CURRENT CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS
ON THE MIDDLE EAST

APRIL, 1998

Journal title, issue date, and issue number are immediately followed by Middle East-related articles, including author(s), title between quotes, and page numbers between brackets.


List of publications indexed in this issue:

ARABIES, Mars 1998

CIVIL SOCIETY, Jan. 1998 (Vol.7, No.73)

FOREIGN POLICY, Winter 1997

IJMES, Nov. 1997 (Vol.29, No.4)

IRAN BULLETIN, Winter 1998 (No.17)

ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY, Feb. 1998 (Vol.5, No.1)

ISRAEL AFFAIRS, Autumn 1997 (Vol.4, No.1)

ISRAEL STUDIES, Spring 1997 (Vol.2, No.1)

JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC JERUSALEM STUDIES, Winter 1997 (Vol.1, No.1)

THE JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES, Autumn 1997 (Vol.2, No.2)

JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES, Winter 1998 (Vol.27, No.2, Issue 106)

JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH, Jan. 1998 (Vol.35, No.1)

THE MIDDLE EAST, Feb. 1998 (No.275)

THE MIDDLE EAST, April 1998 (No.277)

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS JOURNAL, Summer/Fall 1997 (Vol.3, No.3-4)

MIDDLE EAST INSIGHT, Nov.-Dec. 1995 (Vol.12, No.1)

MIDDLE EAST INSIGHT, March-April 1998 (Vol.13, No.3)

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, Winter 1998 (Vol.52, No.1)

MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY, March 1998 (Vol.5, No.1)

MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, Jan. 1998 (Vol.34. No.1)

ORIENT, Sep. 1997 (Vol.38, Nr.3)

PALESTINE ECONOMIC PULSE, Jan.-Feb. 1998 (Vol.3, No.1)

PERCEPTIONS, Dec. 1997-Feb. 1998 (Vol.2, No.4)

STUDIES IN CONFLICT AND TERRORISM, (Vol.21, No.1)

THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY, Spring 1998 (Vol.21, No.2)

WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERN. FORUM, Sep.-Dec. 1997

(Vol.20, Nos.5/6)



PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES

ARABIES Mars 1998

Iran Special Section [20-36]

Irak - Dette Exterieure [36-44]


CIVIL SOCIETY Jan. 1998 (Vol.7, No.73)

Cross-Eyed Sociology in Egypt and the Arab World [12-18]


FOREIGN POLICY Winter 1997

Fawaz A. Gerges, "A View from the Middle East" [57-62]


INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Nov. 1997 (Vol.29, No.4)

Gayane Karen Merguerian and Afsaneh Najmabadi, "Zulaykha and Yusuf: Whose 'Best Story'?" [485-508]

Sussan Siavoshi, "Cultural Policies and the Islamic Republic: Cinema and Book Publication" [509-530]

Kamran Talattof, "Iranian Women's Literature: From Pre-Revolutionary Social Discourse to Post-Revolutionary Feminism" [531-558]

Nelida Fuccaro, "Ethnicity, State Formation, and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: The Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar" [559-580]

Senzil Nawid, "The State, the Clergy, and British Imperial Policy in Afghanistan during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries" [581-605]


IRAN BULLETIN Winter 1998 (No.17)

Where Does the Assembly for Expediency Fit? An Unelected Organ Gives More Power to Ayayolla Khamenei [9-11]

Leadership: Crisis Yesterday, Deadlock Tomorrow. We Are Today Seeing a Partial Replay of Nine Years Ago When Khomeini Desposed Ayatollah Montazeri [12-17]

The Condition of Intellectuals in Iran. Bagher Mome'ni Chronicles the Tragedy of the Thinker in Iranian History- Past and Present [18-21]

Islam and Modernism: Mohammad Reza Shalguni Continued Series on the Myth of Incompatibility of Islam and Modernism [22-23]

Aziz al-Azmeh in Conversation: Political Islamisms, the Labour Movement and Women [24-25]

Problems Facing a Women's Movement in Islamic Countries: Interview with Nawal El Saadawi [26-27]

Women in Prison - Then and Now: Jaleh Ahmadi on the Women who Went to Prison for their Views and the Women in Prison for Merely Being [28-33]

Portrayal of Women in Iranian Cinema: An Historical Overview by Shahla Lahiji [34-38]


ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY Feb. 1998 (Vol.5, No.1)

Nurit Tsafrir, "The Beginnings of the Hanafi School in Isfahan" [1-22]

Ya'akov Meron, "Forme et Substance en Droit Musulmane" [22-35]

Dror Ze'evi, "The Use of Ottoman Shari'a Court Records as a Source for Middle Eastern Social History: A Reappraisal" [35-57]

Ebrahim Moosa, "Shaykh Ahmad Shakir and the Adoption of a Scientifically-Based Lunar Calendar" [57-90]

Howard Federspiel, "Islamic Values, Law and Expectations in Contemporary Indonesia" [90-118]


ISRAEL AFFAIRS Autumn 1997 (Vol.4, No.1)

Hillel Frisch, "The Arab Vote: The Radicalization of Politicization?" [103-121]

Barry Rubin, "External Influences on the Israeli Elections" [149-167]

Sam Lehman-Wilzig, "The Media Campaign: The Negative Effects of Positive Campaigning" [167-187]


ISRAEL STUDIES Spring 1997 (Vol.2, No.1)


[Special Section: The War of Independence and Local Arab Populations]

Laila Parsons, "The Palestinian Druze in the 1947-1949 Arab-Israeli War" [72-94]

Arnon Golan, "The Transformation of Abandoned Arab Rural Areas" [94-111]


JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC JERUSALEM STUDIES Winter 1997 (Vol.1, No.1)

Karen Armstrong, "Sacred Space: The Holiness of Islamic Jerusalem" [5-20]

S.Abdallah Schleifer, "Jerusalem as Archetype of the Harmonious Islamic Urban Environment" [21-38]


THE JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES

Autumn 1997 (Vol.2, No.2)

Michel Brett, "Great Britain and Southern Morocco in the Nineteenth Century" [1-10]

David M. Hart, "The Berber Dahir of 1930 in Colonial Morocco: Then and Now (1930-1996)" [11-33]

Justin McGuinness, "Political Context and Professional Ideologies: French Urban Conservation Planning Transferred to the Medina of Tunis" [34-56]

Pascal R. Venier, "French Imperialism and Pre-colonial Rebellions in Eastern Morocco, 1903-1910" [57-67]

James Whidden, "Zaki Fahmi's Safwat Al-'asr: A Description of the Egyptian Elite and an Islamic Prescription for the Political Order" [68-82]


JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES

Winter 1998 (Vol. 27, No. 2, Issue 106)

Nathan Crystall, "The De-Arabization of West Jerusalem 1947-50" [5-22]

Sahar Huneidi, "Was Balfour Policy Reversible? The Colonial Office and Palestine, 1921-23" [23-42]

Rosemary Sayigh, "Palestinian Camp Women as Tellers of History" [42-59]

Mureed al-Barghouti, "Songs for a Country No Longer Known" [59-68]

Sadek Jalal al-Azm, "Trends in Arab Thought" [68-81] [Interview]

Benny Morris, "Refabricating 1948" [81-96] [Review Essay]


JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH

Jan. 1998 (Vol.35, No.1)

Hemda Ben-Yehuda and Shmuel Sandler, "Crisis Magnitude and Interstate Conflict: Changes in the Arab-Israel Dispute" [83-111]


THE MIDDLE EAST February 1998 (No.275)

Focus On Kuwait [23-27]

Islamic Banking Survey [27-31]

Middle East Banking [31-38]


THE MIDDLE EAST April 1998 (No.277)

Iraq's "Nearly" Bomb [4]

Peace Process in Peril [8]

UN Team up with the Taliban to End Opium Production [11]

Mossad in Crisis [14]

Survey on Saudi Arabia [21-33]

Qatar Survey [33-39]


MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS JOURNAL Summer/Fall 1997 (Vol.3, No.3-4)

[Special Section: Islam and the West on the Eve of the Third Millenium]

Hamid Gul, "The Encounter Between Islam and the West" [13-31]

Louis J. Cantori, "The Ascendancy of Conservative Islam and the Liberal Crusade: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East" [31-37]

Fathi Osman, "Islam, Terrorism and Western Misapprehension" [37-47]

Nader A. Hashemi, "From the Red Menace to the Green Peril: The Enduring Legacy of the Cold War and its Links to Political Islam" [47-61]

Robert H. Pelletreau, "It's Time to Talk" [61-67]

Gary Sick, "Dual Containment: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed?" [67-79]

Arthur L. Lowrie, "American Policy and the Islamic Movement: An Interview" [79-93]

[Special Section: New Frontiers]

Robert D. Crane, "World Ijtihad Council: A Key to Global Leadership in the Next Century" [95-119]

Anisa Abd el Fattah, "The Role of Muslim American Leadership in Domestic and Universal Reform Movements" [119-125] [The Holy Land]

Ahmed Yassin, "Conditions for a Permanent Cease-Fire" [129-135]

Khaled al-Hroub, "Hamas' Approach to Ideology and International Relations" [135-147]

Abdullah al-Sa'afin, "Mosques, Resistance, and Political Communication in Palestine" [147-157]

Bassam Zubaidi, "The Reality of Palestinian Politics: Potentials and Purviews" [157-165]

Yahya Musa, "Khalas: The Other Face of Hamas Politics: An Interview" [165-171]

Anthony T. Sullivan, "Jerusalem: Reality, Possibilities, Dreams" [171-185]

[Special Section: Islamist Movements]

Hassan al-Turabi, "Assessing the Succes of the Islamic Movement in the Sudan: An Interview" [191-203]

Abdelhamid Brahimi, "Algeria's Future: The Necessity for a Peaceful Commitment" [203-217]

Mustafa Ramid, "The Islamic Movement in Morocco: Its Reality and Content" [217-223]

Mohammed Yatin, "The Unification Experience in Morocco" [223-239]

Bashir M. Nafi, "Islam, the Army and Democracy in Modern Turkey" [239-261]

Najib Ghadbian, "Syria's Islamists: Can They Be Integrated? An Interview" [261-267]


MIDDLE EAST INSIGHT Nov.-Dec. 1995 (Vol.12, No.1)

Aaron David Miller, "The Arab-Israeli Peace Process" [8-14]

Interview With President William J. Clinton [15-17]

Kenneth W. Stein, "A Changing of the Guard in Israel" [18-23]

Kenneth Katzman, "Beyond Dual Containment" [24-29]

Don North, "Eye of the Storm" (part one) [36-40]

The Sultanate of Oman 25 Years of Progress and Development [41-47]

Eric Hooglund, "2020: Oman Charts its Next 25 Years" [48-57]

Interview with Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said [58-61]

David Dunford, "The US and Oman" [62-64]

Richard Eason, "Oman" [65-68]

Stewart W. Holliday, "Oman at the Crossroads" [69-71]

Michael Lynk, "Oman" [72-76]


MIDDLE EAST INSIGHT March-April 1998 (Vol.13, No.3)

Peter W.Rodman, "America at the Helm" [4-6]

"The Indispensible Component" [Interview with Amb. Robert H.Pelletreau,Jr.][7-9]

"U.S. as Guarantor: A Congressional Perspective" [Interview With Sen. John McCain] [10-11]

Kenneth W.Stein, "Assad: Only When Ready" [12-13]

John V.Whitbeck, "Palestinian Statehood: Drop the Veil" [14-16]

George A.Nader, "Iran: Inadequacy of Labels" [17-18]

[Special Section: Policy Symposium][19]

Timothy J.Sullivan, "Bold Vision, Historic Ties" [20]

James A.Bill, "Untangling the Web" [21-23]

Amb. Martin S.Indyk, "The U.S.,the Gulf and Peace" [Keynote Address] [24-29]

Panel Discussion with Dore Gold, Hasan Abdel Rahman, and Aaron David Miller, "America, Israel, the Palestinians, and Peace" [30-38]

Panel Discussion with Amb. Mohamad Chatah, and Amb. Walid Al-Moualem, "America, Syria, Lebanon, and Peace" [39-45]

Ross-Moualem, "A Unique Rapport" [46-47]

Douglas Durand Waldron III, "Facilitating Middle East Peace" [48]

Gerald Rockford Weitz, "Peace-Building at Grassroots Level" [49]

[Special Section: Future Leaders]

Jack Borgenicht, "Educating for Peace" [50]

Jay K.Footlik, "Another Israeli-Arab Peace Process" [51-52]

Meredith Katz, "Leading the Leaders" [53-55]


MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL Winter 1998 (Vol.52, No.1)

Charles W. Maynes, "The Middle East in the Twenty-First Century"[9-16]

Steven C. Fairbanks, "Theocracy versus Democracy: Iran Considers Political Parties"[17-31]

Malik Mufti, "Daring and Caution in Turkish Foreign Policy"[32-50]

Jon B. Alterman "American Aid to Egypt in the 1950s: From Hope to Hostility"[51-69]

Marc J. O'Reilly "Omnibalancing: Oman Confronts an Uncertain Future" [70-84]


MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY March 1998 (Vol.5, No.1)

Barry Rubin, "Who Will Succeed Arafat?"[3-10]

Muhammad Mugraby, "Lebanon, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary"[11-18]

Walid Phares, "The Sudanese Battle for American Opinion"[19-22]

Walid Phares, "U.S. Sanctions Order"[23-32]

Michael Gunter, "Turkey and Iran Face Off in Kurdistan"[33-40]

Hilal Kashan, "History's Burden"[41-48]

Gideon M. Kressel, "The Desert's Burden"[49-58]

Sam Brownback, "Foreign Problems Mostly Concern the Middle East"[59-68]

Ahmad Yusuf, "Hamas Is a Charitable Organization"[69-81]


MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES Jan. 1998 (Vol.34, No.1)

Chris B. Rooney, "The International Significance of British Naval Missions to the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1914"[1-29]

Bulent Gokay, "The Battle for Baku, May-September 1918: A Peculiar Episode in the History of the Caucasus"[30-50]

Svante E. Cornell, "Turkey and the Conflict in Nagorno Karabakh: A Delicate Balance"[51-72]

Robert Cossaboom and Gary Leiser, "Adana Station, 1943-45:Prelude to the Post-war American Military Presence in Turkey"[73-86]

Fatma Al-Sayegh, "Merchants' Role in a Changing Society: The Case of Dubai, 1900-90"[87-102]

Joshua Teitebaum, "Sharif Husayn ibn Ali and the Hashemite Vision of the Post-Ottoman Order: from Chieftaincy to Suzerainty"[103-122]

Alexander Blich, "Israel and the Refugee Problem: From Exodus to Resettlement, 1948-52"[123-147]

Meir Litvak, "The Islamization of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Case of Hamas"[148-163]

Rosa I.M.El-Eini, "Trade Agreements and the Continuation of Tariff Protection Policy in Mandate Palestine in the 1930's" [164-191]


ORIENT Sept. 1997 (Vol.38, Nr.3)

Arnette Junemann, "The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership at its End? Results of the Second Mediterranean Conference of Malta [465-477]

Munir D. Ahmed, "Armed Forces and Politics in Pakistan" [477-493]

Maurus Reinkowski, "National Identity in Lebanon Since 1990" [493-517]

Uwe Simson, "Samuel P. Huntington, Islam and Us" [517-535]

Katajun Amirpur, "Reforming the Religious Academies - Revolutionary Establishment vs. Religious Enlightenment" [535-559]


PALESTINE ECONOMIC PULSE Jan.-Feb. 1998 (Vol.3, No.1)

Development: Bethlehem 2000, POP, NGO, Fund and Research [2-8]

Private Sector: Jerusalem Hotels, Industrial Info., & APIC [9-13]

Banking and Finance: Financing Tourism [14]

Economic Diary: Recent Economic Events [15-16]

Feature: The Dead Sea is Dying [17-18]


PERCEPTIONS Dec.97-Feb.98 (Vol.2, No.4)

Crown Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, "The Elusive Peace"[5-7]

Patrick Clawson, "Iran and Caspian Basin Oil and Gas"[17-27]

Orhan Guvenen, "The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Society"[28-45]

Bozkurt Guvenc, "Secular Trends and Turkish Identity"[46-72]

Roberto Aliboni, "Confidence Building, Conflict Prevention and Arms Control in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership"[73-86]

Sean Boyne, "Arguments in Favour of Turkey's Continuing Support for Operation Northern Watch"[87-91]

Ahmet Davutoglu, "The Clash of Interests, an Explanation of the World (Dis)Order"[92-121]

Ali Fuat Borovali, "Post Modernity, Multiculturalism and Ex-Imperial Hinterland: Habsburg and Ottoman Legacies Revisited" [122-134]


STUDIES IN CONFLICT AND TERRORISM (Vol.21, No.1)

Louis Rene Beres, "Israel, the Peace Process, and Nuclear Terrorism: Realizing the Linkages"[59-87]


THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY Spring 1998 (Vol.21, No.2)

[Special Section: The Middle East Confronts the Millenium]

Milton Viorst, "The Shackles on the Arab Mind"[163-177]

Max Rodenbeck, "Is Islamism Losing Its Thunder?"[177-195]

Gary Sick, "The Coming Crisis In the Persian Gulf"[195-215]


WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM Sep.-Dec. 1997 (Vol.20, Nos.5/6)

Nabila Espanioly, "Violence Against Women: a Palestinian Woman's Perspective: Personal is Political"[587-593]