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CONTENTS

DYNAMICS OF OCCUPATION
• Occupation Means For Territorial Ends: Rethinking Forty Years Of Israeli Rule. Rema Hammami with Salim Tamari
• Political Economy Of Occupation: What Is Colonial About It? Leila Farsakh
• Israel’s Dual Regime Since 1967. Lev Grinberg

DYNAMICS OF RESISTANCE
• The PLO and the Naksa: The Struggle for a Palestinian State. Alain Gresh
• Palestinian Women's Movements – From Active Militants to Stateless Citizens. Islah Jad
• Arts under Occupation in the West Bank nnd Gaza Strip. Nadia Yacub
• Dynamics of Resistance: The Apartheid Analogy. Nancy Murray

THE WAY FORWARD
• The Birth, Demise and Future Prospective Of One Palestine Complete. Ilan Pappe
• Between Nakba and Naksa: Palestinian Intellectuals in Israel Articulating Meanings • Of Homeland And Citizenship. Honaida Ghanim
• Myths and Realities of the Palestinian Refugee Problem: Reframing The Right Of Return. Susan Akram

EPITAPHS
• How I Remember the 1967 War. Salim Tamari
• From the Naksa Back to the Nakba: The 1967 War and the One State Solution. Ghada Karmi
• The Miraculous Phrase. Adi Ophir

THE PALESTINIAN ISRAELI CONFLICT: A CHRONOLOGY (1947-2007)

RELEVANT DOCUMENTS

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTIONS
• UN Resolution 181
• UN Resolution 194
• UN Resolution 242
• UN Resolution 338

THE BEIRUT SUMMIT DECLARATION

BOOK REVIEWS

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

• Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (ed.), The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel 1993-2005. Reviewed by Amir Asmar
• David Commins, The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia. Reviewed by Itzchak Weismann

URBAN CULTURES
• Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950. Reviewed by Eleni Gara. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Image of an • Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Reviewed by Ciğdem Kafescioğlu

OTTOMAN HISTORY
• Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Reviewed by Jane Hathaway
• Iris Agmon, Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine. Reviewed by Lisa Pollard
• Boğac A. Ergene, Local Court, Provincial Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Legal Practice and Dispute Resolution in Cankırı and Kastamonu (1652-1744). Reviewed by Najwa al-Qattan
• Maurits H. van den Boogert, The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System. Qadis, Consuls and Beratlis in the 18th Century. Reviewed by Katerina Papakonstantinou

IRANIAN STUDIES
• Hamid Dabashi, Iran: A People Interrupted. Reviewed by Kouross Esmaeli
• Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900. Reviewed by Babak Rahimi

HISTORIES OF SEXUALITY
• Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity. Reviewed by Ranin Kazemi
• Khaled el-Rouayheb, Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800. Reviewed by Amal Ghazal

ISLAMIC HISTORY
• David A. King, In Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization. Reviewed by Robert Morrison