The Middle East
January 2000
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January Article Abstracts
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Title: The Peace Process Revitalized
Author: Michael Sterner
"A welcome sense of urgency" accompanies the recently renewed negotiations among Israel, Syria, and the Palestinians. All three "see the present as uniquely advantageous; they also see the dangers if this opportunity for peace is squandered."
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Title: Bouteflika and Algeria's Path from Revolt to Reconciliation
Author: Robert Mortimer
"Balancing the role of the army against the grievances of civil society," Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's new president, is "apparently in charge of a process of national reconciliation that may finally allow Algeria to address the social and economic needs that a decade of political turbulence and violence has made even more urgent."
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Title: The Coming Transformation in the Muslim World
Author: Dale F. Eickelman
"Buzzwords such as "fundamentalism" and catchy phrases such as Samuel Huntington's "West versus the rest". . .obscure or even distort the immense spiritual and intellectual ferment that is taking place today among the world's nearly 1 billion Muslims."
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Title: Globally Wired: Politics in Cyberspace (First in a Series)
The Middle East's Information Revolution
Author: Jon B. Alterman
"It may be some time before the Internet becomes firmly entrenched in much of the Middle East. The obstacles to adoption, especially with the current technology, appear significant. But the information revolution has already arrived in the Middle East, and it poses significant challenges for the status quo."
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Title: Women's Rights in Kuwait: Bringing in the Last Bedouins?
Author: Mary Ann Tétreault
"The defeat [of legislation that would grant women political rights] is a stark measure of the distrust that pervades government-parliament relations, and of the inability of Kuwaiti governing institutions to rise above patterns of conflict that have poisoned national political life for many years."
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Title: Turkey's Fault Lines and the Crisis of Kemalism
Author: M. Hakan Yavuz
"Kemalism has been superficially Western in form while remaining rigidly authoritarian and dogmatic in substance. It continues to stress republicanism over democracy, homogeneity over difference, the military over the civilian, and the state over society. . . . Its quixotic quest to radically recast Turkish culture, history, and identity has ensured a permanent kulturkampf against society."
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Title: Book Review: Out of Place: A Memoir. By Edward W. Said
Reviewer: Amy L. Dalton
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Title: The Month in Review: November 1999
An international chronology of events in November, country by country, day by day.
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Title: The Middle East
A map of the Middle East.
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