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WINTER 2009 • VOLUME 16: NUMBER 1

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Since its founding in 1994, the Middle East Quarterly has become America's most authoritative journal of Middle Eastern affairs. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists turn first to the Quarterly, for in-depth analysis of the rapidly-changing landscape of the world's most volatile region. The Quarterly publishes groundbreaking studies, exclusive interviews, insightful commentary, and hard-hitting reviews that tackle the entire range of contemporary concerns – from politics to economics to culture, across a region that stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan. The Quarterly, founded by Daniel Pipes and edited by Michael Rubin, appears in a print edition, and is available in full-text (except the current issue) on this website.

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Jeffrey Azarva, Is U.S. Detention Policy in Iraq Working?
Evidence shows a remarkable success at countering radical Islam

ASSESSING HEZBOLLAH

Zachary Abuza, Southeast Asia Adopts Hezbollah's Model
Influenced from Lebanon, Indonesian jihadists are down but not out

Eyal Zisser, Hezbollah's Defeat in the 2006 War
Why its morale has never been lower

Hannah Elka Meyers, Does Israel Need Think Tanks?
A key policy tool flounders despite the growing need

TURKEY'S ISLAMIST DANGER

Bassam Tibi, Islamists Approach the European Union
The AKP seeks to Islamize not only Turkey, but also Europe

Rachel Sharon-Krespin, Fethullah Gülen's Grand Ambition
A self-described "man of tolerance" is anything but

INTERVIEW

Gamal Mubarak: "We Need Audacious Leaders"
The vision of Egypt's presidential son and possible successor

REVIEWS

Robert Spencer, Muhammad and Aisha, a Love Story
A third-rate book Islamists don't want you to read

A.J. Caschetta, Deconstructing Edward Said
An academic legacy unravels

Brief Reviews

DISSIDENT WATCH

Gideon Spitzer, Tariq Biasi
A Syrian blogger discovers the limits of Internet freedom