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In his new book, Culture and Conflict in the Middle East (Humanity, 2008), anthropologist Philip Salzman uncovers the roots of contemporary Middle Eastern life deep in the tribal foundation of Arab and Iranian culture. Salzman has conducted ethnographic field research in Iran, India, and Sardinia, and lived among the Yarahmadzai tribe in ...
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 317 pp. $26.95. Kessler, a think tanker and journalist writing his first book, has taken up a topic that ought to be well studied but, as he notes, is not. His impressive immersion in the sources and his lively writing bring the ...
In sum, ethno-religious conflict in the Middle East is unique but not in the way many believe. Yes, religion is disproportionately important in the region’s ethnic conflicts and the region is the most autocratic in the world. But neither of these findings is explained by Islam. Furthermore, most Middle Eastern ethnic conflicts are otherwise ...
Americans’ Shifting Views on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. The positive favorability rating of Israel among Americans is likely related to views on the Israeli and Palestinian political systems. While Israel is a thriving liberal democracy, the PA is a corrupt, ineffective, and failed dictatorship. As the worldwide mass demonstrations ...
With a rich array of textual sources and interviews with key U.S. officials, Cradle of Conflict serves well as a reference for now distant episodes such as the 1994 Iraqi deployment toward the Kuwait border and U.S. military planning spurred by Baghdad’s obstruction of U.N. inspections in 1997 and 1998. His military analysis is astute.
His other works on the Middle East include Black Tents of Baluchistan (2000), Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State (2004), and Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict (edited with D. R. Divine, 2008). He is a member of the Academic Board of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, as well as a member of the editorial ...
Middle East Expert Outlines Gaza Conflict. David Makovsky, an expert from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, recommended regional cooperation and promoting a sense of hope to ease the conflict in Gaza at a lecture on Wednesday evening. Makovsky, who is a senior fellow and director of the Washington Institute’s “Project on the ...
The next edition should consider including the 1930 Passfield white paper, the 1945 Arab League's formation, elements of the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli armistice agreements, resolutions of the 1967 Khartoum and 1974 Arab summit meetings, the September 1975 U. S. -Israeli memorandum of understanding, the December 1975 Brookings Institution panel's ...
Israel Victory Project - Middle East Forum. Israel Victory Project. The Israel Victory Project steers U.S. and Israeli policy toward backing an Israel victory over the Palestinians to end the conflict by convincing the Palestinians of their defeat in their century-long war against Israel. The project offers general policy guidelines does not ...
The great challenge for Christianity in the Sudan, especially in the southern part of the country, is closely linked to the civil war between Sudan’s North and South. This war has raged intermittently since 1955, making it possibly the longest civil conflict in the world. It continues unabated, mostly outside the focus of diplomacy or the ...