Articles from The Middle East (June 1, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A History of Women's Seclusion in the Middle East: The Veil in the Looking Glass.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	170
At last-an Iraqi success story: Jon Gorvett reports on the economic success being achieved in the Kurdish region of Iraq.	Gorvett, Jon		1535
Editorial comment: a great burden is being placed upon the shoulders of the Middle East region's youth, if the Petra III Nobel Laureates meeting held in Jordan in mid-May is anything to go by.	Lancaster, Pat	Editorial	707
Essentially Egyptian: raqs sharqi has experienced its fair share of controversy over the generations but despite adversity the power of Middle Eastern dance remains strong and is currently attracting growing global attention. Maria Golia reports from Cairo.	Golia, Maria		1494
Forging stronger ties across the Med: plans to construct a multibillion dollar tunnel beneath the Straits of Gibraltar that will link Morocco and Spain are moving forward.	Ford, Neil		1501
Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the Cia's Secret Rendition Programme.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	193
Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	187
Heroin trading reaches new highs.	Land, Thomas		1508
Honouring the vision: Pat McDonnell Twair talked to the son of legendary Syrian filmmaker Moustapha Akkad, Malek Akkad, who has become a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood in his own right.	Twair, Pat McDonnell	Interview	1370
In our own time, at our own pace, if at all: the seventh forum on democracy, development and free trade was held in Doha at the end of April, when Adel Darwish and Pat Lancaster joined around 500 other participants in the Qatari capital to debate the progress, or otherwise, of reforms in the region.	Darwish, Adel; Lancaster, Pat		2297
Mayhem in the Maghreb: while the counter-terrorism strategy of the western powers and their allies has been focused on Iraq and Afghanistan, jihadists, inspired, and in all probability organised, by Al Qaeda, have been establishing a new front in their "holy war" against the "crusaders": North Africa.	Blanche, Ed		2050
Not much to celebrate.	Black, Jeff		1309
Olmert & after.	Urquhart, Conal		1728
Rumi: Words of Paradise.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	182
Splintering Iraq's insurgency.	Blanche, Ed		1575
The last word.	Darwish, Adel		700
The Savage Border: The Story of the Northwest Frontier.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	196
The Six Day War: 40 years on: as June marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, Bill Parry talked to people from both Israel and Palestine about their memories of the conflict and their reflections on its intractable legacy.	Parry, Bill		1729
Travellers in Arabia: in the 21st century a "special relationship" is said to exist between Saudi Arabia and the UK. Many would claim oil is the common denominator in this affiliation but bilateral ties go back further than that.	Al Yahya, Eid	Book review	486
UAE: the success story surges onwards and upwards.	Siddiqi, Moin		2972
What cost defence of the Gulf? Governmental expenditure on defence among the countries of the Gulf and its neighbours is on the rise as Eamonn Gearon reports.	Gearon, Eamonn		1559
Where Now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two-State Solution.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	188