Contrasts and solutions in the Middle East / edited by Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yürükel.l.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National or religious identification seen in a local and global perspective / Peder Mortensen -- Universal human rights, particular cultural rights and peaceful co-existence : models for conflicts and their solution in the Middle East / Ole Høiris -- The new map of the Middle East / Fail Bulut -- Rushdie, fundamentalism and politics / Lars Erslev Andersen -- The mosque and fear of fundamentalism / Anders Jerichow -- History as mythos : on the question of religious language and historiography in Middle Eastern politics / Jan Hjärpe -- The Muslim woman : a battlefield / Connie Carøe Christiansen and Lene Kofoed Rasmussen -- The significance of oil in the Middle East and North Africa / Meliha Benli Altunisik -- To get more out of less : managing the water resources for sustained agricultural production / Martin Hvidt -- The challenge and predicament of human rights violations in the Mediterranean context / Ihsan D. Dagi -- Human rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Torben Retbøll -- Created by the enemy : enemy images as nation builders in Israel / Dag Jørund Lønning -- Religion : legitimizing the national dream / Jørden Bæk Simonsen -- Two movements of national liberation : in conflict or peace making? / Gert Petersen -- The Middle East between agony and progress : building a new Palestine / Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt and Jacques Hersh -- The role in developing democratic trends in the West Bank and Gaza Strip / Manuel S. Hassassian -- The Peace Process in the Middle East : explanations and future prospects / Ulf Bjereld -- Israel and the Peace Process / Naomi Chazan -- Iranian fundamentalism : a threat to the world / Maryam Rajavi -- The significance of religion : Islam and modernity / Andreas Laursen -- The Alawites' rise to power in Syria / Mette Fenger -- Nationalism and geo-political circumstances : the Kurdish problem as an example / Sami Abdul Rahman -- The politics of genocide : from Iraqi counter-insurgency to ethnic cleansing of Kurdish areas / Khaled Salih and Kirsten E. Schulze -- An historical account of identity formation in Turkey : the impact of nomadism / Selahattin Erhan -- The Assyrian community in Turkey / Joseph Yacoub -- The construction of the Turkish Republic and citizenship / Mümtaz Soysal -- Turkey and the Middle East / Osman Faruk Logoglu -- Republican citizenship facing the challenge of identity / Nuri Bilgin -- An imaginative approach to the problem of Turkey's security in the 21st century / Erhan Yarar -- The reality of Turkey / Sefa Martin Yürükel -- Political Islam : an anomaly of liberal democracy? / Elisabeth Özdalga -- Turkish media after the 1980s / L. Dogan Tiliç -- Turkey in a state of fear / Erik Siesby -- Water disputes and ethnic conflicts in the Middle East : the case of the Kurds / Omar Sheikhmous -- Alevis in Turkey and Europe / Mehmet Ali Ölmez -- The reconstitution of history and continuous history / Ilham Ataseven -- The Alevis and politics in Turkey / Helga Rittersberger-Tiliç -- The Kurdish Question : its history and present situation / Kemal Burkay -- The Kurdish demographic revolution and its socio-political implications / Mehrdad R. Izady -- Thoughts on the state and Kurdish identity in Turkey / Baskin Oran Faruk Logoglu.Logoglu.