Middle East Research and Information Project: Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Fall 1997

Middle East Report 204 surveys key developments inside the countries of the Arabian Peninsula as well as in the subcontinent’s international relations.

Table of Contents
From the Editors (Fall 1997)
Sheila Carapico

Articles
Oil, Gas and the Future of Arab Gulf Countries
Fareed Mohamedi
Arms Supplies and Military Spending in the Gulf
F. Gregory Gause
The Closing of the Arabian Frontier and the Future of Saudi-American Relations
Robert Vitalis
A Clash of Fundamentalisms
Shelagh Weir
Arabia Without Sultans Revisited
Fred Halliday
The Romance of Tahliyya Street
Lisa Wynn
“This Is the Bride”
Janine A. Clark
Bahrain’s Crisis Worsens
Joe Stork
Bringing the Peninsula In from the Periphery
Gwenn Okruhlik

Special Reports
A New Strategy for the Palestinian “Minority” in Israel
Rhoda Kanaaneh, Hatim Kanaaneh
“Nothing More to Lose”
Karim El-Gawhary
M-I-C K-E-Y S-A-‘-U-D

Reviews
History as Social Critique in Syrian Film
Robert Blecher
Letters

Editor’s Picks (Fall 1997)
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