Posted in Iran, Jacqueline Newmyer, Philip Carl Salzman, Stephen Peter Rosen on Jul 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Jacqueline Newmyer and Stephen Peter Rosen Seymour Hersh has recently alleged that the United States government is engaged in clandestine activities to destabilize Iran through appeals to ethnic and religious minorities. We hope that he is mistaken, not because we oppose regime change in Iran but because the history of Iran teaches that governments […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Books, Daniel Byman, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Michael Horowitz, Michael Reynolds, Michael Young, Philip Carl Salzman, Robert Satloff, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich on Jul 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
With August fast approaching, MESH has asked its members to recommend a book for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.)
Posted in Announcements, Iran, Philip Carl Salzman on Jun 20th, 2008 Comments Off on Politics and Change among the Baluch in Iran
From Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer We are pleased to announce a new paper, the second in our Middle East Papers series. Philip Carl Salzman, professor of anthropology at McGill University and a member of MESH, offers an interpretation of what he calls “Islamic intensification” among the Baluch of southeastern Iran. Often it is […]
Posted in Books, Israel, Palestinians, Philip Carl Salzman on May 27th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Philip Carl Salzman is professor of anthropology at McGill University and a member of MESH. His new book (with Donna Robinson Divine) is Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel […]
Posted in Israel, Philip Carl Salzman on May 14th, 2008 Comments Off on The rules of war
From Philip Carl Salzman Let us imagine (in the style of political philosophers) that a small country, for illustration let’s say Paraguay, is deemed by its neighbors to be a usurper and illegitimate. Further, that on numerous occasions, Uruguay to the southeast, Bolivia to the southwest, and Chile to the far west, mount military campaigns […]
Posted in Culture, Lebanon, Philip Carl Salzman, Terrorism on May 11th, 2008 Comments Off on Clashes in Beirut
From Philip Carl Salzman After modest initiatives in recent days by the Lebanese government to restrict the independent operations of Hezbollah, fighters of Hezbollah and Amal flooded into the streets of west Beirut, attacked and dispersed government fighters, set up road blocks, and occupied government and media offices. The Druze and Christian militias did not […]
Posted in Announcements, Mark T. Clark, Philip Carl Salzman on May 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
From Mark T. Clark I am happy to report that the inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (AMESA) on April 25-26, 2008 went extremely well. The title of the conference was “Evolution of Islamic Politics, Philosophy and Culture in the Middle East and Africa: From Traditional Limits […]
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