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Number 33 Fall, 1984

CONTENTS

From the Editor 3

Bdok Publications on the Iran-Iraq War: 5A Partial Bibliography

Joseph Gardner

Book Reviews 15

Meetings 25

News of Members 27

MELA Membership Roster 1984 27

Job Offerings 35

Number 33 Fall, 1984

MELA Notes

ISSN 0364-2410

MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION

Marsha Hamin ., PresidentOhio State University

Abazar Sepehri Vice-president/ProgramUniversity of Texas--Austin Chair

Dona Straley Secretary-TreasurerOhio State University

Dunning Wilson EditorUniversity of California,Los Angeles

Mela Notes is published three times a year, in winter,spring, and fall. It is distributed to members of theAssociation and to nonmember subscribers. Membershipdues of $10.00 bring Notes and other mailings. Sub-scriptions are $10.00 per calendar year, or $3.00 perissue for most back numbers. Address dues, requests formembership information, or subscriptions to Dona Straley,Secretary-Treasurer, MELA, Main Library Room 308, 1858Nell Avenue Mall, Ohio State University, Columbus,Ohio 43210.

From the Editor

The following articles may serve the interest of ourreaders. In case of inaccessibility, photo copies maybe requested from the editor. LC Information Bulletin,43, 38 (September 17, 1984) contains (pp. 303-304) "BookReview Journals from the Arab World," by Michael Albin.The September 1984 issue of Arabia (London) contains anextensive advertising/information section (pp. 73 ff.)on the Arab world and Arabic publishing. College t Re-search Libraries News, 45, 4 (April, 1984) contains acurrent report(pp.172-174) on the American Universityof Beirut Library by its librarian, Samuel Fustukjian,as well as an article (pp. 175-177) on library developmentin Oman by Harvey Varnet.

MELA's annual business meeting and program will beheld in conjunction with the Middle East Studies AssociationConference in San Francisco, November 28-December 1, 1984.MELA activities will be held on Wednesday, November 28,at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel. During the conference, anexhibit of early printing in the Middle East, organizedthrough the efforts and resources of the UCLA and UCBerkeley libraries, will be displayed in the UC BerkeleyBancroft Library. For ALA Chicago (1985), the Asian andAfrican Section is planning a program, with joint sponsor-ship from the Government Documents Roundtable and theInternational Relations Roundtable, on the topic, Asiaand Africa in Washington: Materials Gathered and Used bythe U.S. Government.

In closing the chapter on my participation as editorof MELA Notes, I acknowledge with gratitude and goodwillthe cooperation and patience of the readers and contributors.Your interests, ideas, and advice have made the experiencefun and enriching.

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MELA NOTES 33, Fall, 1984

BOOK PUBLICATIONS ON THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR:A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joseph Gardner

Publications on the Iran-Iraq war have grown steadilysince the outbreak of the war in September 1980. Period-ical and newspaper coverage has been extensive. The U.S.Foreign Broadcast Information Service, in addition tobeaming radio broadcasts, issues the Daily Report: MiddleEast and Africa Index which provides access to newspaperand periodical articles. Baqir Raza Mehdi (University ofBasra) has begun indexing periodical literature on theconflict. Book publications have been less numerous, ofcourse, but many titles have been and continue to be issuedby Western and Middle Eastern publishers. Bibliographiccontrol of this material has not yet been undertaken. Inthe first quarter of 1982 the Library of Congress createdthe subject heading "Iraqi-Iranian Conflict, 1980-" whichis a step in that direction. A London Bibliography ofthe Social Sciences and the Cumulative Book Index havealso adopted this heading, andit is expected that othersimilar sources for new publications will eventually useit or a similar heading. In this partial bibliography Ihave listed publications cited in various new publicationsources. The extension of the war into the Gulf regionwidened the dimension of the conflict, and material onthis subject will be included in a future bibliographicalarticle. The Library of Congress guidelines for trans-literation of Arabic and Persian are used.

In the first year of the conflict Western publishersbegan issuing titles on the war. Since 1980 and up tothe time this issue went to press twenty-one titles inWestern languages with a European or North American imprinthave been published, with English-language titles pre-dominating. In the frequently issued guides to newpublications for European languages subject access islimited and searching for new books on the war is verytime consuming. The Quarterly Index Islamicus and the"Recent Publications" section in the Middle East Journalcover new publications on the war well(some Middle Easternpublications are also included). In neither is a specificsubject heading for the war assigned; some issues of theIndex Islamicus have the subject heading "The Gulf."

The difficulties in identifying and locating newpublications issued in Iran and in Arab countries are wellknown (Atiyeh, pp. 189-191). The national bibliographyof Iran, Kitabshinasl-i milli: intisharati-i Iran, hasnot been published since the collapse of the Pahlavi regime.

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The Iraqi national bibliography, al-Fihns al-watanllil-matbucat al-clraqlyah, has not issued any volumessince the war began. National bibliographies of otherArab countries are similarly slow to be published (ibid.,p. 187).

The serial Ayandah ameliorates the problems ofbibliographic control of new Persian language publications.It contains bibliographies and book reviews of recentPersian books on Iran (ibid., p. 188). The Library ofCongress Accessions List: Middle East is the single mostfruitful source for the identification of new Arabicimprints (the Accessions List includes some Iranianimprints). Locating Middle Eastern publications on thewar proved to be difficult in the United States. Manytitles that are cited, including many cited in the Ac-cessions List, could not be found through the interTTbraryloan procedure (the titles are indicated below by anasterisk; the source where the title is cited is inparentheses). The situation should thus improve as thelibraries subscribing to the Library of Congess MiddleEast acquisition program receive and add the titles totheir collections.

Bibliography

Background and Development of the War*Agha, Husayn. Qadaya al-khalip al-Arabl. Bayrut:al-Mucasasah al-cArabiyah Iil-Dir5s5t wa-al-Nashr; Lundun:Markaz al-cAlam al-Thalith lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr, 1982.212 p. (Accessions List 21, 3 [May-June 1983), 208)

Aqill, Sayyid Mahmud Musallami. Ikhtilafat-i Iran_va clraqdar khugus-i haqq-i hakimiyat va huquq-i kashtirani duklshvar dar Arvand Rud (Shatt al-GArab).Tihr3n:Chapkhanah-i Sipihr, 1359/1980. 155 p.

The Iranian viewpoint of the boundary disputes withIraq over the Arvan Rud (Shatt al-Arab) during the lasthundred years. Published at the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war. The treaties of 1937 and 1975 are discussed indetail. The appendix reproduces protocols and treatiesfrom 1884 to the March 6, 1975 Algiers Declaration.Bibliography.

*cAwwad, Nasif. Kalam hadia . . . fl jaww multahib.[Baghdad] ': al-Jumhurlyah al-clraqlyah, Wizarat al-Thiqafahwa-al-cAlam, Da'irat al-cAlam al-Dakhili al-cSmmah,[1980]. 100 p. (Accessions List 22, 1 [Jan.-Feb. 1984],36.) —————————————

Aziz, Tariq. The Iraq-Iran Conflict; Questions and Dis-cussions. London: Third World Center for Research andPublishing, 1981. 89 p.

A translation of a collection of ten articles first

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published in the journal al-Watan al-cArabI (Paris) onthe origins of the conflict, how long it will continue,its connection to the Arab-Israeli dispute, and Iran'srole in the Arab-Israeli dispute. The appendix containsthree articles published April 25, May 2, and May 9,1981 on Iran-Iraq relations. Tariq Aziz is deputy PrimeMinister of Iraq and a member of the national commandof the Bacth Party.

On the Iraqi-Iranian Conflict. [London]:Iraqi Cultural Center,[1981].16 p.{Quarterly IndexIslamicus, 7, 2 [April 1983], 64)

*Basri, Mahdi Husayn. al-Hawqif al-qawml al-tarikhl izacaal-tahaddi ai-Farsi. Baghdad^al-Jumhurlyah al-cArabiyahWizarat al-Thiqafah wa-al-cAlam, Da'irat al-Alamal-Dakhili al-cAmmah, [1981]. 90 p. (Accessions List,21, 6 [Nov.-Dec. 1983], 537) ————————————

*Benabdallah, Abdelkadar. La question duChatt-el-Arab:^aspects geographique, historique et juridique.Montreal:Ed.Canada-Monde arabe,1983. 170 p.(Repertoireslivres hebdo [Jan.-June 1983], p. 199)

*E1 conflicto iraqui-irani: expediente documental.[Baghdad:Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores], 1981.315 p. (A London Bibliography, 61 [1983], 371)

A Conversation with Dr. Saddoun Hammadi: Iraq's ForeignPolicy"Washington,D.C.:American Enterprise Institutefor Public Policy Research, 1981. 14 p.

A speech to the American Enterprise Institute by theforeign minister of Iraq on October 2, 1981. It includesa discussion of the Iran-Iraq war. There is also aquestion and answer session with Dr. Hammadi.

Dessouki, Ali E. Hillal, ed. The Iraq-Iran War: Issues ofConflict and Prospects for Settlement.Princeton:Centerfor International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Publicand International Affairs, Princeton University, 1981.119 p.

Proceedings of a seminar of Middle Eastern specialistsheld April 30, 1981 by the Center for InternationalStudies. An overview of the conflict is given with paperson the perceptions of the adversaries, global and regionalimplications, and approaches to a settlement. The ap-pendix contains the March 6, 1975 Algiers Declaration andthe June 13, 1975 frontier treaty between Iran and Iraq.

El Azhary, M. S., ed. The Iran-Iraq War; An Historical,Economic, and Political Analysis. London;Croom Helm, etc.cl984.——144 p. —————————— ——

A collection of papers most of which were originallydelivered at the symposium "Shatt al-Arab" held in July1982 at the University of Exeter by its Centre for ArabGulf Studies and the University of Basra Centre for ArabGulf Studies. The historical background of the dispute,the economic and political situation of the conflicttoday, the international and regional significance, and


the prospects for resolution of the conflict are surveyed.Grummon, Stephen R. The Iran-Iraq War: Islam Embattled.New York: Praeger; published with the Center forStrategic Studies, Georgetown University, WashingtonD.C., 1982. The Washington Papers/92 vol. x. 103 p.

Grummon, a specialist on Iran for the Bureau ofIntelligence and Research, Department of State, analyzesthe military course of the war, its impact on domesticpolicies, regional and superpower responses and futuremilitary and political implications of the war. Aconcise introduction to the regional politics of thesurrounding states and superpower interests.

*Heradstveit, Daniel. Krigen Irak-Iran; Fordrag holdei det Norske Studentersainfund 3 oktober 1980~I Oslo:Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 1980.Publication no. 195. 14 p. (Middle East Journal, 35,3 [Summer 1981] , 437)

*Hunseler, Peter. Per Irak und sein Konflikt mit Iran:Entwicklung, innenpolitische Bestimmungsfaktoren undPerspektiven. Bonn: Forschungsinstitut der DeutschenGesellschaf t fur Auswartige Politik: Vertreib, EuropaUnion Verlag, 1982. 149 p. (Middle East Journal, 37,3 [Summer 1983] , 515)

*Husayn, Saddam. Iraq Addresses Islamic World on Conflict'with Iran: President Saddam Hussein's Speech of theIslamic Summit in Taif, 1981. Trans. Namir A. Mudhaff,ecT A. W. Lucluca. Baghdad : Translation and ForeignLanguages Publishing House, 1981. 51 p. (AccessionsList, 22, 1 [Jan. -Feb. 1984], 37)

Min Caqwal al-qa'id qadislyah gaddim.ammad Tawalibah. [Baghdad] :Hasan Muhammad Tawalibah. [Baghdad]

al-Jumhurlyah al-clraqlyah Wizarat al-Thiq3fahwa-al-cAlam, 1981. 103 p.

A selection of public statements of Saddam Husaynmade between 1980 and 1981 on the situation in Iran,Iraqi claims to the contested lands , and the battlebetween the two countries.

. Saddam Hussein on the Conflict with___________Iran: A Press Conference held on 10 Nov. 1980.London : Embassy of the Republic of Iraq, 1980? .58 p. (Library of Congress Catalogs: Subject Catalog,1982, v. 8, p. 771)

The Iraq-Iran Conflict. 1st ed. Paris: Editions duMonde Arabe, 1981. 335 p.

Prepared by the Institute of Study and Research of"Editions du Monde Arabe" and published simultaneouslyin Arabic, French, and English. The historical back-ground to the conflict, the immediate events leadingup to the conflict, and the course of the war is ex-plained. Iraqi viewpoint. Included are several Iraqidocuments pertaining to the war and reprints of frontiertreaties between Iraq and Iran in the appendix.


*The Iraqi-Iranian Conflict: Documentary Dossier.[Baghdad]:Republic of Iraq, Ministry of ForeignAffairs Committee, 1981. 333 p. (Quarterly IndexIslamicus, 7, 1 [Jan. 1983], 21)

*The Iraqi-Iranian Dispute; Facts v. Allegations.[Baghdad]:Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1981. 70 p.(Middle East Journal, 35, 1 [Winter 1981], 96

Ismael, Tareq. The Iraq-Iran Conflict. Behind theHeadlines, v. 39, no. 3. Toronto: Canadian Instituteof International Affairs, 1981. 20 p.

A brief discussion of the historical, legal, ideo-logical, regional, and international dimensions ofthe conflict.

___________. Iraq and Iran: Roots of Conflict.Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1982. 2~2~6 p.

A comprehensive selection of documents dealing withlegal, historical, ideological, and political issuespertaining to the Iran-Iraq conflict. There is aforty-page introduction to the historical background,the legal dimensions, and ideological aspects of theconflict.

*Izzi, Khalid. The Iraqi-Iranian Border's Dispute.Baghdad: General Federation of Iraqi Women, 1980.191 p. (Quarterly Index Islamicus, 7, 3 [July 1983],292)

Jang va tajavuz^ Jibhah-i impiriyallsti-i alayah-iinqilab-I Islaml.Tihran: Daftar-i Siyasi-i Sipah-iPasdaran-i Inqil5b-i IslSml, 19B1. 157 p.

A collection of articles on the war which includesdeclarations of Khomeini, Iranian views of the Frenchand American posture toward Saddam Husayn, and economicproblems resulting from the war. Many of the articlesare reprints from journals.

*Jasim, Latif. al-cAlam wa-al-Macraka. Baghdad: [s.n.],1981.

"A handbook for those wishing to present Iraq's sideof the Iran-Iraq war." (Middle East Journal, 36, 4[Autumn 1982], 631)

Khomeini, Ruhollah. Imam va jang. [Tihran]: Sitad-ibarguzari Salgard-i Jang-i Tahinill, [1981]. 80 p.

Selections from Khomeini's speeches dealing with theIran-Iraq war. The eight chapters are entitled "WhyWar?", "War and Its Blessings," "Acceptance of Compro-mise Means Annilation of Islam," "Jihad for the Preser-vation of the Maktab," "The Good Nation without Equal,""We are Victorious," "Troops of the Imam Zaman," and"Unity, the Secret of Victory."

*_____________. Messages for Black Friday, the 8th ofSeptember/17th Sharivar. Tehran; Council for theCelebrations of the Third Anniversary of the Victoryof the Islamic Revolution, 1982. 17 p. (Quarterly IndexIslamicus, 8, 1 [Jan. 1984], 31)


*Limadha ulghiyat ittifaqlyat al-jaza*ir bayna al-clraqwa-Iran.Baghdad:al-Jumhurlyah al-^Iraqlyah, Wizaratal-Thiqafah al-cA15m, D3>irat al-cAlam al-Dakhilial-cAmmah, [1980]. 87 p. (Library of Congress Catalogs:Subject Catalog, 1982, v. 8, p. 771)

*Najm, Nurl. al-cUdwan al-Farsi: al-asblb wa-al-dawlfic.Baghdad: Dar al-Hurrlyah, 1981.71 p.(Middle EastJournal, 36, 4 [Autumn 1982], 632)

*al-Niza^ al-clraql_al-lrani. [Baghdad?]: al-Jumhuriyahal-clraqlyah, Wizarat al-Kharijiyah, al-Lajnahal-Istisharlyah, [1981]. (Library of Congress Catalogs:Subject Catalog, July-Sept.1982, v. 2, p. 619)

Qadislyat Saddam: cadad majmu^ah min al-sahifiyinal-CArab fl al-Kuwayt al-tabc al-cawwall.Kuwayt:Asdar dar al-Risalah lil-Sihafah wa-al-Tab5Cahwa-al-Nashr, 1980. 168 p.

A collection of unsigned articles written by Arabjournalists on the Iran-Iraq conflict. Includes apublic address delivered by Saddam Husayn on the eveningof September 28, 1980 and_letters written by Iraqiofficials to Mahdl Bazargan, Fidel Castro, and theSecretary General of the United Nations.

*Salman, Sabah. Adwac cala al-harb al-clraqlyah al-Iranlyan.Baghdad: Ministry of Culture and Information,1981.194 p. (Middle East Journal, 36, 4 [Autumn 1982], 631)

*___________. al-Qa*id wa-al-macraka. Baghdad: [s.n.],1981.22 p.

"A laudatory account of Iraq's president SaddamHusayn's leadership of Iraq's war with Iran." (MiddleEast Journal, 36, 4 [Autumn 1982], 631)

Selections from the Iraqi-Iranian Dispute. [S.I.: s.n.,1981?] 197 p. '_

Probably an Iraqi publication. Contains Iranianstatements from the VJestern and Middle Eastern newsmedia against Iraq, the Arabs, and Gulf states. Thereis a compilation of hostile Iranian acts against Iraqand public statements indicating Iran refused to nego-tiate with Iraq. An appendix reproduces nineteenth- andtwentieth-century Iran-Iraq border treaties and somediplomatic communications. Maps of Iranian territorialexpansion.

Tahir-Kheli, Shirin, and Shaheen Ayubi, eds. The Iran-Iraq War; New Weapons, Old Conflicts. New York:Praeger, 1983. 210 p.

A collection of thoughtful and well-written articlesby authorities on the Gulf area which identifies causesof the war, its consequences on the domestic politicsof Iran and Iraq, the Arab world and the interests ofthe United States and the Soviet Union in the Gulf.An excellent introduction to the complexities of thewar.


I al-Rahman. al-Muwajahah al-°ArabIyah.L-Wacy al-CArabi, 1982.238 p.

Sultan, °AbdCairo: al-

Written by the editor in chief of Majallat al-wacyal-cArabi, the author examines in parts 1 to 3 Iran'slong history of interest in the Gulf and Arab-Iraniananimosity. Parts 4 and 5 cover the dispute over theShatt al-Arab up through the current war and thepositions of Arab and non-Arab states on the conflict.Appendix 2 reproduces the provisions for the 1975Algiers Declaration and its protocols. Arab viewpoint.Bibliography.

*Tamara, Nasir. Perang Iran-perang Irak. Jakarta:Penerbit Sinar Harapan,1981.249 p.(Library ofCongress Catalogs: Subject Catalog, 1983, fiche ed.)

*Views on War: A Selection of Articles from InternationalPress Concerning the Iraq-Iran War.Compiled andedited by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance. Tehran:Council for the Celebrations of the Third Anniversaryof the Victory of the Islamic Revolution, 1982. 56 p.(Accessions List, 21, 3 [May-June 1983], 202)

*Vu, The-Quyen, et al., eds. Per Iranisch-IrakischeKonflikt: Bin Dreig ohne Gewinner.Bonn:Forschungsinstitut Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1981.Analysen aus der Abteilung Entwicklunglunglander-forschung, nos. 98, 99. 135 p. (Middle EastJournal, 38, 2 [Spring 1984], 360)

*War against Revolution: A Study of the Bases for theIraqi Regime's Aggression against Iran.Tehran:[s.n.],1981.102 p.(Quarterly Index Islamicua, 7,2 [Apr. 1983], 50)

Economic Issues*Kanovsky, Eliyahu. Iran-Iraq War; Its Economic Impli-cations. Occasional Papers.Tel Aviv:Shiloah Centerfor Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel AvivUniversity, 1983. 23 p.

(University of California, Berkeley fiche catalogstates "in process")

United States. Congress. House Committee on GovernmentOperations. Environment, Energy and Natural ResourcesSubcommittee. Effect of Iraqi-Iranian conflict on U.S.Energy Policy. Washington, D.C.:USGPO, 1981.70 p.

Proceedings of a hearing of the Subcommittee heldSeptember 30, 1980. The focus of the hearing was theimpact of the conflict on the exportation of oil fromthe Gulf with the objective of avoiding policy errorsmade during previous crises that threatened oil suppliesfrom the region. Industry and government employeesfamiliar with the Gulf region testified.

Legal IssuesAmin, S. H. (Sayed Hassen). The Iran-Irag War: Legal


Implications. Glasgow: S. H. Amin, [1982?].Pp.193-218. Reprinted from Marine Policy, 6, 3(July 1982).

A significant study of Iranian and Iraqi sov-ereignty claims to the Shatt al-Arab and parts of theGulf coastline under international law. The legalfindings of the Third United Nations Conference onthe Law of the Sea are applied to the boundary dispute.

*FatlawI, Suhayl H^ Qadislyat Saddam fI dawcahkamal-qanun al-dawll. Baghdad:[s.n.],1981.

An Iraqi view of what international law has to sayabout the Iran-Iraq war." (Middle East Journal, 36,4 [Autumn 1982], 634}

Izzi, Khalid. The Shatt al-Arab Dispute: A Legal Study.3d ed. London": Third World Center for Research andPublishing, 1981. 243 p.

Examines the legal history of Iraqi and Iranianclaims over the Shatt al-Arab from the seventeenththrough twentieth centuries. Strong presentation ofIraqi case. Third edition covers the Iran-Iraq war.Documents and bibliography.

Shacban, Abd al-Husayn. al-Nizjc al-clraqi al-Iranl:mulahazat wa-ara^ fldawc al-qanun al-dawll.Bayrut:Manshurat al-Tarlq al-Jadid, 1981.86 p.

Legalistic interpretation of the conflict in thelight of international law.

The War and Foreign Interests*GAbd al-Jalil al-Rashid. al-cAlaqat al-clraqiyahmin khilal khutab wa-ahadith al-Sayyid al-Ra»isal-Qa^id Saddam Ifosayn. Baghdad: Dar al-Hurriyah,1981.43 p.fMi.ddle East Journal, 36, 4 [Autumn 1982],631)

Gordon, Murray, ed. Conflict in the Persian Gulf. NewYork: Facts on File, 1981. 173 p.—————————

Discusses America's efforts to achieve stability inthe Gulf and maintain her political and economicinterests in the region. The destabilizing effect ofthe Iranian revolution and the impact of the Iran-Iraqwar on American Gulf relations are highlighted.

Iran-Iraq War. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Public Affairs,U.S. Dept. of State, 1983. 2 p. A Gist newsletterdated November 1983.

A short Department of State review of the background,current situation, mediation efforts and U.S. relationswith Iraq and Iran in the course of the war.

Linde, Gerd. Per Krieg am Persischen Golf und die UdSSR.Koeln: Bundesinstitut fur Ostwissenschaftliche unclInternationale Studien, c!981. 44 p.

Recent Soviet-Iraqi and Soviet-Iranian relationsand the Soviet attitude toward the Iran-Iraq conflictare discussed.


Fiction*al-Diwan al-shicrl: (qasa'id wa-anashid). [Baghdad]:Lajnat cldad BOhOth QSdisiyat Saddam, 1981- (Libraryof Congress Catalogs: Subject Catalog, 1982, v. 8,p. 771)

*QadisIyat Saddam: qisas tahta lahlb al-nar. Baghdad:Da'irat ai-Shucun al-Thiqaflyah, 1981, 2 v. (Acces-sions List, 21, 5 [Sept.-Oct. 1983], 454)

Photographic Essays*Faces of War: A Pictorial Report on the Iraq-Iran War,1980-8TTTehran:Ministry of Guidance, 1983.112 p.(Middle East Journal, 37, 1 [Winter 1983], 125)

*Jang birravayat tasvlr = al-harb kama naru al-suwwar =the war as represented by photos. Tihran: IntisharatSurush, 1982.292 p.(Accessions List, 21, 4 [July-Aug.1983], p. 292)

*Mirror of War: A Pictorial Report on the Iraqi RegimeAggressions against Iran. Tehran: Offset Press, 1981.219 p.(Quarterly Index Islamicus, 7, 3 [July 1983], 119)

References

Atiyeh, George N. "Acquisitions from the Middle East,"Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, 6, 2(1982), 189-194.———— ——————————————————

Cataloging Service Bulletin, 19 (Winter 1982), 4.Mehdi, Baqir Raza. "Iraq-Iran War: An Index to PeriodicalLiterature Available in the Centre," The Arab Gulf,13, 4 (1981), 343-287 (sic). The Centre is the Centerfor Arab Gulf Studies, University of Basra.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Belkacem Baccouche and Sanaa Azmi, Conversations in ModernStandard Arabic. New Haven, ConnT-Yale UniversityPress, 1984. $"35 (cloth), $11.95 (paper).

It is well known that there is no uniformity in theteaching of Arabic in the United States. The mosttraditional approach has been to teach Classical Arabic(CA) in all its Baroque complexities. The goal of suchteaching was to enable future Islamicists, historians,and others interested to read CA sources. Very littleattention was paid to any kind of spoken Arabic, althoughthere might have been token oral use of fully vocalizedCA, to reinforce the learning of CA. For many students,their entire time in studying Arabic passes without theirbeing exposed to a single word of a colloquial Arabicdialect

Over the years, however, the interests of studentshave changed. More and more, students are interested lessin reading strictly "Classical" texts than they are incoping with modern texts such as newspapers and modernhistorical writing. Many of these students hope to spendresearch time in the Middle East rather than just in theclassroom or library These students will want to beable to communicate with native speakers of Arabic.

It is not easy to meet the requirements of allstudents, who need to study both CA and a colloquial.If one teaches only CA, students are frustrated by theirinability to say anything "natural" in Arabic. Yet onecannot teach CA and a colloquial at the same time, itproduces confusion in students who find it difficult tokeep the two levels apart. And one should not teach acolloquial before CA. Although it is theoretically pos-sible to do so (after all, native speakers learn it first),it is common experience that students who begin theirstudy of Arabic with a colloquial often find it difficultto become proficient in CA, especially in its "finepoints" of vocalization.

A compromise between the teaching of CA and ofcolloquials is to teach what is sometimes called ModernStandard Arabic (MSA). However, even here there isdisagreement about the nature of MSA To some people,MSA is simply CA, using more current vocabulary and tosome degree syntax--hence, MSA is taught with all thecomplexities of CA, including the case vowels. It is alsopossible to teach MSA without the Classical endings. Inthis case, the vocabulary and syntax are basically Classical,


but the morphology is (to some degree) colloquial.

Modern Standard Arabic is sometimes referred to byArabs themselves as Middle Arabic. It is the Arabic usedin formal speech of all kinds—radio broadcasts, lectures,debates, university instruction. It is essentially CAminus case endings. Not entirely, though; even in suchsituations, colloquial vocabulary may appear. A recentstudy by Werner Diem^ shows that this kind of Arabicexhibits a wide range between CA and the colloquials,depending on many variables.

In their Foreword the authors explain that besidesits "formal" use, MSA is also said to be "the standardmedium of communication among educated Arabs from differentparts of the world, Arabs who are aware that they cannotall speak one particular dialect" (p. iii). Because ofthis supposed use of MSA in normal dialogue, the teachingof MSA places an emphasis upon acquiring oral proficiencyin the language.

The first purpose of the book under review is to aidthe student in acquiring the oral skills needed to manipu-late MSA. It is designed for students who have reached a"certain level of basic grammar and vocabulary," at leastcorresponding to Part I of Elementary Modern StandardArabic. The book is divided into twenty-four chapters.Each chapter is devoted to a certain social context, forexample, what to say when making new acquaintances, whenvisiting a friend's house. Most chapters consist of basicvocabulary; a basic text, usually in the form of a dialogue;additional vocabulary and text; new vocabulary; and a"sketch," which is in the nature of a continuing narrative,with the same characters reappearing. Each chapter isalso liberally provided with exercises of all kinds: trans-lation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic;word substitution; formation of plurals, imperfects; andso on.

Although the authors are Tunisian and Egyptian, theyclaim "the language used in this book is neither Egyptiannor Tunisian colloquial." (The Cataloging in PublicationData states that this book "was previously published under thetitle Lughatuna al-jamlla," but I have not seen a copy ofthe original.)The language used throughout the book is,in fact, perfectly good CA. This shows up in the vocabulary,where words are Classical (jiddan, al-can, faqafc, li-madha),or given Classical vocalizationfrajul, mutashakkir).Theforms in the verb tables are also vocalized in straightfor-ward Classical. The syntax throughout is Classical.

The Foreword states that this kind of Arabic is the"normal means of communication" among educated Arabs whomay speak different colloquials. The authors recognizethat it is not the normal day-to-day language of most Arabs,


and state that "Arabs do not go about their dailyactivities speaking Modern Standard Arabic to oneanother." However, very few of the dialogues or scenesin the book involve "educated Arabs who may speakdifferent dialects." Rather, the dialogues are betweenmembers of a family (parents and their children, husbandand wife) or between friends (schoolmates getting mar-ried) . And yet, these dialogues are couched in perfectlygood Classical Arabic (with or without case endings; thetexts are unvocalized). It is the fundamental problemof this book- Arabs simply do not speak to each otherin the language used in this book. For example, ahusband says to his wife, in order to get her to servecoffee at a dinner party: hal satuqaddimin lana qahwaam shay (As mentioned, the texts are unvocalized, butthis is the vocalization implied by the vocabularies.)Would an Arab man really speak in such elevated form tohis wife: Would he also say sawf la akun macak'

This leads to a larger question: Do Arabs, evenof different dialectal backgrounds, really use this kindof Arabic when speaking to each other' As discussedabove. Middle Arabic falls somewhere between Classicaland colloquial, there is no uniformity to it. Speakersuse a certain amount of morphological and lexical region-alisms when speaking it. Some of these colloquial formsmay be fairly widespread, others may be more local, butMiddle (or Modern Standard) Arabic does not consistsimply of CA minus the case endings.

If a student works diligently through the exercisesin this book, he will be able to say in MSA: "He saidto his wife angrily: "Every time I go to the barber, Iwait nearly an hour.' His wife said smiling: 'Whydon't you go to another barber''1" But is such knowledgereally useful to a student7 Would it not be better forthe student to study a straightforward colloquial instead'Or, even more simply, should a student learn to say hunafor "here" instead of hinS or hSn?

In his article "Myths about Arabic," CharlesFerguson discussed the view, common among educated Arabs,that in a relatively short time the diglossia existingin the Arab world will disappear. Instead, one languagewill be used throughout the Arab world for both speakingand writing. This new language will be not an existingcolloquial but instead a "streamlined" Classical, lackingsome of its subtleties. Ferguson's point is that evenwell-educated Arabs believe that this new situation willdevelop in a relatively short time. One cannot help butconclude that the work under review is a reflection ofthat view--the belief or hope that MSA will one day bethe normal language of daily communication. In my view,this is simply not going to happen, at least in theforeseeable future. Diglossia has existed in Arabic forover a thousand years. However, it was not much of a


problem in the past, because few people were literate,and few people were exposed to many dialects. Diqlossiahas become a problem in the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies because of the various economic and socialemphases placed on literacy. In my view, the situationof diglossia is going to continue for a long time. Aslong as colloquials are learned as first languages, thedichotomy will exist.

A second purpose of this book is for "reinforcement"in learning MSA (which is to say, CA). Many students findthat an oral component makes learning the language easier.For this purpose, the book is well suited. There is muchmore connected narrative than usually encountered inelementary books. There are also proverbs, maxims, andeven some Koranic snippets. In future editions, I wouldprefer to see some discussion about the background ofsome of the expressions. The book is designed to be usedwith a teacher, but even so it would be helpful for thestudent to have, for example, an explanation of the dif-ference between the "Small Feast" and the "Big Feast."

The basic dialogues are short, perhaps too short.The "Additional" texts and scenes are much longer; someof the latter are rather interesting, and could helpsustain a student's interest.

To sum up: I think that this book can serve twouseful purposes. It can help students to develop an "ear"for MSA. My experience has been that students do notactually hear enough MSA. And it can be useful for oralreinforcement when learning MSA or CA. I think that itis less successful in its goal of teaching MSA as a"standard medium of communication," because I do not be-lieve that MSA is a "standard medium of communication."I think it is more profitable for teachers of Arabic torecognize that diglossia exists and to cope with it. Inpractice, it may mean teaching two separate languages,with all the pain that requires. This is not the placeto further discuss the issue. However, it is an issuethat every institution teaching Arabic must consciouslyface, since more and more students are interested inusing Arabic in the modern-day world.

Von Grunebaum Center for John L. HayesNear Eastern StudiesUniversity of California,Los Angeles

Notes

1. Werner Diem, Hochsprache und Dialekt im Arabischen;Untersuchungcn zur heutigen Arabischen Zweisprachigkeit(Wiesbaden, 1974).


2. Charles A. Ferguson, "Myths about Arabic" OnLanguage and Languages (Georgetown), 12 (1959), 75-82,reprinted in Joshua Fishman, ed., Readings in the Soci-ology of Language (The Hague, 1968), pp. 375-381.

Edward G. Browne, The Press and Poetry of Modern Persia.Los Angeles: Kallmat Press, 1983; reprint of 1914edition. Pp. 357. $35.00.

E. G. Browne's The Press and Poetry of Modern Persiahas been reprinted at a time when a comparison betweencontemporary Iranian journalism and periodic literaturepublished during the 1906-1911 upheavals in Iran is un-avoidable. In Amin Banani's three-page preface (xli-xliii), which is the only thing that distinguishes thisreprint from the original, the comparison is explicit:"The vigor and variety of that nascent press (i.e., thepress described by Browne), with its remarkable promiseof rapid political maturity, stands in ironic contrastto the monotonous rhetoric and mindless cant of the massmedia in Iran today." Topical though such a comparisonmay be, it ought to be tempered with a few observations.First, not all the journals cataloged by Browne originatedduring that early twentieth-century period of promise.Jam-i Jamshld (item 119) , for example, was first publishedin Bombay in 1846. The comparison must be qualifiedfurther by noting that, during the first months of thepresent Iranian revolution, old, revived, and new journalsof every political stripe appeared in large numbers. Thetwo dozen or so titles that were censored under provisionsof the Islamic Republic's Press Law of August 1979 are atelling tip of the iceberg.

Banani also mentions that The Press and Poetry hasreappeared when Orientalism, of which Browne was agifted practitioner, suffers from a "certain malodor."Browne was charged with partisan scholarship in a Persianjournal some twenty-four years ago. In an article called"Edward Browne's Political Goal in Iran," Ibrahlm Safa"!wrote "None of the late professor's works are free fromthe stain of ulterior motive." Where Safa'i found bias,Banani has found Browne's "Byronic nature," which compelledhim to "champion the cause of the Persian ConstitutionalRevolution." On the other side of the coin, Browne hasbeen chided for his Persophilic enthusiams. FiruzKazemzadeh believes that in his writings on Baha'ism,Browne's "personal involvement with Persia clouded hisvision." In Press and Poetry Browne in fact does makethe kind of generalization that is more at home overcocktails at embassy gatherings than in a work of unbiasedscholarship: "Curiously enough it was the Ottoman Turks,a people far less original and talented than either thePersians or the Arabs, who, as far as the Near East is


concerned, introduced the hitherto unknown ideas of•The Fatherland'" (xxxvi). But, pace SafS'I, thisis the only sentence among the many thousands in Pressand Poetry which smells of Orientalism.

The work itself has endured the test of these andother revisionist times and is still cited as an im-portant source of information on late Qajar Iran.*In addition to being as complete a guide to thecontemporary Persian, internal and expatriate pressas was possible at the time. Press and Poetry is also akind of literary biography, a latter-day tizkirah. itcontains short notices and poetic specimens~of manyimportant revolutionary period poets. The goal of thesecond half of Press and Poetry was to dispel Europeanstereotypes about Iranian literary decadence. Browne'stranslations of the colloquialisms in the ephemeralpoetry of the time are uniformly accurate and, occasionally,ingenious in their capacity to convey poetic sense whilemaintaining rhyme and rhythm. One example is the strophe:

hafdan u hazhdah u nuzdah u blstay khuda kasl fikr-i ma nlst

which literally means "seventeen and eighteen and nineteenand twenty/ O God, no one gives us a thought at all."Browne (p. 177) has it:

One seven, one eight, one nine, two naughtNo one of us taketh heed or thought!

The parentage of Press and Poetry is interesting. Itis the offspring of H. L.Rabino's Surat-i Jar3yid-i Iran(Rasht, 1911) and Mirza Muhammad cAli Khan Tarbiyat'sVaraqI az Daftar-i Tarikh-1 Matbucat-i Irani va Farsi.Browne translated these two works and annotated them withinformation derived from specimens of Persian periodicalswhich were found in the British Museum or which were givento him by Rabino or which were already in his possession.The best review of the resulting catalog is the four-volumework by Muhammad Sadr Hashimi Tarlkh-i Jarayid va Majallat-iIran (Isfahan: Sadr Hashimi, 1327-1332/1948-1953). SadrHashimi kept the works of Tarbiyat and Browne close by and madeample use of both when he was writing his exhaustive survey.In many cases. Press and Poetry was the sole source ofinformation about entries in Tarikh-i Jarayid (e.g.,"Haqlqat" Browne p. 78; Sadr Hashimi 2:225).But apartfrom the hundreds of articles and books that have profitedfrom Browne's efforts, the best testament to the accuracyand durability of Press and Poetry is the fact that SadrHashimi, luxuriating in a wealth of source material un-available to Browne, found only two instances where Browneerred (Tarikh-i Jarayid 2:52 and 3:93).

Press and Poetry concludes with a valuable "Chronologyof the Persian Revolution" (310-336), which brings his


earlier work The Persian Revolution of 1905-1909(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910)5 to theend of 1911. What Browne says at the end of thechronology perhaps still applies: "however dark thehorizon and ominous the outlook, Persia . . . stillremains an independent and undivided country."

University of Chicago Library Paul Sprachman

Notes

1. See Ittilacat no. 15934 (21 Aug. 1979).

2. Armaghan 9:2 (urdlbihisht, 1339/1960), 60.

3. "The Muslim Clergy and the Peacock Throne," areview of Hamid Algar's Religion and State in Iran, 1785-1906 in World Order (Summer, 1971) , p. 49.——————————

4. Recently in Mansur Rawshanak's article on therole of women in the Constitutional Revolution in NImah-*iDlgar (Nimeye-digar) 1:1 (Spring, 1984), 30.

5. Also the subject of a 1966 reprint edition byFrank Cass & Co.

Georgetown University Library. George C. McGhee Library.A Catalogue of Books on Asia Minor and the Turkish Otto-man Empire.Edited by Joseph E.Jeffs, with an introductionby Heath W. Lowry. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UniversityLibrary, 1984. Pp. ix, 117; ill. $9.95 (paper).

In 1951, George C. McGhee went to Turkey to assumehis duties as American ambassador to that republic. Tofamiliarize himself with his new post. Ambassador McGheebegan to assemble a personal library on the land and peoplesof ancient and modern Anatolia. The resulting collection ofover 1,450 items now resides in its own special room atGeorgetown University's Intercultural Center and is describedin a handsomely printed catalogue edited by Joseph E. Jeffs.

Ambassador McGhee's library includes a smattering ofworks on Islam and the Turkic peoples in general, but asalready noted its main focus is on Anatolia. There are afair number of books on this region's pre-Ottoman civili-zations and antiquities, with the Ottoman Empire and modernTurkey receiving the greatest attention. Indeed, withinthe realm of Ottoman and Turkish studies, as Heath Lowryobserves in the catalogue's introduction, "[flew importanttitles in French, German or English published in the pastfour centuries are missing from the McGhee Collection."


This means that the collection includes a number of veryrare works, such as ChalkokondylSs's L'Histoire de ladecadence de la 1'Empire grec, et I'establissement deceluy des Turcs (1612).Especially noteworthy is theselection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuryEuropean publications, both popular and scholarly, onTurkey and the Turks. The works of some Turkish his-torians and literary authors appear in translation, butthe collection includes only a few books in Turkish andonly scattered issues of a few periodicals.

The catalogue describing this collection is dividedinto three parts. Part one is an author catalogue andgives a full bibliographical description of each work inthe collection. Part two is a title index, but omitsthose items entered under title in the author catalogue.Part three indexes the McGhee Library by Library ofCongress subject headings and also includes added entriesfor coauthors, editors, and the like. In general thecatalogue is well done; and users should have littledifficulty locating works by author, title, or subject.There are two main entries for Rumi in the author catalogue(one under Celaleddin, the other under Jalal al-Dln).The 1854 edition of Creasy's History of the Ottoman Turksis listed under Creasy (with the article omitted fromthe title), but the 1961 Khayats reprint of this work isentered only under title and is misfiled at that (itcomes between the heading for Philip Hitti and the titleentry for Hittite Art & the Antiquities of Anatolia).Fortunately")such errors are not typical of the catalogue.

In sum, George McGee has assembled an impressivecollection of books on Anatolia and the Turks, and heand Georgetown University have done the academic commun-ity a distinct service by making these books availableas a unit. The McGhee Library, in turn, is well describedby the catalogue under review here. Scholars will findthe book useful in several ways. It will naturally aidin locating a number of rare books. Within limits, itcan serve as a bibliography for all periods of Anatolia'shistory. The catalogue's use of Library of Congresssubject headings should also help direct users to theresources of their own academic libraries. Finally, thoseinterested in nineteenth- and early twentieth-centurypublications on Turkey will be especially interested inthis very welcome addition to the bibliographical literatureon that country.

University of California, James MaccaferriLos Angeles


Hanifi, M. Jamil. Annotated Bibliography of Afghanistan.4th ed., rev. New Haven:Human Relations Area FilePress, 1982. Pp. 545. $45.00.

This book is the latest revision of Donald N. Wilber'sAnnotated Bibliography of Afghanistan (3d ed. New Haven:HRAF Press, 1968), brought up to date through 1981. Hanifihas retained the general subject divisions of the previouseditions, modifying some subdivisions, but has somewhatchanged the style of bibliographic citation used, withoutdetriment to the reader. As before, materials in WesternEuropean and Slavic languages as well as in Dan and Pushtuare listed. An index of authors and titles cited is in-cluded.

This revised edition contains 3,500 entries, morethan twice as many as in the third edition, a fact thatemphasizes the growth of Western interest in Afghanistanduring the last fifteen years. Nearly three-quarters ofthe work is devoted to the social sciences: geography,history, social development, political and economicstructures; the humanities and arts make a token ap-pearance at the end. This is hardly surprising to anyonewho has kept abreast of the radical changes in modernsocial studies during the past two decades, and theresearch emphasis on quantifiable data and fieldwork. Thisimbalance is also notable in Keith McLachlan and WilliamWhittaker's A Bibliography of Afghanistan (Cambridge:Middle East & North African Studies Press, 1983) where,despite a slight reordering of subject classifications,the humanities shrink to occupy a mere 70 pages out ofmore than 600.

Hanifi has largely retained Wilber's short introductionsand annotations, and has added only annotations for thosenew materials which he examined personally. The annotations,both old and new, are short (often only one or two sen-tences) and descriptive, but rarely critical. Hanifiappears to have continued the use of Wilber's somewhatidiosyncratic transliteration.

Although McLachlan and Whittaker's bibliography ex-cludes Slavic and Middle Eastern language materials,includes items only through 1979, and contains no annotations,it nevertheless is an important complement to Hanifi. Itlists more than twice as many citations (albeit coveringsome scientific subjects excluded by Hanifi) and is somewhateasier to use as the subjects have been divided into moredefined categories. It is highly recommended that the twoworks be used together, as one bibliography.

The Ohio State Dona S. StraleyUniversity Library


Hussain, Asaf. Islamic Movements in Egypt, Pakistanand Iran. London: Mansell; New York: distributedin the United States and Canada by H. W. Wilson,C1983. Pp. 168. $27.00.

The revival of militant Islam in the 1970s haswitnessed an outpouring of publications documenting itsdevelopment and attempting to explain the phenomenon.This bibliography covers publications on the Islamicmovements in Egypt, Pakistan, and Iran. Hussain hasselected the movements in these countries because oftheir renown and impact across national borders (p. xm) .It is a selective bibliography, intended to lead thereader to sources that provide a "sound insight into theseIslamic movements (p. xm)."

The criteria for selection are that the work shouldadd to the general knowledge of the Islamic movement,illuminate an issue or problem of the movement, andinterpret the movement in an Islamic, Marxist or someother methodological basis (p. xm) . Most of the cita-tions about the movement are written by academics andspecialists in the field. Included are English transla-tions of tracts written by the leaders of the movementssuch as Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb in Egypt, MawlanaAbdul Acla Mawdudi in Pakistan, and Ayatollah RuhallahKhomeini and All Shariati in Iran.

The bibliography is divided into three parts with aseparate historical introduction to the movement for eachcountry: the Ikhwan and other recent Islamic groups inEgypt, the Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan, and the Islamicrevolution in Iran. The citations are numbered in sequenceand arranged alphabetically by author. Citations withoutan author are entered under the heading "Anonymous." Anauthor index is included. There are 438 books and arti-cles cited (Egypt 108, Pakistan 97, Iran 231), mostpublished within the last decade and all in the Englishlanguage. The annotations are evaluative and vary inlength from a few lines to an entire page.

The citations are accurate and complete with fewidiosyncracies (item 247 cited as the New York Review inthe New York Review of Books). Several citations areimproperly entered:item107 is entered under the trans-lator and annotator instead of the author; items 364-369,speeches and messages of Khomeini, are entered under theMinistry of Islamic Guidance. There are no authorreferences to these items in the index. Unpublishedtheses and dissertations are included as well as papersread at conferences which also may be unpublished (thecitations, for example 152, 161, 196, and 241, are notclear on this point) and therefore are not easilyaccessible.


These are minor shortcomings for a book of this size.Researchers seeking background material and studentsinterested in reading wisely about the movements willfind this concise volume indispensable.

Library, California State Joseph GardnerUniversity, Northridge

MEETINGS

On the green hillside of the University of Durhamcampus overlooking the magnificent medieval structure ofDurham Castle is St. Aldan's College where the conferenceon the Arab Middle East in British Librarianship tookplace in September of this year.

Papers were delivered in this meeting on topicsranging from the very specific ("Management of OrientalistCollections- Durham Policy and Practice and the ArabMiddle East" by Lesley Forbes, Durham) to the more general("Coverage and Distribution of Modern Arabic Materials inBritish Libraries. A Quantitative Approach and Analysis"by Paul Auchterlonie, Exeter).

Papers covered both academic and nonacademic infor-mation resources. The commercial sector was representedby Ernest Noble, Information Consultant, The Middle EastAssociation, London, who read a paper entitled "CommercialInformation Services on the Arab Middle East, withParticular Reference to the Work of the Middle EastAssociation."

The bibliographical section was represented byGeoffrey Roper, editor of Index Islamicus, UniversityLibrary, Cambridge. Jill Butterworth, Assistant Librarian,University Library, Cambridge, spoke on cataloging ofArabic materials.

One of the main concerns that dominated the conferenceand most of the papers was the lack of funding for uni-versities and academic institutions. This is due to thebudget cuts implemented by the present government.

The tone of the discussions about the present situ-ation of Middle East collections in British Libraries wasrather pessimistic. This lack of funding is to blame forthe slower development of computer utilization in libraryservices compared to the United States.


However, I find that we share many of the sameconcerns and problems with regard to the acquisitionand cataloging of materials from the Arab countries.

It was recommended at the conference that arrange-ments be made for a similar international conferencein another country in the near future.

I would like to express my thanks to the Universityof Chicago for making it possible for me to attend thisconference.

University of Basima Qattan BezirganChicago Library

The Archives and Libraries Committee of the AfricanStudies Association held several sessions during theAfrican Studies Association Meeting in Los Angeles thelast weekend of October 1984. The Cataloging Subcomit-tee in its meeting covered two main issues: how to protesttheir lack of representation on a key ALA committee oncataloging; and to report on LC's reaction to a proposalfor increased language codes to cover African languages.The idea of a union list of African language materialswas discussed but an alternative suggestion was proposedto promote software to allow searching by language. TheCommittee's business meeting included the endorsement ofa human rights bibliography, rejection of a groupresolution against U.S. pullout from UNESCO in favor ofindividual letters, the hope for combined panels withMELA (New Orleans, 1985) concerning common library scienceissues, award for excellence in bibliography to HansZell's A New Reader's Guide to African Literature (NewYork, 1983) . Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project(CAMP) met independently to discuss its objectivesincluding a National Endowment for the Humanities grantproposal to film African archives.


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Princeton University Press has published a work ofERIC ORMSBY, former president of MELA, entitled Theodicyin Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazali"'s "Bestof All Possible Worlds"(1984).MICHAEL ALBIN is theauthor of"The Library of Congress Overseas Offices &Other Developing Areas," in The Infrastructure of anInformation Society, edited by B.El-Hadidy and E.E.Home (New York, NVY. : Elsevier Science Publishers,1984), pp. 481-486. The Hoover Institution has issueda guide prepared by ED JAJKO, Hoover's Middle Eastcurator, which describes the collection's resources inthe Mideast Field. Copies of this new guide can beobtained by writing Ed Jajko, Middle East Curator, HooverInstitution, Stanford, CA 94305. MARTHA DUKAS hasproduced for the Arabic Hour, a Boston TV program, a20-minute videotape on discovering the Arab world in yourpublic library. The program has been aired in Bostonand through syndication in San Francisco and othercommunities. FAWZI KHOURY traveled during August-Septemberto Egypt and Sudan on a library acquisitions and develop-ment trip for the University of Washington Library.BASIMA BAZIRGAN and MARTHA DUKAS attended the Durham,England conference on library services and bibliographyin the Arab world which was held during September, 1984.

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