative in Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s" [82-102]
Andrew B. Loewenstein, "'The Veiled Protectorate of Kowait': Liberalized Imperialism and British Efforts to Influence Kuwaiti Domestic Policy During the Reign of Sheikh Ahmad al-Jaber, 1938-50" [103-123]
Moshe Gammer, "Post-Soviet Central Asia and Post-Colonial Francophone Africa: Some Associations" [124-149]
Rami Ginat, "The Soviet Union and the Syrian Ba'th Regime: From Hesitation to Rapprochement" [150-171]
Meliha Altunisik, "The Turkish-Israeli Rapprochement in the Post-Cold War Era" [172-189]

MIDSTREAM, February/March 2000 (Vol.46, No.2)
David Littman, "Syria's Blood Libel Revival at the UN: 1991-2000" [2-8]
Paul Giniewski, "The Arab Exodus from Palestine (1947-1948): Whose Responsibility?" [22-26]

LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE, May 2000
Kamel Labidi, "Reappraising Bourgiba: Subversive Mourning in Tunisia" [*]
Henry Laurens, "Good Fences Make Good Neighbours: South Lebanon's Border Wars" [*]

LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE, June 2000
Ignacio Ramonet, "A Glimmer of Hope for the Middle East" [*]
Ghania Mouffok, "Remembering a Forgotten History: Amnesia in Algeria" [*]
Tariq Ramadan, "Who Speaks For Europe's Muslim's?" [*]
Lionel Panafit, "First for Islam in Belgium" [*]

THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 26, 2000
Danna Harman & Aluf Benn, "Junior League" [*]
Yossi Klein Halevi, "Aim Low" [*]

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, June 15, 2000 (Vol.67, No.10)
Sadik J. Al-Azm, "The View From Damascus" [*]

PEACE & CHANGE, April 2000 (Vol.25, No.2)
Donald S. Will, "Non-Racialism Versus Nationalism: Contrasting Solutions to Conflict in South Africa and Israel/Palestine" [255-264]

PEACE AND CONFLICT, 2000 (Vol.6, No.1)
Mohammed Abu-Nimer, "Peace Building in Postsettlement: Challenges for Israeli and Palestinian Peace Educators" [1-22]
Leila F. Dane, "Mentioning the Unmentionable: A Commentary on Abu-Nimer's Article" [23-26]

PEACE RESEARCH, March 2000 (Vol.37, No.2)
Etel Solingen, "The Multilateral Arab-Israeli Negotiations: Genesis, Institutionalization, Pause, Future" [167-188]
Hilde Henriksen Waage, "How Norway Became One of Israel's Best Friends" [189-212]

SAIS REVIEW, Winter-Spring (Vol.20, No.1)
Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen, "Trans-State Loyalties and Politics of Turks and Kurds in Western Europe" [23-38]
Uri Davis, "Who Is a Hebrew?" [107-116]

SECURITY DIALOGUE, March 2000 (Vol.31, No.1)
Dietrich Jung and Wolfango Piccoli, "The Turkish-Israeli Alignment: Paranoia or Pragmatism?" [91-104]
Jalil Roshandel, "Iran's Foreign and Security Policies: How the Decisionmaking Process Evolved" [105-118]

SLAVERY & ABOLITION, December 1999 (Vol.20, No.3)
Robert O. Collins, "Slavery in the Sudan in History" [69-95]

TURKISH STUDIES, Summer 2000 (Vol.1, No.1)
Bulent Aras, "Turkey's Policy in the Former Soviet South" [*]
Meltem Muftuler-Bac, "Through the Looking Glass: Turkey in Europe" [*]
Seviley Kahraman, "Rethinking Turkey-European Relations" [*]
Duygu Sezer, "Turkish-Russian" [*]
Lenore Martin, "Turkey's National Security in the Middle East" [*]
Ali Carkoglu, "The Geography of Turkey's National Elections" [*]
Frank Tachau, "Elections in Turkey" [*]
Nilufer Narli, "Civil-Military Relations in Turkey" [*]
Ozgul Erdemli, "Research Guide for Turkey" [*]
"Roundtable on Turkish Foreign Policy" [*]

URBAN STUDIES, April 2000 (Vol.37, No.4)
Ghazi Falah, Michael Hoy and Rakhal Sarker, "Co-existence in Selected Mixed Arab-Jewish Cities in Israel: By Choice or by Default?" [775-796]

THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY, Spring 2000 (Vol.23, No.2)
Patrick Smith, "The Indigenous and the Imported: Khatami's Iran" [35-54]
Eyal Zisser, "Clues to the Syrian Puzzle" [79-92]

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, February 2000 (Vol.14, No.1)
Muhammad F. Al-Rashed and Mohsen M. Sherif, "Water Resources in the GCC Countries: An Overview" [59-75]

WORLD AFFAIRS, Winter 2000 (Vol.162, No.3)
Gawdat Bahgat, "Iranian-Saudi Rapprochement: Prospects and Implications" [108-115]

WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, Spring 2000 (Vol.17, No.1)
Marvine Howe, "Morocco's Democratic Experience" [65-70]

Prepared by Marion Gliksberg, The Librarian, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.