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Abu Musab Al-Suri's Jihad Concept

By Philipp Holltmann
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2009

Paper, 210 pages, $16.25 / NIS 65.00, ISBN: 978-965-224-084-2.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity

By Samuel Helfont
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2009

Paper, 162 pages, $14.95 / NIS 60.00,ISBN: 978-965-224-085-9.

מלחמות הדמוקרטיה: המערב והערבים מנפילת הקומוניזם ועד המלחמה בעיראק

The Wars of Democracy: The West and the Arabs from the Fall of Communism to the War in Iraq  (Hebrew)

Edited by Tamar Yegnes
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2008


Paper, 322 pages, $35.95 / NIS125, ISBN: 978-965-224-082-8

בין סונה לשיעה: יחסי הכוחות המשתנים

Sunna and Shi'a: The Changing Balance of Power (Hebrew)

Edited by Tamar Yegnes
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2008


Paper, 162 pages, $18.95 / NIS65, ISBN: 978-965-224-081-1

Turkey and Israel: A Comparative Analysis: Conference Proceedings

By Asher Susser
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2008

These are the proceedings of a conference held in April 2007 in the framework of the Center’s Suleyman Demirel Program for Contemporary Turkish Studies. Bringing together a select group of Turkish and Israeli scholars, the conference dealt with four main themes: Nationalism, Secularism, Religion and State; the Media Revolution; Turkey, Israel and the Middle East; and finally, Israel, Turkey and the West. Invariably, the presentations in the different fields pointed to a wide range of common denominators between the two countries. Turkey and Israel, the successors to a long tradition of intimate relations between the Jews and the Ottoman Empire, also share a historical and complex relationship with Europe. Today, these two key non-Arab powers of the Middle East share a web of common interests and some differences too.


Paper, 118 pages, $8.95 / NIS35, ISBN: 978-965-224-080-4

Challenges to the Cohesion of the Arab State

By Asher Susser
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2008

The system by which the Middle East is divided into separate states is not self-evident. It is largely an artificial, colonial construct that emulates the European state order, whereby territories with defined borders, contain predominately homogeneous peoples, comprised of inhabitants sharing a common language, such as the French in France, or the Germans in Germany. In practice, none of the states in the Arab Middle East fits this bill. In recent years, especially after the US invasion of Iraq, a pervasive sense of uncertainty has gripped the capitals of the Middle East in regard to the continued stability of the region’s state order. The crushing of Iraq has sent shockwaves throughout the Arab East. The relative weakness of the Arab state system, the spread of radical Islam, and the reassertion of primordial sub-state identities threaten to undermine the cohesion of some key Arab states. How are they coping with these challenges? To what extent are their efforts succeeding? These are the crucial questions that this compendium seeks to examine.


Hardcover, 264 pp., $35.95 / NIS125, ISBN: 978-965-224-079-8

Culture and Society in Modern Turkey: Conference Proceeding

Edited by Asher Susser
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2007

These are the proceedings of a conference held in May 2006 in the framework of the Center’s Suleyman Demirel Program for Contemporary Turkish Studies. Bringing together a select group of scholars mainly from Turkey, but also from the United States and Israel, the conference dealt with cultural developments in the Turkish Republic with special reference to literature, the media and popular culture, music and the cinema. A recurring theme in all the presentations was the remarkably striking interrelationship between culture and politics, whether in regard to the efforts of the Kemalist Republic to shape a new modern Turkish culture, detached from its Ottoman heritage, or the impact of domestic political liberalization after the Second World War on all forms of cultural expression, from literature to the cinema and from television to Pop music.

Paper, 116 pages, $8.95 / NIS35, ISBN: 978-965-224-077-4

תורכיה: העבר העות'מאני וההווה הרפובליקני

Turkey: The Ottoman Past and the Republican Present (Hebrew)

Edited by Michael Winter and Miri Sheffer
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center, 2007


Hardcover, 344 pages, $24.95 / NIS88, ISBN: 978-965-224-075-0

The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics

Edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwiney
Published by University Press of Florida, 2007

The twelve chapters in this volume, written by both veteran and up-and-coming scholars from a variety of disciplines and national origins, seek to elucidate and analyze the various factors and issues confronting Maghribi states and societies, primarily Algeria amd Morocco, with reference also to Tunisia, the third core Magribi state. The focus of the chapters is overwhelmingly from within, against the background of these countries’ often tortured recent histories. The main themes are the intertwining of issues centering on identity, religion, and politics half a century after the Maghribi states attained independence from colonial rule. Taken as a whole, the volume continues the work of the important collected studies on Maghribi affairs published between1993 and 2000 and in 2003. Moreover, it breaks new ground in a number of areas, particularly with regard to the Berber dimension of contemporary North African society and politics, as well as the larger questions of history, memory, and national identity.


Hardcover, 278 pages, $45.95 / NIS160, ISBN: 978-0-81303-142-2

Commanding Syria: Bashar al-Asad and the First Years in Power

By Eyal Zisser
Published by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2007

This is the first major work on Bashar al-Asad. It explains his emergence to power from the Byzantine manoeuverings of Asad family politics. It assesses the durability of Hafis’s legacy, including the persistent influence of the old-power brokers, the effectiveness of Bashar’s attempts to move away from his father’s shadow, and the prospects for reform in Syria. It examines the key events of Bashar’s Presidency, the so called ‘Damascus Spring’, the decision not to support America’s second war with Iraq in 2003, and the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri, and puts them into historical context. Above all, Commanding Syria evaluates Bashar’s continuing hold on power following Syria’s humiliating retreat from Lebanon in Spring 2005 and the aggressive American drive to impose democracy in the Middle East.


Hardcover, 230 pages, $71.95 / NIS250 ISBN: 978-1-84511-153-3

Women in Morocco: Participation in the Workforce as an Avenue of Social Mobility

By Rachel Alpert
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center


Paper, 112 pages, $8.95, ISBN: 978-965-224-074-3, 965-224-074-5

המהפכה הירוקה: הפרופיל החברתי של חמאס

The Green Revolution: The Social Profile of Hamas (Hebrew)

By Michael Milshtein
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center


Paper, 252 pages, $24.95, ISBN: 978-965-224-078-1

המיעוט הערבי בישראל והבחירות לכנסת ה- 17

The Arab Minority in Israel and the 17th Knesset Elections

Edited by Elie Rekhess
Published by
the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at The Moshe Dayan Center


Paper, 112 pages, $12.95, ISBN: 965-90773-9-4

Middle Eastern Societies and the West

Edited by Meir Litvak 
Published by The Moshe Dayan Center


Hardcover,320 pages, $24.95, ISBN: 965-224-073-7

Turkish-Israeli Relations in a Trans-Atlantic Context

Conference Proceedings
Editors: Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
and Asher Susser

FULL TEXT
Published by the Moshe Dayan Center
paper, 132 pages, $7, ISBN: 965-224-067-2

Turkey: Between the European Union and the Middle East

Symposium Proceedings
FULL TEXT
In Memory of Professor
Aryeh Shmuelevitz

Published by the Moshe Dayan Center
paper, 68 pages, ISBN: 965-224-072-9

The Middle East: The impact of Generational Change

Published by the Moshe Dayan Center

(Translated from Hebrew)

FULL TEXT

Paper, 174 pp., ISBN: 965-224-071-0

Turkey's Foreign and Domestic Policy Agenda

Conference Proceedings

Published by the Moshe Dayan Center

paper, 60 pages, $8.00, ISBN: 965-224-065-6

Madrasa: Education, Religion and State in the Middle East (hebrew)

Published by the Moshe Dayan Center

Hardcover, 390 pages, $18.95, ISBN:965-224-062-1

In the Name of the Father
Bashar al-Asad’s First Years in Power

By Eyal Zisser

Published by Tel Aviv University Press

Paper, 327 pp., $18.95 ISBN: 965-7241-08-1

The Turkish-Israeli Relationship
Changing Ties of Middle Eastern Outsiders

By Ofra Bengio
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
Turkey and Israel are two of the most important countries in the Middle East, but are also outsiders to the region for political and cultural reasons. In her latest book, Senior Fellow Dr. Ofra Bengio examines the historic, geo-strategic and political-cultural roots of the Turkish-Israeli relationship from the 1950s until today.

Hardcover, 236 pp., $60.00 ISBN: 1-4039-6589-7

בין מהפכה למדינה
הפתח והרשות הפלסטינית

Between Revolution
and Statehood

Fatah and the Palestinian Aut
hority
FULL TEXT
(The Dayan Center Papers, Number 133)
By Michael Milshtein

Paper, 204 pp., $14.95 ISBN: 965-224-058-3

Economic and Demographic Developments
in the Middle East and North Africa, 1980-2000
(Data and Analysis Series)
By Paul Rivlin and Yitzhak Gal
Published by the Moshe Dayan Center

The study places Middle Eastern economic and demographic trends in their global context. The rate of population growth declined during the 1980s and 1990s, but the number of people of working age and the number entering the labor market each year grew rapidly. Theses trends will continue over the next ten to twenty years, posing serious challenges, given that economic growth has been below expectations.

Paper, 64 pp., $7.00 ISBN: 965-224-061-3

 נשים במזרח התיכון
בין מסורת לשינוי

Women in the Middle East
Between Tradition and Change
FULL TEXT
(The Dayan Center Papers, Number 134)
By Ofra Bengio

Paper, 192 pp., $14.95 ISBN: 965-224-060-5

 המגרב
פוליטיקה, חברה, כלכלה

The Maghrib
Politics, Society, Economy


(
The Dayan Center Papers, Number 123)
Edited by Yehudit Ronen


Paper, 96 pp., $6.00 ISBN: 965-224-033-8

פניה של סוריה
חברה, משטר ומדינה

Faces of Syria
Society, Regime and State

By Eyal Zisser

Published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

 

Paper, 346 pp., $19.95 ISBN: 965-02-0203-X


FULL TEXT

Paper, 54 pp, $7.00 ISBN: 965-224-063-X

Middle East Contemporary Survey Vol. XXIV: 2000

Edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Published by the Moshe Dayan Center

685 pp., w/maps, tables, appendices, index.

Hardcover, $99.00, ISBN: 965-224-054-0

Past volumes in this series are available through the Moshe Dayan Center.

Holier Than Thou
Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Opposition

By Joshua Teitelbaum
Published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The Saudi champions of Islam face a homegrown Islamic opposition.  Holier Than Thou analyzes the history of the religious establishment in Saudi Arabia from the kingdom’s beginnings to Usama Bin Ladin.  Joshua Teitelbaum sheds new light on the battle between the bearers of Wahhabi orthodoxy and their radical opponents and offers an assessment for Saudi-Islamist relations after King Fahd.

Paper, 123 pp., $19.95 ISBN: O-944029-35-3

Jordan
Case Study of a Pivotal State

By Asher Susser
Published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Jordan is the geopolitical pivot of the Arab world.  Political winds and demographic changes cause it to tip – but, so far, not to overturn.  Asher Susser analyzes Jordan’s relations with the Arab world, the Gulf states, the West, and Israel, from Jordan’s creation in 1921 under Abdallah I throught he reign and death of King Hussein and the transition to his son, Abdallah II.

Paper, 123 pp., $19.95  ISBN: 0-944029-37-X

The Rise and Fall of the Hashimite Kingdom of Arabia

By Joshua Teitelbaum
Published by Hurst and Company

The Hashimite Kingdom of Arabia was forged in the crucible of the Arab Revolt (with which T.E. Lawrence was associated) in 1916, during the First World War. Its leader, Sharif Husayn ibn `Ali, who claimed descent from the Prophet, struggled to put together a tribal confederacy based on British funding and a new supra-identity, Arabism. He proclaimed himself “king of the Arab countries,” although the Allies recognized him only as king of the Hijaz. This study examines Husayn's efforts at state formation, efforts that eventually failed. The Sharif dreamed of replacing the Ottoman Empire with an Arab one that went beyond the confines of his homeland, the Hijaz, with its holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He would be the Caliph. But blinded by his ambitions, he paid little attention to the essential task of consolidating his rule at home. His nemesis, Ibn Saud, exploited Husayn's weaknesses, finally defeating him in 1925. Husayn spent most of the rest of his life in distinctly non-Arab Cyprus, until the British let him travel to Amman, to die, in 1931.

Hardcover, 310 pp., $40.00, ISBN: 1-85065-4603

Asad's Legacy: Syria in Transition

asadslegacyBy Eyal Zisser
Published by Hurst & Company

This in-depth study examines Syria's political and economic fortunes over the last decade of the 20th century in the face of changing domestic and regional circumstances.  With Asad now gone and his son Bashar a rather unknown quantity, Zisser's analysis is particularly timely.


Paperback, 218 pp., $25.00 ISBN 1-85065-450-6

Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity
Edited by Joseph Kostiner
Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers

This collected volume analyzes the enduring role of monarchies in Middle Eastern politics. Thematic essays examine on the origins of Middle Eastern monarchies, possible explanations of their longevity, and the problems they face today. Case studies include Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Kuwait, alongside retrospective analyses of monarchies which failed. Included are articles by Lisa Anderson, Ami Ayalon, Gabriel Ben-Dor, F. Gregory Gause III, Fred Halliday, Joseph Kechichian, Joseph Kostiner, Gudrun Krämer, Rémy Leveau, Bernard Lewis, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, David Menashri, Uzi Rabi, Asher Susser, Joshua Teitelbaum, and Onn Winckler. The volume originated in a Dayan Center conference.

Hardcover, 344 pp., $59.95 ISBN 1-55587-862-8

Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence
By Eyal Zisser
Published by I.B. Tauris

Zisser’s work is a careful study of the presidency of Lebanon’s first post-independence president, Bishara al-Khuri. Was Khuri a brilliant politician who laid the durable foundations of Lebanese independence, assuring country’s distinct character and existence to this day? Or did his methods sow the seeds of civil war? Zisser offer’s a balanced account of Khuri and his controversial legacy.

Hardcover, 299 pp., $59.50 ISBN: 1-86064-537-2

Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World
By Paul Rivlin
Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers

The wide disparities in the economies of the Arab world are not only the result of diverse geography.  They reflect the outcomes of different policies.  Economist Paul Rivlin explores the Arab debate over growth, rent, and the struggle of interest groups.  Special attention is devoted to the stabilization and structural adjustment policies of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Syria, and the controversial role of the IMF and World Bank.

Hardcover, 256 pp., $49.95 ISBN: 1-55587-932-2
The Jewish Discovery of Islam
Edited by Martin Kramer

Published by the Moshe Dayan Center

"Jewish scholars," writes Bernard Lewis, "were among the first who attempted to present Islam to European readers as Muslims themselves see it and to stress, to recognize, and indeed sometimes to romanticize the merits and achievements of Muslim civilization in its great days." Lewis's premise is explored in ten studies prepared in honor of his eightieth birthday. Contributors include Benjamin Braude, Lawrence I. Conrad, Joel L. Kraemer, Martin Kramer, Jacob M. Landau, Jacob Lassner, the late Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Minna Rozen, Shulamit Sela, and David Wasserstein.

Hardcover, 311pp., $25.00 ISBN: 965-224-040-0

Middle Eastern Lectures Number 3 (1999) 
Edited by Martin Kramer ME3 
 

Middle Eastern Lectures is a biennial publication of the Moshe Dayan Center, which serves to disseminate outstanding lectures delivered by visitors to the Center. Number Three (1999) includes lectures by Fred  Halliday on Middle Eastern nationalisms, Farhad Kazemi and  Olivier Roy on Khatami’s election, Johannes J.G. Jansen on  comparing fundamentalisms, and Gudrun Kramer on applying  Islamic law. Also included are the lectures from the Center's  Special Series on Orientalism: Alastair Hamilton on "Western  Attitudes to Islam in the Enlightenment," Robert Irwin on  "Oriental Discourses in Orientalism," and John MacKenzie on  "Orientalism: A Revisionist View." 

Paper, 136pp., $7.50 ISBN: 965-224-036-2 

Also available: 
Middle Eastern Lectures Number One (1995). Paper, 133 pp., $12.95 ISBN: 965-224-017-6  SOLD OUT
Middle Eastern Lectures Number Two (1997). Paper, 103pp., $6.00 ISBN: 965-224-023-0
Special price for MEL Two and Three: $11.00

Middle East Contemporary Survey Vol. XXIII: 1999 
Edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman 
Published by the Moshe Dayan Center 

The new volume of the Middle East Contemporary Survey is the twenty-third in a series that has become the standard reference work on a complex and rapidly changing part of the world. The volume covers 1999, with chapters on regional, Arab-Israeli, and Islamic affairs, and detailed country-by-country surveys of all the Arab states, Israel, Turkey, and Iran.

"One of the best regular guides to the politics and international relations of the region that money can buy - packed with data, analysis and insight." - British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Journal.

732 pp., w/maps, tables, appendixes, index. Hardcover, $99.00.
ISBN: 965-224-049-4   ISSN: 0163-5476

Past volumes in this series are available through the Moshe Dayan Center. 

MECS on CD: Iraq 1976-1999
Edited by Ofra Bengio
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Iraq is a country of significant weight in the Middle East. Its policies have affected the entire region as well as the international arena. Iraq's recent history of constant conflicts and wars both provided it a crucial role in the Middle East but also helped isolate it. For the last twenty-three  years, Iraqi developments have been closely documented and analyzed in the Middle East Contemporary Survey (MECS). Now it is all at your fingertips - and on your computer screen - in the new CD, Iraq 1976-1999.

$24.95 (one user). Updates planned.

MECS on CD: Egypt 1976-1999
Edited by Ami Ayalon

CD-label-s.jpg (39146 bytes)MECS on CD: Egypt 1976-1999 includes all the annual Middle East Contemporary Survey (MECS) chapters on Egypt going back twenty-three years, as well as other essays focusing on Egypt's economy, demography and engagement in the Middle East peace process. This is the most exhaustive account anywhere of Egyptian contemporary political, social, cultural and economic affairs. The MECS chapters have been stored for instant retrieval in their original format. What you see on the screen is a precise rendition of the printed page. The .pdf format is PC- and Mac-compatible, and allows the reader to search for names, terms, and concepts throughout the entire CD. 

$19.95 (one user). Updates planned.

Minorities and the State in the Arab World 
Edited by Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor 
Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers

This collected volume examines questions of ethnicity and identity in light of the recent expansion of political participation in the Arab world. The book offers a comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries, focussing on the strategic political choices made by minorities, majorities, and regimes in power. The contributors also point to probable future developments in majority-minority relations in the region. Included are studies by: Gabriel Ben-Dor, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Ami Ayalon, Yehudit Ronen, Asher Susser, Meir Zamir, Eyal Zisser, Ofra Bengio, and Uzi Rabi and Joseph Kostiner.
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Hardcover, 223 pp., $45.00 ISBN: 1-55587-647-1

Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
By Ofra Bengio
Published by Oxford University Press

Despite the West's preoccupation with the regime of Saddam Hussein, its ethos has remained an enigma. Ofra Bengio seeks to unravel the mystery through an analysis of the political discourse of Saddam, the Iraqi media, and Iraqi official publications. Each arm of the regime systematically manipulates language, religion, and history to serve Saddam's ends. Saddam's Word is a window on Saddam's own logic, and the sophisticated methods by which he uses language to instill ideology-and fear-in the Iraqi people. "The most important book on Baathi Iraq since Kanan Makiya's Republic of Fear." - Middle East Policy

Hardcover, 266 pp., $45.00 ISBN: 0-19-511439-6

Arab Awakening & Islamic Revival 
book  (8564 bytes)By Martin Kramer 
Published by Transaction Publishers 

Over the past decade, Arab nationalism has lost its grip on the imagination of a new generation, and Islam, as an ideology has spread across the region. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival is a critical assessment of the contradictions of Arab nationalism and Islamism, and the misrepresentation of both in the West. 

"These essays are models of insight and learning , both documenting the attractions of Arab nationalist and Islamist ideas to several generations of Middle Easterners and explaining why the ideals have significantly diverged from reality."  James Piscatori 

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Hardcover, 297pp., $25.00 ISBN: 1-56000-272-7 

Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq:
The Ulama of Najaf and Karbala
By Meir Litvak
Published by Cambridge University Press

Najaf and Karbala, two sacred Shi'i shrine cities in Iraq, emerged during the nineteenth century as the most important centers of Shi'i learning and religious leadership. Tracing the evolution of this preeminence, Meir Litvak explores the determinants of social status among the ulama, the role of patronage in the relations between master and disciple, the structure and financing of learning, and problems of ethnicity. During this period, the ulama became communal and political leaders, interacting with Ottoman Baghdad and Qajar Iran, and setting crucial precedents for ulama activism in the twentieth century.

Hardcover, 265pp., $60.00 ISBN: 0-521-62356-1 

Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement
(The Dayan Center Papers, Number 127)
By Meir Hatina

The Islamic Jihad, established in the Gaza Strip in 1981, became famous for its violent acts against Israeli targets during the mid-1980s. Although smaller than Hamas—the standard-bearer of Palestinian Islam—the Islamic Jihad played a key role in turning faith into a theology of liberation dedicated to uprooting the Israeli occupation. This study traces the rise of the Islamic Jihad, its ideological platform, and its relations with other political forces both within and outside the Palestinian arena.

Paper, 180pp., $12.95 ISBN: 965-224-048-6 

A Drive to Israel: An Egyptian Meets His Neighbors
(The Dayan Center Papers, Number 128)
By Ali Salem
Translated by Robert J. Silverman
This is the odyssey of the popular Egyptian humorist and playwright, Ali Salem, translated for the first time from Arabic into English by Robert Silverman. This travelogue is an engaging look at an Egyptian intellectual’s direct impressions of Israel, and the reactions of his Egyptian colleagues to his adventure. Salem’s account is illuminating, provocative, and full of tongue-in-cheek humor.

Paper, 120 pp., $12.95 ISBN: 965-224-050-8 

The Remaking of Saudi Arabia 
Arab.jpg (13212 bytes)The Struggle between King Sa'ud and Crown Prince Faysal, 1953-1962 (The Dayan Center Papers, Number 121) 

By Sarah Yizraeli 

In the middle of this century, a crucial debate took place within the royal family of Saudia Arabia, between King Sa'ud and Crown Prince Faysal. When the dust had settled, the kingdom had been remade into a modern state, even as the grip of the royal family tightened. Saudi stability still rests upon the foundations laid in that crucial decade. This book offers a comprehensive and documented analysis of the royal debate, which ended in the transformation of the kingdom from a tribal confederation into a nation-state. 
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Paper, 220pp., $5.00 ISBN: 965-224-026-5
 

The Islamism Debate 
book2.jpg (5347 bytes)(The Dayan Center Papers, Number 120) 
Edited by Martin Kramer 

Nine authors -- leading protagonists in the Islamism debate from the United States, France, Britain, and Israel -- address the controversial questions that surround political Islam. Is it driven by religious fervor, social protest, or nationalist xenophobia? Is the rise of Islamism a threat to stability, tolerance, and order? Or is it the first step towards reform, participation, and democratization? Does repression of Islamists radicalize or tame them? are Islamists in power guided by their ideals or interests? Should the governments of the West base their policy on human rights or realpolitik? Contributors to the book include Daniel Brumberg, François Burgat, Graham E. Fuller, Martin Kramer, Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Daniel Pipes, Olivier Roy, Robert Satloff and Claire Spencer. 

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Paper, 180pp., $9.00 ISBN: 965-224-024-9 

An Index of the Shwadran Collection
(Teaching and Research Aids Series)
Compiled by Dorit Paret

The Shwadran Collection, transferred to the Center by Prof. Benjamin Shwadran 30 years ago, is comprised of 45 linear meters of documents and press clippings which he collected while heading the research department of the American Zionist Emergency Council (1940s) and as editor of Middle Eastern Affairs (1950-63).

Paper, 70 pp., $5.00 ISBN 965-224-046-X

Population Growth, Migration and Socio-Demographic Policies in Qatar
(Data and Analysis Series)
By Onn Winckler

An analysis of demographic developments in sparsely populated Qatar, as the government comes to terms with the challenge of foreign labor and unstable oil prices.

Paper, 52 pp., $5.00 ISBN 965-224-045-1

The Islamization of Palestinian Identity: The Case of Hamas 
(Data and Analysis Series) 
By Meir Litvak 

In early 1996, Hamas cut a swath of terror through the Israeli political landscape. Through a series of devastating suicide bombings, this Palestinian Islamic movement magnified the question-mark beside the peace process, and forced difficult choices on Israelis and Palestinians alike. In this paper, Meir Litvak examines the symbols of Islam and the rhetoric of Palestinian nationalism in Hamas. 

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Paper, 24pp., $5.00 ISBN: 965-224-020-6
 

The Muslim Brotherhood  in Jordan
(Data and Analysis Series) 
By Shmuel Bar  
 
This detailed study traces the development of the Brotherhood in Jordan from its establishment in 1945 to its present-day immersion in Jordan's parliamentary politics. The Muslim Brotherhood's infrastructure in the mosques, the Qur'anic schools and the universities has given it a ready-made political base. In recent years, Islamist opposition to Jordan's peace accord with Israel has strained the movement's relations with the monarchy. While the King presently holds the Muslim Brotherhood in check, the movement could pose a challenge to the royal family in a time of transition. 

Paper, 64 pp., $6.50, ISBN: 965-224-030-3 

Demographic Developments and Population Policies in Kuwait
(Data and Analysis Series) 
By Onn Winckler 

This study is a close consideration of the impact of oil wealth, the two Gulf wars, the Iraqi occupation, the reconstruction process, and government policy on the demographic composition of the Kuwaiti city-state. Winckler's research points to trends that are likely to determine the future not only of Kuwait, but of all the smaller Gulf states, which must somehow root their identity in rapidly changing demographic realities. 

Paper, 54 pp., $8.00 ISBN 965-224-031-1

Egypt's Quest for Cultural Orientation
(Data and Analysis Series)
By Ami Ayalon

The encounter between religious militancy and the state has dominated Egyptian public life for over two decades. Underlying the sometimes violent struggle is a debate over rival cultural orientations. This study follows the most recent episodes in this confrontation, in present-day Egyptian politics, society, and culture, and sets them in historical context.

Paper, 48 pp., $6.00 ISBN 965-224-041-9

Turkey's Experiment in Islamist Government
(Data and Analysis Series)
By Aryeh Shmuelevitz

For eleven months, beginning in July 1996, Turkey was governed by a coalition led by the Islamist Welfare (Refah) Party. Its leader, Necmettin Erbakan, became prime minister, in a development that sent shockwaves through the Turkish polity. This study considers the power struggle that developed between Erbakan and the military over questions of secularism and Islamization, culminating in the fall of the government.

Paper, 40 pp., $6.00 ISBN 965-224-035-4

Syria: Domestic Political Stress and Globalization
(Data and Analysis Series)
By Eyal Zisser and Paul Rivlin

The political and economic status quo identified with Hafiz al-Asad is coming under pressures of change. Eyal Zisser looks at succession, generational shifts in Syrian political, social and economic life, the role of the Islamic movement, and Syria's growing exposure to the forces of globalization. Paul Rivlin measures Syrian agriculture and manufacturing, economic reforms and demographic growth.

Paper, 64 pp., $8.00 ISBN 965-224-039-7

Newspapers and Periodicals of Egypt
In the Press Archive of the Moshe Dayan Center

The Archives' largest catalogue to date, listing over 750 titles of Egyptian newspapers and journals.

Paper, 109 pp., $5.50, ISBN 965-224-043-5

Newspapers and Periodicals of Jordan 
In the Press Archive of The Moshe Dayan Center 

The Press Archive of the Moshe Dayan Center is the most extensive collection of the modern Arabic press of its kind in the world. This catalogue includes details on 280 Jordanian holdings (including the West Bank before 1967). 

Paper, 48pp., $5.00 ISBN: 965-224-022-2   

Newspapers and Periodicals of Syria 
Syria.jpg (14002 bytes)In the Press Archive of   The Moshe Dayan Center 

Some 270 titles in the Center's unmatched collection of the Syrian press, from 1940 to the present day. 

Paper, 48pp., $5.00 ISBN 965-022-025-7 

Newspapers and Periodicals of Iraq
In the Press Archive of the Moshe Dayan Center 

A catalog of the Center's outstanding collection of the Iraqi press. The Iraqi holdings of the Press Archive include excellent runs of newspapers and periodicals from the late Republican and Ba`thist periods. The collection also includes 100 titles of opposition publications, published clandestinely or outside Iraq, in Arabic and Kurdish. 

Paper, 66pp., $5.00 ISBN: 965-224-032-X

Central Asia Meets the Middle East 
Edited by David Menashri 
Published by Frank Cass 

How independence for the Muslim republics of Central Asia and Transcaucasia has affected the Middle East, with special emphasis on Turkey and Iran. 

SALE!
Cloth, 234pp., $37.00 ISBN: 0-17146-4600-8 
Paper, $17.00 ISBN: 0-17146-4129-4 

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