The Middle East, 11th ed.
9780872893696 The Middle East, 11th ed. CQ Press 2007 663 pages $70.00 Paperback DS63 This textbook provides an overview of Middle East politics and history as viewed from the perspective of US foreign...

Iran can--and must--be stopped.
THE SKIRMISHES in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map." So rants Iran's Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It is understandable...

Heroin trading reaches new highs.
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA, director of the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, has written to the health ministers of 90 countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe advising them to prepare for soaring drug-overdose deaths due to the huge increase in the Afghan produced heroin...

Interview with Ibrahim Al-Marashi.
Biography: Ibrahim Al-Marashi is a lecturer based in Istanbul, Turkey. He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford, completing a thesis on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Al-Marashi received a MA in Arab Studies at Georgetown in 1997. He has BAs in History and Near Eastern...

Fighting fire with diplomacy: "for the 21st century, the U.S.-Iran relationship will frame the structure and dynamics of the Middle East. We must be sure of our actions and wise with our words. The prospects for peace that have eluded all nations of the Middle East for so long may be on the edge of a convergence of historic intersects.".
AMERICA'S relationship with the Middle East--and, in particular, Iran--is at the center of some of the most important strategic challenges that the U.S. faces today and in the future: energy security, our nation's relationship with the Islamic world, and the future of the greater Middle East. Underline the latter,...

Foreign direct investment in the Middle East: major regulatory restrictions.
This article focuses on the comparative analysis of major regulatory restrictions on foreign investment in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, countries that are representative of the Muslim Middle East: the Egyptian legal system has served as a pattern for many of the Middle Eastern countries, Shari'a is the primary...

The Apocalyptic Eschatologist: an able writer chooses superficiality over substance.
The Mess They Made: The Middle East After iraq Gwynne Dyer McClelland and Stewart 267 pages, softcover ISBN 9780771029806 Gwynne Dyer, the well-known Canadian journalist, broadcaster and military historian, has produced yet another polemical and damning analysis of our contemporary world with The Mess They Made: The...

Ignoring signposts on the road: da'wa: jihad with a velvet glove.
AUSTRALIAN MEDIA preoccupation with the Muhammad Dawood aka David Hicks case-along with the September 11 atrocities, the Bali, London and Madrid bombings and the Iraqi war--has assured Islamist terrorists like the Taliban, Usama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida and militant Pakistani, Indonesian, Somali, Sudanese, Iraqi, Bangladeshi, Mindanaon and Thai jihadists, a...

When 'thoughtful' is unthoughtful: Sen. Richard Lugar and the disastrous 'middle way' on Iraq.
IF you are a Republican, there is no ticket to being considered thoughtful quite like dissenting from President Bush's Iraq policy. Few senators stand to be as "thoughtful" in this sense in the September debate over Iraq as the six-term Indiana Republican Richard Lugar. Not that getting...

Analysis; Year of heavy knocks for Chavez.
Byline: PHILIPPE ZYGEL Agence France-Presse CARACAS - Hugo Chavez often vows to KO the "American empire," but it was the flamboyant Venezuelan president who took some heavy punches this year as voters knocked out a pivotal element of his self-styled socialist revolution. Seemingly unstoppable since...