MELA NOTES

Number 64

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Midhat D. Abraham
Selection of Library Materials for Middle East Studies from Syria

Charlotte Wien
The Tale of the Unhappy Arabic Books--or on the retrieval effectiveness of Arabic

Sanford R. Silverburg
The Middle East and Asia: Bibliographic support for the study of inter-regionalism

Salwa Ferahian
W. C. Smith Remembered


REVIEWS

Hiro: Dictionary of the Middle East (Christof Galli)

Waines: An Introduction to Islam (Salwa Ferahian)

Aburish: The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud (Edward A. Jajko)

Muntaqá min Makhtutat Jami`at Butrusburgh: Kulliyat al-Dirasat al-Sharqiyah (Karl R. Schaefer)

Allen, Kilpatrick, and Moo: Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature (Ragai Makar)

Karimi-Hakkak: Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of poetic modernity in Iran (Soheila Amirsoleimani)

Khwandamir: Habibu's-siyar (Kambiz Eslami)

Daftary: The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis (David Giovacchini)

Landau: Pan-Turkism: From Irredentism to cooperation (Rachel Simon)

Butt: Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza (Sanford R. Silverburg)

Cardinal: In Other Words (Ronen Raz)

Neff: Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945 (Ronen Raz)

Sara Roy: Gaza Strip: The Political economy of de-development (Ronen Raz)


MELA BUSINESS:

MELA Treasurer's Report

Minutes of the 1996 MELA Annual Business Meeting

MELA Directory

Editor's Note

Thanks to the generosity of Dr Gerhard Behrens, you may download the freeware program computus, a calendar conversion program that permits the conversion of dates to and from a variety of calendars, including Islamic, Jewish, and Christian (western).