Articles from The Middle East (March 1, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	186
Back to the future? Jon Gorvett reports from Istanbul, where the events of a decade ago helped shape Turkey's present and could have an important influence on the country's future.	Gorvett, Jon		1209
Children of the occupation: another generation of children in Hebron is facing severe psychological damage as a result of the Israeli occupation. Mel Frykberg reports from Jerusalem.	Frykberg, Mel		834
Commanding Syria: Bashar Al Assad and the First Years in Power.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	179
Countering Terrorism: Can We Meet the Threat of Global Violence?	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	180
Dismantling a living world heritage site: Pat McDonnell Twair reports on Israeli moves to rearrange the boundaries of ancient Bethlehem and the heroic efforts of Maxim and Leila Sansour to bring this travesty of justice to the attention of the international community.	Twair, Pat McDonnell		1113
Editorial comment: the decision to suspend construction work--the building of a footbridge--in the area of the Al Aqsa Mosque, known by the Arabs as the Haram al Sharif and by the Jews as Temple Mount, was a victory for common sense more than for any side in the conflict which raged for a day in February claiming 40 injured; 23 Palestinian protestors and 17 Israeli police personnel.	Lancaster, Pat	Editorial	448
Egypt's China fever: Maria Golia examines the 50-year-old diplomatic relationship between China and Egypt and finds it going from strength to strength.	Golia, Maria		1513
Europa Regional Surveys Of The World: The Middle East and North Africa 2007.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	172
Fanning the flames of dissent: Joseph Mayton reports from Beirut.	Mayton, Joseph		985
Frankincense, Oman's Gift to the World.	Wells, Rhona		1311
Greening the desert: Egypt has exciting plans to utilise its valuable water resources to promote agriculture and help draw its burgeoning population away from the densely over populated towns and cities, using private and public funding.	Skinner, Anthony		1225
Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	183
On the slippery slope: action must be taken if large-scale environmental disaster is to be avoided in the Middle East and North Africa region, as Thomas Land reports.	Land, Thomas		1228
Pending the results of Mecca: last month, Saudi Arabia brokered a deal in Mecca aimed at bringing Palestine's opposing Fatah and Hamas factions together. Adel Darwish examines the prospects for the Occupied Territories and the kingdom's larger role in the region as a whole.	Darwish, Adel		1650
Pots & Kettles: after more than half a century of argument and violent conflict the Palestinians and the Israelis continue to hurl insults at each other. But while the ordinary citizens caught in the middle suffer, the leadership of neither of the two groups can claim to be blameless. Mel Frykberg reports from Jerusalem.	Frykberg, Mel		2566
Saudi banking goes international.	Ford, Neil		1529
State-owned oil and gas: who gains, who loses? The oil producers of the Gulf have learned important lessons about privatising their energy resources. Could Russia and Latin America learn from their example?	Smith, Pamela Ann		2201
The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths and World Oil Futures.	Rhodes, Fred	Book review	190
The hidden hand: middle east tensions rise as the United States escalates its clandestine operations in Iraq to combat Tehran's equally covert campaign.	Blanche, Ed		2599
The last word.	Darwish, Adel		722
Tightening the screw: using economics as a political weapon, Washington's battle against Iran gathers momentum as Gulf allies help drive down oil prices to weaken the Tehran regime.			2027
Wooing foreign investors: challenges and opportunities.	Siddiqi, Moin		3448