Conflict resolution and regional co-operation: The role of the Gulf Co-operation Council 1970–2002

The Middle East: a Political and Economic Survey edited by Peter Mansfield. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Fourth edition, Pp. xi + 591, 3 maps, statistical appendices, reading list, index. £5.50.

Islam in History: Ideas, Men and Events in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. Alcove Press, London, 1973, 349 pp., index, £5 net.

The Private Life of Islam by Ian Young, London, Allen Lane, 1974, pp vii + 308; £3.25.     

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.     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel , by Stephen J. Sniegoski.
The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last , by Bernard Avishai.
The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower , by Robert Baer.
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran , by Hooman Majd.
Culture and Conflict in the Middle East , by Philip Carl Salzman.
Syria: Chess Match at the Borders , A Film by Amal Hamelin des Essarts.
Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader, A Story of True Jihad , by John W. Kiser.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisted , by Benny Morris
The Modern History of Iraq , by Phebe Marr
Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied , by Toby Dodge
Seeds of Hate: How America's Flawed Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad , Lawrence Pintak
Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power , ed. Azza Karam
Islamic Political Identity in Turkey , by M. Hakan Yavuz     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Nils A. Butenschon, Uri Davis and Manuel Hassassian, (eds.) Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications Benjamin W. Wolkinson, Arab Employment In Israel: The Quest for Equal Employment Opportunity James A. Bill and John Alden Williams, Roman Catholics and Shii Muslims: Prayer, Passion, and Politics     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Fima , by Amos Oz, trans. Nicholas de Lange.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Operation Shylock, A Confession , by Philip Roth.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza , by Ian S. Lustick.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Palestinians: The Making of a People , by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Arabs and Israel for Beginners , by Ron David. Illustrated by Susan David.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Egypt during the Nasser Years: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Society , by Kirk J. Beattie.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: The Middle East and Problems of Democracy , by Heather Deegan.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: The Roots of Orientalism in America , by Fuad Shaban.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States , by F. Gregory Gause III.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-Up, 1980-92 , by Branka Magas.     

Book Reviews

Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East , by Matt Rees
A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples , by Ilan Pappé
Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble , by Mitri Raheb
Zionism: A Brief History , by Michael Brenner, translated by Shelley L. Frisch
Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle , by Mazin B. Qumsieh
Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel , edited by Adam Shatz
The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America , by Kenneth M. Pollack
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam , by Reza Aslan     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East , by Geoffrey Kemp and Robert Harkavy. Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE: Challenges of Security , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Kuwait: Recovery and Security after the Gulf War , by Anthony H. Cordesman. U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Resources and Capabilities , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region , edited by Roberto Aliboni, George Joffé, and Tim Niblock. War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications , by Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb. Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? Edited by John L. Esposito. The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East , by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry. Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers , by Mohammed Arkoun; translated and edited by Robert D. Lee. A Lebanon Defied: Musa al-Sadr and the Shi'a Community , by Majed Halawi. Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment , by J.J. Goldberg.     

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:
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: Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire , by Patrick Seale. Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship , by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 1991: Israel and the Occupied Territories . Days of Honey, Days of Onion: The Story of a Palestinian Family in Israel , by Michael Gorkin. The Origins of Arab Nationalism , ed. by Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih, and Reeva S. Simon. The Political Language of Islam , by Bernard Lewis.     

Palestine: the return of the one‐state solution

The Cambridge History of Islam. Edited by P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis. Cambridge University Press, 1970. Volume I: The Central Islamic Lands. Pp. xviii, 815. Bibliog., Index. ££6.00. Volume II: The Further Islamic Lands, Islamic Society and Civilization. Pp. xxvi, 966. Plates, Bibliog., Index. £7.00.     

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.     

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.     

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

Books reviewed in this article:
Karl E. Meyer, The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Central Asian Heartland
Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Adir Waldman, Arbitrating Armed Conflict: Decisions of the Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group
Baruch Kimmerling, Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians
Wolfgang Freund, Looking into HAMAS and Other Constituents of the Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation
Stephen Schwartz, The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Saud from Tradition to Terror
Adeed Dawisha, Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair
Mehdi Zakerian, Human Rights and the Middle East     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 , by Melissa Boyle Mahle
Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East , edited by Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway
Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain , by Tariq Modood
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism , by Robert A. Pape
The Path to Geneva: The Quest for a Permanent Agreement , 1996–2004, by Yossi Beilin
West Bank Diary: Middle East Violence as Reported by a Former American Hostage , by Jerry Levin
The Iranian Labyrinth: Journeys Through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies , by Dilip Hiro
Germany and the Middle East, 1871–1945 , edited by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab‐Israeli Conflict , by Jonathan Schneer. “This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion , by Norman G. Finkelstein. After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy , by Christopher J. Coyne. Turkey, Islam, Nationalism and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007 , by Carter Vaughn Findley. The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East , by Geoffrey Kemp. Arab Economies in the Twenty‐First Century , by Paul Rivlin     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue: Burning Issues: Understanding and Misunderstanding the Middle East, A 40‐Year Chronicle , by John Mahoney, Jane Adas and Robert Norberg, editors. Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization , by Akbar Ahmed. The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World , by Mohammed Ayoob. Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen , by Jillian Schwedler. Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence , by Aliza Marcus. The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide , by Guenter Lewy. The Armenian Rebellion at Van , by Justin McCarthy, Esat Arslan, Cemalettin Taskiran, Ömer Turan.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance , by David Gardner.
Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America's National Interest , by Lawrence Davidson.
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace , by Avi Shlaim.
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life , by Nigel Ashton.
The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran , by Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar.
The Crisis of Islamic Civilization , by Ali A. Allawi.
Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey , by M. Hakan Yavuz.
Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France and Turkey , by Ahmet T. Kuru.