[Discussion] Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies AJAMES New Issue

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From: Akiba Jun <akibajun@yahoo.co.jp>

Dear all,

The new issue of the Annals of Japan Association for
Middle East Studies (AJAMES) has been published.

AJAMES, no.19-2
Contents:
SPECIAL ISSUE: Facing the Other: Israel Identity and
Palestinians in a Jewish State
Preface by Usuki Akira
Dan Rabinowitz. Building a Fence, Constructing an
Identity: Unilateral Separation and the Israeli
Mainstream.
Ahmad H. Sa'di. The Rhetoric of Public Order and the
Excessive Use of Force.
Usuki Akira. Jerusalem in the Mind of the Japanese: Two
Japanese Christian Intellectuals on Ottoman and British
Palestine.

ARTICLES
Okawa Mayuko. Migration and Networks of Omanis: From the
Viewpoint of Social Anthropology (in Japanese).
Mehmet Sait Recber. Al-Ghazali, Platonism and the
Metaphysics of the Self.
Ohta Keiko. The Coptic Church and Coptic Communities in
the Region of al-Ma'mun: A Study of the Social Context of
the Bashmuric Revolt (in Japanese).
Kondo Nobuyaki. The Case of "Doubled Waqf": A Study on
Qajar Shari'a Courts (in Japanese).
Sawae Fumiko. Secularism Marginalized: Islamic Policies
and Civil-Military Relations in Turkey (1980 to Mid-1990s)
(in Japanese).

REPORT
Miura Toru. Survey of Middle East Studies in Japan:
Historical Development, Present State, and Prospectus.

(Articles are written in English unless otherwise
noticed).

In the previous issues we have other articles which might
interest the list members, such as:

Matsumoto Nahoko. The Folk Dance Activities and
Nationalism in Turkey. AJAMES no.18-1 (2003): 53-94.
Misawa Nobuo. Relations between Japan and the Ottoman
Empire in the 19th Century: Japanese Public Opinions about
the Disaster of the Ottoman Battleship Ertugrul (1890).
AJAMES no.18-2 (2003): 9-19.
Ando Junichiro. Japan's 'Hui-Muslim Campains' (Kaimin
Seisaku) in China from the 1910's to 1945: An Introductory
Survey.  AJAMES no.18-2 (2003): 21-38.

Jun Akiba
Chiba University
Japan Association for Middle East Studies
(http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/james/index-e.html)