Volume 28 (1998) 206-209:

• No. 206 Power and Sexuality in the Middle East

• No. 207 Who Paid the Price? 50 Years of Israel
  

• No. 208 Critical Assessments: US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
  

• No. 209 Behind the Ballot Box: Elections in the Middle East

ARTICLES

Armbrust, Walter "Transgressing Patriarchy, Sex and Marriage in Egyptian Film" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:29-31

Aydintasbas, Asli "The Malaise of Turkish Democracy" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:32-35

Bennis, Phyllis "Deir Yassin Remembered" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:18

Bennis, Phyllis "Plus Ça Change, Plus Ça La Même Chose, US Aid to Israel" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:28-29

Bennis, Phyllis and Khaled Mansour "‘Praise God and Pass the Ammunition!’ The Changing Nature of Israel’s US Backers" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:16-18, 43

Ben-zvi, Yael "Zionist Lesbianism and Transsexual Transgression, Two Representations of Queer Israel" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:26-28, 37

Bromley, Simon "Oil and the Middle East, The End of US Hegemony?" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:19-22

Burton-Rose, Daniel "Room to Breathe, Creating Space for Independent Political Action in Morocco" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:8-10,43

Campagna, Joel "Press Freedom in Jordan" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:44-48

Carapico, Sheila "Legalism and Realism in the Gulf" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:3-6

Carapico, Sheila "Mission: Democracy" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:17-20, 40

Connell, Dan "From Alliance to the Brink of All-Out War, Explaining the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Crisis" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:40-43

Corm, Georges "Avoiding the Obvious, Arab Perspectives on US Hegemony in the Middle East" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:23-25

Dialmy, Abdessamad "Moroccan Youth, Sex and Islam" 206 (28,1) Spring 98: 16-17

Dunne, Bruce "Power and Sexuality in the Middle East" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:8-11,37

El-Gawhary, Karim "Breaking a Social Taboo, AIDS Hotline in Cairo" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:18-19

Hajjar, Lisa "Alternatives to an International Criminal Court" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:5-6

Hajjar, Lisa "Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Arab Women, Liberal Feminism and the Israeli State" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:27

Hubbel, Stephen "The Containment Myth, US Middle East Policy in Theory and Practice" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:8-11

Husseini, Sam "Short-Circuiting the Media/Policy Machine, Lessons for Activists Confronting US Foreign Policy in the Middle East" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:33-36

Kandiyoti, Deniz and Mary Robert "Transsexuals and the Urban Landscape in Istanbul" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:20-25

Klare, Michael "The Rise and Fall of the ‘Rogue Doctrine’, The Pentagon’s Quest for a Post-Cold War Military Strategy" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:12-15,47

Menicucci, Garay "Unlocking the Arab Celluloid Closet, Homosexuality in Egyptian Film" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:32-36

Munson Jr., Henry "International Election Monitoring, A Critique Based on One Monitor’s Experience in Morocco" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:36-39

Niva, Steve "Between Clash and Co-optation, US Foreign Policy and the Specter of Islam" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:26-29

Pappé, Ilan "Fifty Years Through the Eyes of ‘New Historians’ in Israel" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:14-17,23

Perthes, Volker "Points of Difference, Cases for Cooperation; European Critiques of US Middle East Policy" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:30-32

Pripstein Posusney, Marsha "Behind the Ballot Box: Electoral Engineering in the Arab World" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:12-16, 42

Roberts, Hugh "Algeria’s Contested Elections" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:21-24

Ruggi, Suzanne "Commodifying Honor in Female Sexuality, Honor Killings in Palestine" 206 (28,1) Spring 98: 12-15

S., K. "Beirut Dispatch" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:7

Sayigh, Rosemary "Dis/Solving the ‘Refugee Problem’" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:19-23

Schwedler, Jillian "A Paradox of Democracy? Islamist Participation in Elections" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:25-29,41

Shalev, Michael "The Contradictions of Economic Reform in Israel" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:30-33,41

Sharoni, Simona "The Myth of Gender Equality and the Limits of Women’s Political Dissent in Israel" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:24-28

Silverstein, Paul A. "‘The Rebel is Dead. Long live the Martyr!’ Kabyle Mobilization and the Assassination of Lounès Matoub" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:3-4

Stork, Joe "Constructing an International Criminal Court" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:3-4

Usher, Graham "The Enigmas of Shas" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:34-36

Yiftachel, Oren "Democracy or Ethnocracy? Territory and Settler Politics in Israel/Palestine" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:8-13

Young, Michael "Two Faces of Janus, Post-war Lebanon and its Reconstruction" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:4-7, 44

VIEWPOINT/PERSPECTIVES

"Multi-Party Elections in the Arab World: Controlled Contestation and Opposition Stratagies", conference (October 2-3, 1998) excerpts of contributions by: Hani Hourani, Issam Naaman, Sion Assidon, Mohamed Karam, Mudar Kassis, Gamal ‘Abdel ‘Aziz, Kamal Khaled 209 (28,4) Winter 98:30-31,40

Fisk, Robert "‘So No One Can Say ‘We Didn’t Know’" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:2

Halliday, Denis "‘Sanctions have an impact on all of us’" 209 (28,4) Winter 98:3

Further Reading on Sexuality in Middle Eastern Societies 206 (28,1) Spring 98:38

Dabbas, Aida Interviewed by Jillian Schwedler "Protesting Sanctions against Iraq, A View from Jordan" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:37-39

Drumtra, Jeff Interviewed by MER "The Political Roots of Famine in Southern Sudan" 208 (28,3) Fall 98:5-6

Roberts, Hugh Interviewed by MER "Under Western Eyes, Violence and the Struggle for Political Accountability in Algeria" 206 (28,1) Spring 98:39-42

Niva, Steve "Countering Israel’s 50^th on the Internet, Al-Nakba Websites Document Palestinian Dispossession" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:17

Roy, Olivier "Tensions in Iran, The Future of the Islamic Revolution" 207 (28,2) Summer 98:38-41

Miskin, Al "Better Living trough Chemistry" et al. 208 (28,3) Fall 98:7

Miskin, Al "Happy Anniversary!" et al. 207 (28,2) Summer 98:7

Miskin, Al "Rodinson Banned at AUC" et al. 209 (28,4) Winter 98:11

Ezrahi, Yaron Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel Reviewed by Rebecca Luna Stein 207 (28,2) Summer 98:43-45

Gendzier, Irene Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East 1945-1958 Reviewed by Karen Pfeifer 207 (28,2) Summer 98:45-47

Gran, Peter Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History Reviewed by Christopher Toensing 208 (28,3) Fall 98:44-46

Metcalf, Barbara Daly, ed. Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe Reviewed by JoAnn D’Alisera 208 (28,3) Fall 98:46-47

• No. 210 Reform or Reaction: Dilemmas of Economic Development in the Middle East

• No. 211 Trafficking and Transiting: New Perspectives on Labor Migration
  

• No. 212 Pushing the Limits: IranÕs Islamic Revolution at Twenty

• No. 213 Millennial Middle East: Changing Orders, Shifting Borders

ARTICLES

Abdo, Geneive "From Revolution to Revelations, Khatami’s Iran Struggles for Reform" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:7-9

Abowd, Tom "‘The Land without the People’ Contesting Jerusalem on the Eve of the Millennium" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:34-37

Abujaber, Diana "Memories of Birth, An Excerpt" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:32-33

Ateek, Naim "Faith, Money and the Millennium, A View from Palestine" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:32-33

Beinin, Joel "The Working Class and Peasantry in the Middle East, From Economic Nationalism to Neoliberalism" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:18-22

Bernal, Victoria "Migration, Modernity and Islam in Rural Sudan" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:26-28

Bill, James A. "Iran and the United States, A Clash of Hegemonies" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:44-46

Cavanaugh, Kathleen "The Cost of Peace, Assessing the Palestinian-Israeli Accords" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:10-12, 15

Cinar, Alev "Cartel, Travels of German-Turkish Rap Music" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:43-44

Connell, Dan "What’s New in the New Sudan?" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:2-3, 7

Crain, Mary M. "New North African Immigration to Spain" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:23-25

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella "Economic Restructuring in the Middle East, Implications for Women" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:17

Ehsani, Kaveh "Do-e Khordad and the Specter of Democracy" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:10-11, 16

Ehsani, Kaveh "Municipal Matters, The Urbanization of Consciousness and Political Change in Tehran" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:22-27

El-Gawhary, Karim "NATO’s Future in the Middle East" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:16-18

El-Gawhary, Karim "Religious Ferment (ation)" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:14-15

Ethelston, Sally "Water and Women, The Middle East in Demographic Transition" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:8-12, 44

Haddad, Bassam "Change and Stasis in Syria, One Step Forward…" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:23-27

Haddad, Reem "A Modern-Day ‘Slave Trade’, Sri Lankan Workers in Lebanon" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:39-41

Halliday, Fred "The Middle East at the Millennial Turn" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:4-7

Hanieh, Adam "The WWW in Palestine, An Informational and Organizing Tool" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:41-43

Hargreaves, Alec G. "Boys in the Mud, Maghrebi Filmmakers in France" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:34-35

Ho, Engseng "Yemenis on Mars, The End of Mahjar (Diaspora)?" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:29-31

Katz, David "The Mediterranean Free Trade Zone, Duty-Free Environmental Degradation" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:46-48

Kelani, Reem "Burj el-Barajneh Dispatch" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:13

Kian-Thiébaut, Azadeh "Political and Social Transformations in Post-Islamist Iran" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:12-16

King, Stephen J. "Structural Adjustment and Rural Poverty in Tunisia" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:41-43

Krouzman, Roni "21^st Century Palestine, Toward a ‘Swiss Cheese’ State?" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:38-40

Longva, Anh Nga "Keeping Migrant Workers in Check, The Kafala System in the Gulf" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:20-22

McMurry, David "Recent Trends in Middle Eastern Migration" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:16-19

Merat, Zarir "Pushing Back the Limits of the Possible, The Press in Iran" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:32-35

Milton-Edwards, Beverley and Peter Hinchcliffe "Abdullah’s Jordan: New King, Old Problems" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:28-31

Mitchell, Timothy "Dreamland, The Neoliberalism of Your Desires" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:28-33

Moruzzi, Norma Claire "Women’s Space/Cinema Space, Representations of Public and Private in Iranian Films" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:52-55

Naiman, Robert "No Jubilee for the Middle East?" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:13-15

Niknam, Azadeh "The Islamization of Law in Iran, A Time of Disenchantment" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:17-21

Niva, Steve "Alternatives to Neoliberalism" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:16

Peterson, Scott "The Gulf War Battlefield, Still ‘Hot’ with Depleted Uranium" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:2-5

Pfeifer, Karen "How Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan and even Egypt became IMF ‘Success Stories’ in the 1990s" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:23-27

Pfeifer, Karen, Marsha Pripstein-Posusney, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Steve Niva "Reform or Reaction? Dilemmas of Economic Development in the Middle East" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:14-15

Pripstein-Posusney, Marsha "Egyptian Privatization, New Challenges for the Left" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:38-40

Rothenberg, Celia "Understanding Ghada, The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:10-12

Sakr, Naomi "Satellite Television and Development in the Middle East" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:6-8

Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad "Labor and the Challenge of Economic Restructuring in Iran" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:34-37

Sayre, Ward and Jennifer Olmsted "Economics of Palestinian Return Migration" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:8-9

Shadid, Anthony "Daring Theater Offers Respite from Baghdad’s Misery" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:13-14

Stone, Anya "How the Sex Trade Becomes a Slave Trade, The Trafficking of Women to Israel" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:36-38

Tsemel, Lea "An Open Letter to Abu Jerry" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:2-3

Usher, Graham "The Fate of Small Nations, The Karabagh Conflict Ten Years Later" 213 (29,4) Winter 99:19-22

Zeytœ noª lu, IÍ ik Urla, Ömür Timurcanday Özmen, Alev Ergen¸ Katrœ lœ , Hayat Kabasakal and Yasemin Arbak "Migrant Women in Waged Domestic Work in Turkey" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:42,45

Kelly, Kathy "‘The bombing has started again’" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:2

Marwany, Hassan "Liberating Arnoun" 211 (29,2) Summer 99:6

Resources on Labor Migration in the Middle East for Educators and Activists 211 (29,2) Summer 99:41

Alavitabar, Alireza Interviewed by Kaveh Ehsani "‘God Hasn’t Died in this Society Yet’" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:28-31

Bourghani, Ahmad Interviewed by Kaveh Ehsani "‘The Conservatives have Misjudged’" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:36-38

Hajjarian, Sai’id Interviewed by Kaveh Ehsani "‘Existing Political Vessels Cannot Contain the Reform Movement’" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:40-42

Saghafi, Morad Interviewed by Kaveh Ehsani "‘The Temptation of Democracy’" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:47-51

Butterfield, Jeanne A. "Do Immigrants Have First Amendment Rights? Revisiting the Los Angeles Eight Case" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:4-6

Connell, Dan "Shootout in the Horn of Africa, A View from Eritrea" 210 (29,1) Spring 99:4-5

Karimian, Ramin and Sha’banali Bahrampour "Iranian Press Update" 212 (29,3) Fall 99:38-39

REVIEWS

Arnon, Arie, Israel Luski, Avia Spivak and Jimmy Weinblatt The Palestinian Economy: Between Imposed Integration and Voluntary Separation Reviewed by Emma Murphy 210 (29,1) Spring 99:44-45

Doumani, Beshara Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 Reviewed by Ussama Makdisi 211 (29,2) Summer 99:48

Goldberg, Ellis Jay, ed. The Social History of Labor in the Middle East Reviewed by Christopher Alexander 210 (29,1) Spring 99:48

Graham-Brown, Sarah Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq; Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein; Scott Ritter Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem – Once and For All; Tim Trevan Saddam’s Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq’s Hidden Weapons Reviewed by Joost R. Hiltermann 212 (29,3) Fall 99:58-60

Green, Mary Jean, Karen Gould, Micheline Rice-Maximin, et al., eds. Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers and Winifred Woodhull Transfigurations of the Maghreb: Feminism, Decolonization, and Literatures reviewed by Nada Elia 211 (29,2) Summer 99:46-47

Paidar, Parvenu Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran Reviewed by Shiva Balaghi 210 (29,1) Spring 99:45