INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
Vol. XXXV    No.3   August 2003

CONTENTS


A HISTORICAL SLIP OF THE TONGUE, OR WHAT CAN THE ARAB–JEWISH TRANSPORTATION STRIKE TEACH US ABOUT THE ISRAELI–PALESTINIAN CONFLICT?
Lev Grinberg
   
 371-391
LOCAL STRUGGLE, NATIONAL STRUGGLE: PALESTINIAN RESPONSES TO THE KAFR QASIM MASSACRE AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1956–66
Shira Robinson
   
 393-416
PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM HAS LEFT THE FIELD: A SHORTENED HISTORY OF ARAB SOCCER IN ISRAEL
Tamir Sorek
   
 417-437
HISTORICAL TRAUMAS, IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICTS, AND THE PROCESS OF MYTHOLOGIZING
Tirza Hechter
   
 439-460
THE STUDY OF WAR AND THE MILITARY IN ISRAEL: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION AND A REFLECTIVE CRITIQUE
Zeev Rosenhek, Daniel Maman, Eyal Ben-Ari
   
 461-484
Book Reviews
MANDATE DAZE: STORIES OF BRITISH RULE IN PALESTINE, 1917–48
Martin Bunton
   
 485-492
Book Reviews

Religion
   

ISSA J. BOULLATA, ED., Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qur'an
TODD LAWSON
   
 493-494
CHRISTOPHER BUCK, Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha'i Faith
KATHLEEN E. MCVEY
   
 494-496

History
   

ALBRECHT FUESS, Verbannes Ufer: Auswirkungen mamlukischer Seepolitik auf Beirut und die syro-palästinensiche Küste (1250–1517)
ANDREW C. HESS
   
 496-498
WILLEM FLOOR, Safavid Government Institutions
CHARLES MELVILLE
   
 498-500
ALLEN J. FRANK, Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780–1910
R. D. McCHESNEY
   
 500-503
JANICE DELEDALLE-RHODES, L'Orient représenté: Charles Montagu Doughty et les Voyageurs anglais du XIXe Siècle
JASON THOMPSON
   
 503-505

Anthropology
   

REMCO ENSEL, Saints and Servants in Southern Morocco
MARGARET RAUSCH
   
 505-507
KARIN VAN NIEUWKERK, A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
MARGARET RAUSCH
   
 507-509

Politics
   

R. HRAIR DEKMEJIAN AND HOVANN SIMONIAN, Troubled Waters: The Geopolitics of the Caspian Region
SHIREEN HUNTER
   
 509-510
ALAWI D. KAYAL, The Control of Oil: East–West Rivalry in the Persian Gulf
HASSAN SHAYGANNIK
   
 510-511
SHAUL MISHAL AND AVRAHAM SELA, The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence
QUINTAN WIKTOROWICZ
   
 511-513
SIMON W. MURDEN, Islam, the Middle East, and the New Global Hegemony
ALI R. ABOOTALEBI
   
 513-515
YAEL NAVARO-YASHIN, Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
YEÞÝM ARAT
   
 515-516
HOOMAN PEIMANI, Failed Transition, Bleak Future? War and Instability in Central Asia and the Caucasus
NOZAR ALAOLMOLKI
   
 517-519
BASSAM TIBI, Islam between Culture and Politics
AHMAD SADRI
   
 519-520