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  • Editor's Note
  • Michael Collins Dunn

As we enter a new year after a year of dramatic change in our region, with more in prospect, this issue offers a range of studies of, I hope, enduring utility in an era of change.

Two articles address issues related to the role of Israeli Arabs inside the Green Line, and the Islamic Movement inside Israel, with particular emphasis on Jerusalem. Dov Waxman warns of "A Dangerous Divide: The Deterioration of Jewish-Palestinian Relations in Israel," while Craig Larkin and Michael Dumper examine "In Defense of Al-Aqsa: The Islamic Movement Inside Israel and the Battle for Jerusalem."

The withdrawal of the last US troops from Iraq in December is a useful background for Sean Duggan's "Redefining the Relationship: Reclaiming American Public Diplomacy from the US Military in Iraq."

Krista Wiegand looks at the only one of the Gulf's many territorial disputes to ever go before the International Court of Justice in "Bahrain, Qatar, and the Hawar Islands: Resolution of a Gulf Territorial Dispute."

Hakan Köni, a young Turkish scholar, examines the role of Saudi funding of Islamic institutions in Turkey beginning after the oil price revolution of the 1970s, as a sort of historical overture to the more recent growth of Islamic identity in once secularist Turkey.

Our Book Review Article is by Raymond William Baker and deals with nine recent books on Egypt, whose ongoing and seemingly unfinished revolution continues to fascinate.

With that, let me wish our readers a Happy New Year, and remind you that I also blog between issues at the MEI Editor's blog, http://mideasti.blogspot.com. [End Page 9]

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