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Table of Contents
Editorial

UP FRONT
Opening the Debate on the Right of Return
    Sari Hanafi

Controllable Democracy in Uzbekistan
    Alisher Ilkhamov

“Security Assistance” Bonanza After September 11 (chart)

ARTICLES
Victims of Circumstance
    Anthony Shadid

The Shape of Afghanistan to Come
    Anthony Shadid (sidebar)

Afghan Women: Bombed to Be Liberated?
   Saba Gul Khattak

Pakistan Between Afghanistan and India
    Hamza Alavi

Gray Money, Corruption and the Post-September 11 Middle East
    John Sfakianakis

Refugees in Their Own Country
    Maggy Zanger

REVIEW ESSAY
Gender and Islamism in the 1990s
    Mervat Hatem