BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy , by Seymour M. Hersh. No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , by Mark A. Heller and Sari Nusseibeh. The Other Walls, the Arab-Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective , by Harold H. Saunders. Revised edition. Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank , by George Emile Bisharat. Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East , by John K. Cooley. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process , by Alistair Drysdale and Raymond A. Hinnebush. Egypt and the ArabsndashForeign Policy and the Search for National Identity , by Joseph P. Lorenz. Kissing through Glass: The Invisible Shield between Americans and Israelis , by Joyce R. Starr. Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk about Their Lives , by Bouthaina Shaaban.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 , by William B. Quandt. Securing Peace in the Middle East: Project on Economic Transition , by the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East of the John F. The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present , by George W. Ball and Douglas B. Ball. Quagmire: America in the Middle East , by Leon T. Hadar. Sleeping on A Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel , by David Grossman. Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman. Breaking the Ice: Rapprochement Between East and West Germany, the United States and China and Israel and Egypt , by Tony Armstrong. Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East , by David W. Lesch. The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq , by Kenneth R. Timmerman. After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Postmodernism, Reason and Religion by Ernest Gellner.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East , by Martin Indyk. We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work , by Jimmy Carter. A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World , by Emile Nakhleh. Egypt After Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World , by Bruce K. Rutherford. Faysal: Saudi Arabia's King for All Seasons , by Joseph A. Kéchichian. What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq , by Nadje al‐Ali and Nicola Pratt. Kemalism in Turkish Politics: The Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism , by Sinan Ciddi. European and Turkish Voices in Favour and Against Turkish Accession to the European Union. Christiane Timmerman, Dirk Rochtus, and Sara Mels, eds.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab‐Israeli Peace , by Aaron David Miller. Negotiating Arab‐Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East , by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky. The Arab‐Israeli Conflict — A History , by David W. Lesch. A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance , by Mary Elizabeth King. Hezbollah: A Short History, by Augustus Richard Norton. Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty‐First Century , by Marc Sageman. Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy , by Tamara Coffman Wittes. An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? Reidar Vissar and Gareth Stansfield, eds. A Political Economy of the Middle East, Third Edition, by Alan Richards and John Waterbury. Arguing the Just War in Islam , by John Kelsay. Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party , Edited by Umit Cizre. REVIEW ESSAY: Kurdish Scholarship Comes of Age     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East , by Leon Hadar Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq , by Larry Diamond Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam , by Robert Dreyfuss The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration's Second Term , edited by Flynt Leverett My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope , by L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism , by Michael Provence Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad , by Natana J. Delong‐Bas Reframing Anti‐Semitism: Alternative Jewish Perspectives , Jewish Voice for Peace, eds. Parting Ways: The Crisis in German‐American Relations , by Stephen F. Szabo     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan , by Roy Gutman. The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq , by Bing West. Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq , by Robert Earle. The Persian Gulf in History , by Lawrence G. Potter, ed. One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict , by Benny Morris. Russia and the Arabs: Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present , by Yevgeny Primakov (translated by Paul Gould).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Through Secret Channels, by Mahmoud Abbas. Making Peace with the PLO: The Rabin Government's Road to the Oslo Accord, by David Makovsky. The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East, Uri Savir. The Middle East Peace Process: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Han Peleg. Albany: Druze and Jews in Israel - A Shared Destiny? by Zeidan Atashi The Remaking of Saudi Arabia: The Struggle between King Saud and Crown Prince Faysal, 1953-1962, by Sarah Yisraeli. Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, by Ofra Bengio. The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism, by Ahmed Rashid.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World , by Milton Viorst.
Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery , by Robert Parry.
Islam in History: Ideas, People and Events in the Middle East (New Edition, Revised and Expanded), by Bernard Lewis.
Islam and the West , by Bernard Lewis.
Muquddinuz fiilm al-istighrab (An Introduction to "Occidentalism") , by Hasan Hanafi.
Battle Lines: The American Media and the Intifada , by Jim Lederman.
Turmoil: The Druzes, Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli Conflict , by Najib.
The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century , by Abraham Marcus.     

INTERVIEW WITH RITA E. HAUSER

Ms. Hauser is an International lawyer and head of the American branch of the Tel Aviv-based International Center for Peace in the Middle East. She was a member of the Brookings Institution's Middle East Study Group in 1975 and 1987-88 and is a former U.S. representative at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. Ms. Hauser was also a U.S. delegate to the 24th U.N. General Assembly and has long been active in Republican party circles. In December 1988, she led a group of American Jews in meetings with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in Stockholm and Geneva. The delegation was instrumental in Arafat's explicit clarification that the PLO had recognized Israel, accepted Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and renounced terrorism, a move that prompted the Reagan administration to open a “substantive dialogue” with the PLO. The following interview was conducted by Roger Gaess, a free-lance journalist, on December 20, 1991, at Ms. Hauser's office in midtown Manhattan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Understanding Iraq , by William R. Polk. Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco , by David L. Phillips. Understanding Terror Networks , by Marc Sageman. Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945 , by Beverley Milton‐Edwards. Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism , by Judith Palmer Harik. Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab‐Israeli Conflict since 1967, Third Edition , by William B. Quandt. How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate, a Cross‐Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process , by Tamara Cofman Wittes, editor. Defending Israel: A Controversial Plan Toward Peace , by Martin van Creveld. Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire , by Flynt Leverett. The World According to Whitbeck , by John Whitbeck. Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony? by Toby Shelley.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait , by Mary Ann Tétreault All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies , by Michael Herb. Saddam's Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons , by Tim Trevan. Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem‐Once and for All , by Scott Ritter. The Arab Shia: The Forgotten Muslims , by Graham E. A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza , by Rex Brynen. Water Politics in the Middle East: A Context for Conflict or Cooperation? , by Mostafa Dolatrar and Tim S. Gray. Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace , eds. Hussein A. Amery and Aaron T. Wolfe. Water Conflict: Economics, Politics, Law and the Palestinian‐Israeli Water Resources , by Sharif S. Elmusa. New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel , ed. Geoffrey Wigoder. The Oxford History of Islam , ed. John Esposito Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat ? eds. Roald Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower.     

Enemy of the State: A Conversation with Ilan Pappé

Israeli academic Ilan Pappé first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of Israel's "New Historian" movement, which chronicled the war crimes and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians in the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Dr. Pappe teaches political science at Haifa University and is the academic director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva. He is currently writing a second edition of his most recent book , A History of Modern Palestine, One Land, Two Peoples (2004). The following interview was conducted by Don Atapattu, a free-lance writer in London .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Other Israel, Voices of Refusal and Dissent , Foreword by Tom Segev and Introduction by Anthony Lewis. Edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin. Peace under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement , edited by Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa McLaughlin, Hussein Khalili, Nicholas Blincoe, Huwaida Arraf and Ghassan Andoni. Foreword by Edward Said. Herzl's Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples , by Peter Rodgers. Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel 1917–2002 , by Irvine H. Anderson. Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq , by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E Trainor. Iraqi Perspectives Report , report for the Institute for Defense Analyses, 2006. Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia , by Rachel Bronson. Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Built a Nation , by Joshua E. London. Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801–1805 , by Joseph Wheelan. Journey of a Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Fawaz Gerges.     

The Impact of the Palestinian Refugee Crisis on the Development of Amman, 1947–1958

Amman has been relatively underexplored in the literature on Middle Eastern cities. Using a broad range of primary and secondary sources, this article addresses the impact of the 1947–1949 Arab-Israeli War on the Jordanian capital during the late 1940s and 1950s. A number of themes are examined: Amman during wartime; the settlement of the Palestinians; change and continuity in terms of Jordan's centralization process and Amman's urban growth; and, finally, the city's transformative socio-economic structures and political forces. This article argues that the influx of Palestinian refugees transformed the public culture of Ammani society, which became much more politicized than before. It is also argued, however, that the political developments of the late 1940s and 1950s were not sufficient to overturn the defining characteristics of Amman as it had existed before the 1947–1949 Arab-Israeli War.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace , by Dennis Ross.
The Truth about Camp David: The Untold Story about the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process , by Clayton E. Swisher.
The 9/11 Report. Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Authorized Edition.
Turkey-Iran Relations, 1979-2004: Revolution, Ideology, War, Coups and Geopolitics , by Robert Olson.
A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era , by Matthew Connelly.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume I , edited by Augustus Richard Norton.
War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy , by Avi Shlaim.
Beyond Alliance: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy , by Camille Mansour.
Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad , by Ziad Abu-Amr.
The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World , by Gilles Kepel.
Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East , by John Bulloch and Adel Darwish.
Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication Culture and the Iranian Revolution , by Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi.
Don't Kill the Messenger: The Tragic Story of Wells Hangen and Other Journalistic Combat Victims , by Charles Arnot.
A Persian Requiem , by Simin Daneshvar, translated from the Farsi by Roxane Zand.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East , by Kenneth M. Pollack. Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East , Cilja Harders and Matteo Legrenzi, eds. The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East , by Olivier Roy. Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda , by Mark Juergensmeyer. The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World , by Graham E. Fuller. The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey , by Michael M. Gunter. Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values , by Philippe Sands. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals , by Jane Mayer.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The “Center of the Universe”: The Geopolitics of Iran , by Graham E. Fuller. American Presidents and the Middle East , by George Lemczowski. Cauldron: America in the Middle East , by Barry Rubin. Twin Pillars in Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush , by Howard Teicher and Gayle Radley Teicher. Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel , by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. The New Palestinians: be Emerging Generation of Leaders , by John Wallach and Janet Wallach. Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East , edited by Iliya Harik and Denis J. Sullivan. Imaghing the Middle East , by Thierry Hentsch.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue Historical Records of Australia, Resumed Series III Despatches and papers relating to the history of Tasmania, Volume X, January‐December 1831. General Editor: Peter Chapman, Co‐editors Peter Chapman and Tim Jetson The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer. By Alison Alexander Where is Dr Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History. By Darrell Lewis Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's Frontier Killing Times. By Timothy Bottoms Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty after Empire. By Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane Forgotten War. By Henry Reynolds Dancing with Empty Pockets. Australia's Bohemians since 1860. By Tony Moore The Baby Farmers: A Chilling Tale of Missing Babies, Shameful Secrets and Murder in 19^th Century Australia. By Annie Cousins Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the Wars. By Patricia Clarke Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraub Syncopators. By Kay Dreyfus Big Coal: Australia's Dirtiest Habit. By Guy Pearse, David McKnight and Bob Burton Employer Power and Weakness: How Local and Global Factors have shaped Australia's Meat Industry and its Industrial Relations. By Patrick O'Leary and Peter Sheldon Trust Me: Australians and their Politicians. By Jackie Dickenson Australian History Now. Edited by Anna Clark and Paul Ashton J.C. Beaglehole: Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience. By Doug Munro The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty. By Benjamin Curtis The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts. By Daniel Pick Before the Nation: Muslim‐Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late‐Ottoman Anatolia. By Nicholas Doumanis A Companion to Woodrow Wilson. Edited by Ross A. Kennedy Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Mark White America's Right: Anti‐Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party. By Robert B. Horwitz Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. By Lien‐Hang T. Nguyen. The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy. By Edward N. Luttwak Antarctica: a Biography. By David Day The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind. By Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969–1993 , by Edward W. Said.
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years , by Israel Shahak. Foreward by Gore Vidal.
All That Remains: the Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Walid Khalidi, ed.
The Palestine Liberation Organization: From Armed Struggle to the Declaration of Independence , by Jamal R. Nassar.
Building Peace in the Middle East, Challenges for States and Civil Society, edited by Elise Boulding.
Crisis in the Arabian Gulf: An Independent Iraqi View , by Omar Ali.
America and the Iraqi Crisis, 1990–1992: Origins and Aflermath , by Lester H. Brune.
Iraqi Statesman: A Portrait of Mohammed Fadhel Jamali , by Harry J. Almond.
Broadcasting in the Arab World: A Survey of the Electronic Media in the Middle East , by Douglas Boyd.