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

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.     

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:
REVIEW ESSAY: I sraeli N ational S ecurity : A N ew C onceptualization
The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force , by Martin Van Creveld.
Knives, Tanks and Missles: Israel's Security Revolution , by Eliot A. Cohen, Michael Eisenstadt and A.J. Bacevich.
Israel and the Bomb , by Avner Cohen.
Rabin and Israel's National Security , by Efraim Inbar.
National Security: The Israeli Experience , by Yisrael Tal
Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination , by Ehud Sprinzak.
The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building , by Barry Rubin.
Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem , by Amir S. Chesin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed.
Islamic Politics in Palestine , by Beverly Milton-Edwards.
Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege , by Amira Hass. New York:
The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991-96 and Beyond , by Helena Cobban.
Bring Down the Walls. Lebanon's Post-War Challenge , by Carole H. Dagher.
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia , by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.     

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.     

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: 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

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: REVIEW ESSAY: TRANSITION TO PALESTINIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT: Practical Steps Toward Israeli-Palestinian Peace. REVIEW ESSAY: THE POLITICS OF PARTITION: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine, 1921–1951, by Avi Shlaim. REVIEW ESSAY: BEHIND THE MYTH Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution, by Andrew Gowers and Tony Walker. REVIEW ESSAY: CHILDREN OF BETHANY: The Story of a Palestinian Family, by Said K. Aburish. REVIEW ESSAY: WILD THORNS, by Sahar Khalifeh. Translated from the Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick and Elizabeth Fernea. REVIEW ESSAY: THE ARAB CHRISTIAN: A History in the Middle East, by Kenneth Cragg. REVIEW ESSAY: GEORGE BUSH'S WAR, by Jean Edward Smith. REVIEW ESSAY: MR. BUSH'S WAR: Adventures in the Politics of Illusion, by Stephen R. Graubard. REVIEW ESSAY: IRAN AFTER KHOMEINI, by Shireen T. Hunter.     

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.     

Review Essay

Book reviewed in this article:
Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic, by Ervand Abrahamian.
From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi, by Mohammed Al-Fahim.
Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy, by Joseph A. Kechichain.
The Life and Times of Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa: Ruler of Bahrain 1942-61, by Andrew Wheatcroft.
Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945, by Donald Neff.
Broken Covenant, by Moshe Arens.
Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians, edited by Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour and Alice Lynd.
Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land, by Meron Benvenisti.
The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians, by Naseer Aruri.
WATER AND POWER. The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin, by Miriam R. Lowi.
Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East, by Daniel Hillel.
Arms Control and Security in the Middle East: The Search for Common Ground, edited by Richard Eisendorf.
The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics 1955-1967, by Fawaz A. Gerges.     

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 Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite , by Robert D. Kaplan. The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East , by Richard B. Parker. Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity , by Elmer Berger. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship , by Paul Findley Profits of War , by Ari Ben-Menashe. Americans and the Palestinian Question: The U.S. Public Debate on Palestinian Nationhood, 1973–1978 , by Marianne van Leeuwen. Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society , by Robert B. Cunningham and Yasin K. Sarayrah. Oil Trade: Politics and Prospects , by J. E. Hartshorn. The Forgotten Queens of Islam , by Fatima Mernissi. Translated from French by Mary Jo Lakeland.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Pursuing Peace: An American Strategy for the Arab-Israeli Peace Process , Final Report of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Strategic Study Group. The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations , by Itamar Rabinovich. The Gulf, Cooperation and the Council: An American Perspective , by Joseph Wright Twinam. Shifting Lines in the Sand: Kuwait's Elusive Frontier with Iraq , by David H. Finnic Storm Center: The USS Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655 , by Will and Sharon Rogers, with Gene Gregston. Allahu Akbar , by Edward Nash. The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? by John L. Esposito. A Muslim Primer: Beginner's Guide to Islam , by Ira G. Zepp, Jr., with an introduction by Sayyid Muhammad Syeed. Fields of Fig and Olive: Ameera and Other Stories of the Middle East , by Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki.     

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

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate , by Tom Segev.
Encyclopedia of the Palestinians , edited by Philip Mattar.
Israel's First Fifty Years , edited by Robert O. Freedman.
The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon 1967–1976 , by Farid El-Khazen.
China and the Middle East: The Quest for Influence , edited by P. R. Kumaraswamy.
The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine , by Ray Takeyh.
The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran , by Robin Wright.
Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics , by L. Carl Brown.
Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia– 1937 to 1940 , by Thomas C. Barger.
Holier Than Thou: Saudi Arabia's Islamic Opposition , by Joshua Teitelbaum.     

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

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.