Middle East Studies After 9/11: Time for an Audit

Issue Date July 2002
Volume 13
Issue 3
Page Numbers 96-101
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Talk about the Middle East and those who study it has become understandably heated. But we can learn more through a calm assessment of the achievements and weaknesses of this field.

Further Reading

Volume 16, Issue 4

Iran’s Peculiar Election: The Voice of Akbar Ganji

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A review of Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East by Shadi Hamid.

Volume 19, Issue 3

Islamist Parties and Democracy: Are They Democrats? Does It Matter?

The journalistic and policy communities have been alive with speculation as to whether Islamist groups involved in politics—including Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Palestine’s Hamas— are true believers in democracy or…