The Middle East Journal
Vol. LV      No. 1    Winter 2001

Contents

Re-Thinking The Islamic Republic: A ‘Conversation’ With Ayatollah Hossein ‘Ali Montazeri
Geneive Abdo
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A Practical Line: The Line Of Withdrawal And Its Potential Applicability To The Golan Heights
Frederic C. Hof
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Bourguiba And Bouguibism Revisited
L. Carl Brown
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Russian Policy Toward The Middle East: The Yeltsin Legacy And The Putin Challenge
Robert O. Freedman
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The Political Mythology Of The Battle Of Karameh
W. Andrew Terrill
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BOOK REVIEWS

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ALGERIA

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State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-Seeking and Failed Development, by Bradford L. Dillman
Reviewed by Daho Djerbal

ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

132
Sacred Landscape: the Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948, by Meron Benvenisti
Reviewed by Richard B. Parker

IRAN

134
Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran, by Mohammad Gholi Majd
Reviewed by Amir Ismail Ajami

JORDAN

135
State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity, by Marc Lynch
Reviewed by Curtis R. Ryan

KUWAIT

137
Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait, by Mary Ann Tétrault
Reviewed by Paul Aarts

OMAN

138
Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996
Reviewed by J.E. Peterson

PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS

140
The Palestinian Hamas, by Shaul Mishal and Avraham Sela
Reviewed by Marion Boulby

SYRIA

141
Demographic Developments and Population Policies in Ba'thist Syria, by Onn Winckler
Reviewed by Farzaneh (Nazy) Roudi

TURKEY

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A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States, by Heinz Kramer
Reviewed by Henri Barkey
Dimensions of Western Foreign Investment in Turkey, by Ekrem Tatoglu and Keith W. Glaister
Reviewed by Mine Eder
Turkey Today: A Nation Divided over Islam's Revival, by Marvine Howe
Reviewed by Metin Heper
Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermaneutic Reconsideration, by Andrew Davison
Reviewed by Sabri Sayari

BIOGRAPHY

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The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, by Abbas Milani
Reviewed by James A. Bill

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

150
Scattered Like Seeds: A Novel, by Shaw J. Dallal
Reviewed by Charles E. Butterworth
The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature, by Kamran Talattof
Reviewed by Nasrin Rahimieh

MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS

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Palestine: A Twice-Promised Land? Volume 1: The British, the Arabs & Zionism, 1915-1920, by Isaiah Friedman
Reviewed by Martin Bunton
A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters, and History, by Bernard Lewis
Reviewed by Ray L. Cleveland
Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism, ed. By Derek Hopwood
Reviewed by William L. Cleveland
Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948, by Naomi Shepherd
Reviewed by John J. McTague
Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East, 1917-1919, by Matthew Hughes
Reviewed by Harold E. Raugh, Jr.

PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE

160
Islam in America, by Jane Smith
Reviewed by Frederic R. Kellogg

WOMEN

160
Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, by Eleanor A. Doumato
Reviewed by Soraya Altorki
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. by Lila
Abu-Lughod
Reviewed by Hoda Elsadda
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE
COMMUNICATIONS
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