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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 31 - Issue 1 - July 1997

Modern History & Politics

Book Reviews

The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Saddam Hussein, His State and International Power Politics, by Musallam Ali Musallam. 139 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. $55.00 (Cloth) ISBN 1-86064-020-6

The Government and Politics of Kuwait: Principles and Practices, by Abdul-Reda Assiri. 235 pages, map, figures, notes, tables, appendices, bibliography. Kuwait: al-Watan Printing Press, 1996. (Paper)

Kuwait: Recovery and Security After the Gulf War, by Anthony H. Cordesman. (CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment) 165 pages, charts, tables, maps, notes. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. $23.00 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-3244-3

Economics

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Water, Peace and the Middle East: Negotiating Resources in the Jordan Basin, edited by J. A. Allan. (Library of Modern Middle East Studies, vol. 1) 250 pages, maps, tables, figures, notes, appendices, bibliographies, index. New York: LB. Tauris & Co., 1996. $59.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-055-9

The Jordanian Economy, by Omar Marashdeh. 170 pages, notes, tables, appendices, index. Penang, Malaysia: Dr. Omar Marashdeh, 1995. (Paper)

Claiming the Future: Choosing Prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa, by The World Bank. 119 pages, illustrations, tables, graphs, bibliography. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1995. $7.95 (Paper) isbn 0-8213-3474-3

Anthropology & Sociology

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Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household, edited by Diane Singerman & Homa Hoodfar. (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies) 240 pages, illustrations, graphs, tables, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. $17.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-253-33027-0

Mobile Pastoralists: Development, Planning and Social Change in Oman, by Dawn Chatty. 230 pages, b&w illustrations, maps, notes, glossary, references, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. $17.50 (Paper) ISBN 0-231-10549-5

Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town, by Anne Meneley. (Anthropological Horizons) 216 pages, b&w photos, map, glossary, bibliography, index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. $18.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8020-7868-0

Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representations in North Africa, by Sabra J. Webber. (American Folklore Society Publications) 293 pages, figures, maps, photos, notes, appendix, bibliography, indices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. (Cloth) isbn 0-8122-8236-1.

Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan, by Andrew Shryock. 370 pages, map, b&w photos, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. $20.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-520-20101-9

The Rashaayda Bedouin: Arab Pastoralists of Eastern Sudan, by William C. Young. (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology Series) 157 pages, figures, b&w photos, glossary, vocabulary, bibliography, index. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. (Paper) ISBN 0-15-501513-3

Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society, by Michael Gilsenan. 377 pages, b&w plates, maps, figures, bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. $22.00 (Paper) isbn 0-520-20590-1

Myth and Mobilization in Revolutionary Iran: The Use of the Friday Congregational Sermon, by Haggay Ram. 261 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Lanham, MD: University Publishing Associates, 1994. $59.00 (Cloth) isbn 1-879383-21-7

Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf. 264 pages, b&w photos, notes on contributors, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. $50.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-520-20403-4

Mass Media in the Middle East: A Comprehensive Handbook, edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour & Hamid Mowlana. 333 pages, map, tables, glossary, selected bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. $69.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-313-28535-7

Pre-Modern History

Book Reviews

The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, by Clifford Edmund Bosworth. 389 pages, indices. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-231-10714-5

Arabic Mathematical Sciences: Instruments, Texts, Transmission, by Richard Lorch. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 354 pages, illustrations, notes, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1995. $95.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-555-6

Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350, by Michael Chamberlain. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 199 pages, maps, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $54.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-45406-9

Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt’s Waning as a Great Power, by Carl F. Petry. (SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History) 280 pages, maps, appendices, bibliographic references, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. $19.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-7914-2139-2

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Modern History & Politics

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