THE MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL
Vol. LIV · No. 3 · Summer  2000


Contents
EDITOR'S NOTE 351


SPECIAL ISSUE:
The Information Revolution


ARTICLES


Counting Nodes And Counting Noses: Understanding New Media In The Middle East
Jon Alterman

355

A "Pan-Arab Virtual Think Tank": Enriching The Arab Information Environment
Michael Hudson

362

Information Technology, Trust, And Social Change In The Arab World
Mamoun Fandy

378

New Media And The Information Revolution In The Arab World: An Assessment
Edmund Ghareeb

395

Producers And Middle East Internet Technology: Getting Beyond "Impacts"
Jon Anderson

419

New Media, Globalization And Kuwaiti National Identity
Deborah Wheeler

432

CHRONOLOGY

445


BOOK REVIEWS


465

 

The Information Revolution and the Middle East
Review Article by Michael C. Dunn

IRAN 467

Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process, by Masoud Kamali
Reviewed by Asef Bayat

Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran, by Ervand Abrahamian
Reviewed by Lisa Hajjar

Comprehensive History of The Jews of Iran: The Outset of the Diaspora, by Habib Levy
Reviewed by Vera Moreen

IRAQ 470

The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq, by Nelida Fuccaro
Reviewed by Peter P. Garretson

ISRAIL 471

Dialogue, Conflict Resolution and Change. Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel, by Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Reviewed by Lily Polliack

Israel And The Western Powers, 1952-1960, by Zach Levey
Reviewed by Gabriel Sheffer

JORDAN 473

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Kings of Jordan, 1945-1993, by Marion Boulby
Reviewed by Hanna Y. Freij

LIBYA 475

Libya since Independence: Oil and State-Building, by Dirk Vandewalle
Reviewed by Ronald Bruce St John

PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS 476

Resignation or Revolt: Socio-Political Development and the Challenges of Peace in Palestine, by Christopher Parker
Reviewed by Elaine C. Hagopian

The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building, by Barry Rubin
Reviewed by Glenn E. Robinson

SAUDI ARABIA 479

Saudi Arabia: the Shape of a Client Feudalism, by Geoff Simons
Reviewed by Kamran M. Dadkhah

SYRIA 480

Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict 1946-1970, by Steven Heydemann
Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson

Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics, by Hanna Batatu
Reviewed by Volker Perthes

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria, by Lisa Wedeen
Reviewed by Elizabeth Thompson

TUNUSIA 483

Islam et Liberté: Le malentendu historique (Islam and Freedom: The Historic Misunderstanding), by Mohamed Charfi
Reviewed by Kamel Labidi

BIOGRAPHY 485

The Making of an Egyptian Arab Nationalist: The Early Years of Azzam Pasha, 1893-1936, by Ralph M. Coury
Reviewed by Vernon Egger

Ismet Inonu and the Making of Modern Turkey, by Faruk Loolu
Reviewed by Yücel Güçlü

MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS 487

Islam, Liberalism, and Human Rights, by Katerina Dalacoura
Reviewed by Susan Waltz

Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-1919, by John Fisher
Reviewed by Jacob Abadi

Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, by Kenneth W. Stein
Reviewed by Avraham Sela

PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE 491

Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism. The Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy, and the Islamic State, by Ahmad S. Moussalli 
Reviewed by Armando Salvatore

Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing, by Fred M. Donner
Reviewed by Muhammad Qasim Zaman

RECENT PUBLICATIONS 494
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE 501
COMMUNICATIONS 501

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