World War I had a great significance for Middle Eastern history because-by ending four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule-it inaugurated a period of the region’s dependence upon colonial powers. The Iraqi provinces of the ...

During the decades prior to Entente Cordiale, leading European powers consolidated their positions by expanding the spheres of influence – i.e., their colonial/imperial possessions. Great Britain was interested mainly in ...

Salman Rushdie was an author of books well known all over the world, when in 1988 he published his next book fiction under the title of Satanic Verses. It was printed in Great Britain by Viking Penguin Inc. and distributed ...

The Gulf conflict of 1990/1991 was not an incidental event, but the climax in a long chain of events. The deeper causes have their historical, ideological, political, economic and psychological roots. In general, the causes ...

It should be stated at the beginning that the contemporary family in the Islamic World is basically patriarchal, characterized by the domination of the father — head of the family—followed by adult male members in accordance ...

First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), University of Mainz, September 8-13, 2002.

The review of Mohamed Heikal, Secret Channels. The Inside Story of the Arab-Israeli Peace negotiations, Harper Collins Publishers, London 1996, 572 pp.

Euro-Islam: A conference on relations between European and Islamic cultures and on the position of Muslims in Europe, Stockholm, June 15-17, 1995.