Middle East Studies Association Bulletin

Title Publication Date Language Citations
A Quintet of Recent Videotapes on Iran - Iran, A Righteous Republic? 1986. 48 min. Videotape. Producer/director: Tim Hodlin for Imagecrest, Channel 4. Landmark Films, 3450 Slade Run Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042. (703) 241-2030 or 1-800-342-4336. - Iran: Adrift in a Sea of Blood. 1986. 27 min. Producer: Ron Hallis for Hallis Media. Icarus/First Run Films, 200 Park Ave. S., Suite 1319, New York, NY 10003. (212) 674-3375. - Journal from Tehran. 1987. 20 min. Videotape. Producer/director Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri, 86 Jersey Street #4, Boston, MA 02215. (617) 262-8823. - Society of the Just. 1985. 60 min. Videotape. Producer: George Marty; director: François Bardot. L’Image Production for TV Suisse/Romande. Landmark Films, address above. - Paradise of Martyrs. 1986. 55 min. Videotape. Producer: BobPlasto/Shirin for Imago with Journeyman. Landmark Films.1988/12/01English
Two New Reference Works - A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, by Gordon D Newby. Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 2002. 244 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. US$16.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-85168-295-3 - The A to Z of Islam, by Ludwig W Adamec. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2002. 336 pages. US$24.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8108-4505-92004/06/01English
Foreign University Programs1969/05/01English
The River Nile: Geology, Hydrology and Utilization, by Rushdi Said. 320 pages, figures, notes, appendix of references, index. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993. $120.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-08-0418861994/12/01English
Selected Russian Publications - Bibliografiia arabskikh rukopisei (Bibliography of Arabic manuscripts), compiled by I. B. Mikhailova. Izdatel’stvo “Nauka,” Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, Moscow1982.1984/07/01English
RMS volume 28 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1994/12/01English
The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, by Clifford Edmund Bosworth. 389 pages, indices. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-231-10714-51997/07/01English
Once Upon a Time, by Muḥammad ‘Alī Jamālzādah. Translation by Heshmat Moayyad and Paul Sprachman of Yakī būd, yakī nabūd (Modern Persian Literature Series, no. 6.) x + 112 pages. Bibliotheca Persica, New York 1985. $16.00.1988/12/01English
Book Reviews - A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, eds. The Oxford English-Turkish Dictionary [Turkish title: İngilizce-Tüurkçe Sõozlük]. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. xvi +619 pp.1979/12/01English
RMS volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1992/12/01English
Lebanon’s Predicament, by Samir Khalaf. xiv + 328 pages, glossary, index. Columbia University Press, New York1987. $30.00.1988/07/01English
Rouhollah K. Ramazani, Iran’s Foreign Policy 1941-1973 : A Study of Foreign Policy in Modernizing Nations (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975). Pp. 507 + xiv. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $20.00.1976/05/01English
Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006)2006/12/01English
Iran and Iraq: The Threat from the Northern Gulf, by Anthony H. Cordesman. 380 pages, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. $24.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8133-2367-31996/07/01English
The Max Van Berchem Foundation1990/12/01English
Abayudaya: Music From The Jewish People of Uganda. Compiled and annotated by Jeffrey A. Summit. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Washington, DC., 2003.32 pages of notes in English. 5 photographs. One compact disk, 24 tracks (60 min.). US$16.98 SFW CD 405042007/06/01English
National Security: The Israeli Experience, by Israel Tal. Translated by Martin Kett. 249 pages, index. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. $55.00 ISBN 0-275-96812-X2002/01/01English
Interactive Conflict Resolution, by Ronald J. Fisher. 295 pages. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8156-2715-71999/01/01English
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, by Kanan Makiya. 323 pages, appendix, chronology, tables, footnotes, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. $17.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-520-21439-02000/01/01English
Studies in the Medieval History of the Yemen and South Arabia, by G. Rex. Smith (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS574) 322 pages, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1997. $94.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86078-641-21998/01/01English
Islam and the Heroic Image: Themes in Literature and the Visual Arts, by John Renard. (Studies in Comparative Religion) 342 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, glossary, appendix. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87249-832-81993/12/01English
Placement Listings1978/02/01English
Recent Publications1977/05/01English
Reply to Sonbol1993/12/01English
The Jordanian-Palestinian Relationship: The Bankruptcy of the Confederal Idea, by Musa S. Braizat. 234 pages, notes, bibliography, index. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998. $59.50 (Cloth) ISBN 1-86064-291-81999/01/01English
Fellowships and Grants Available1974/02/15English
Placement Opportunities1972/05/01English
W. D. Davies. The Territorial Dimension of Judaism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. 160 pp., glossary, bibliography, indexes. $14.951983/12/01English
Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society, by Robert B. Cunningham & Yasin K. Sarayrah. 209 pages, bibliography, index. Westport, CT & London: Praeger Publishers, 1993. $47.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-275-9440-2-61994/12/01English
The Qur'ān: A Short Introduction by Farid Esack. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002. 214 pages, bibliography, index. US$15.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-85168-231-72003/12/01English