The Middle East Journal
Vol. LIX      No. 3         Summer  2005

Contents

EDITOR'S NOTE 355
ARTICLES
The United Arab Emirates: Statehood and Nation-Building in a Traditional Society
Frauke Heard-Bey
357
Democratic Development in Oman
Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout
376
Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
393
National Human Rights Institutions in the Middle East
Sonia Cardenas and Andrew Flibbert
411
Women's Parties in Israel: Their Unrecognized Significance and Potential
Esther Hertzog
437
CHRONOLOGY 453

BOOK REVIEWS

475
North Africa's Desperate Regimes
Review Article by Clement M. Henry
475
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT 485
How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process, ed. by Tamara Cofman Wittes
Reviewed by Kevin Avruch
ARMENIANS 486
The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide by Yair Auron
The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, by Yair Auron
Reviewed by Robert O. Krikorian
EGYPT AND JORDAN 489
Radical Islam in Egypt and Jordan, by Nachman Tal
Reviewed by Neil Quilliam
LEBANON 490
Sabra and Shatila: September 1982, by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
Reviewed by Joe Stork
PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS 492
Palestinians in the Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland, by Juliane Hammer
Reviewed by Barbara Aswad
Occupied By Memory: The Intifada Generation and the State of Emergency, by John Collins
Reviewed by Glenn E. Robinson
493
SYRIA
Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire, by Flynt Leverett
Reviewed by Raymond Hinnebusch
494
A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria, by Christa Salamandra
Reviewed by Anne Bennett
496
TURKEY
Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change, by Meliha Benli Altunisik and Özlem Tür
Reviewed by Omer Taspinar
498
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival, by Christopher M. Davidson
Reviewed by Christian Koch
499
YEMEN
Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962-1967, by Jonathan Walker
Reviewed by Spencer Mawby
500
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Energy Developments in the Middle East, by Anthony H. Cordesman
Reviewed by Gawdat Bahgat
502
MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS
Germany and the Middle East, 871-1945, ed. by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
Reviewed by Martin Kröger
503
The Turks in World History, by Carter Vaughn Findley
Reviewed by Mark L. Stein
505
PRE-20TH CENTURY HISTORY
Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City, by John Limbert
Reviewed by Franklin Lewis
506
WOMEN
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, by Saba Mahmood
Reviewed by Cynthia Nelson
507
Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading, by Nimat Hafez Barazangi
Reviewed by Amina Wadud
510
RECENT PUBLICATIONS 512
COMMUNICATIONS 520