205 - MERIP

Winter 1997

Middle East Report 205 checks up on the politics of the field of Middle East studies in the US and elsewhere.


From the Editor (Winter 1997)
Articles
(Re)Made in the USA	Steve Niva, Lisa Hajjar
Following the Flag	irene gendzier
What is Political Islam?	Charles Hirschkind
Middle East Studies in the Arab World	Salim Nasr
The Privatization of Russian Middle East Studies	Garay Menicucci
No Debate	Eugene Rogan
From One East to the Other	Modjtaba Sadria
Women and Gender in Middle East Studies	Simona Sharoni
Women and Gender in Middle East Studies: A Roundtable Discussion	Ellen Fleischmann
The End of the Counterrevolution?	Yahya Sadowski
Special Reports
Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Tunisia	Christopher Alexander
Poetry	Mohja Kahf
Modernization and Family Planning in Egypt	Kamran Asdar Ali
Reviews
The Israeli Peace Movement	Joel Beinin
Letter

Editor’s Picks (Winter 1997)