...Christina Lizzi Christina Lizzi is a human-rights and environmental activist and former editorial assistant of Mediterranean Quarterly . Aslam Maleeha : Gender-Based Explosions: The Nexus between Muslim Masculinities, Jihadist Islamism and Terrorism . New York : United...

... correct. Moreover, little attention is given to the side against which the Crusades were launched in the Middle Ages, and not much has been written on the Muslim responses to the Crusades. The recent past, however, has produced some interesting research on the medieval Muslim perspective and understanding...

...Barbara Franz Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Barbara Franz is assistant professor of political science at Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Europe’s Muslim Youth: An Inquiry into the Politics of Discrimination, Relative...

..., Augusta State University, Georgia. Bishku: The South Caucasus Republics and the Muslim Middle East  27 The South Caucasus Republics and the Muslim Middle East: Political and Economic Imperatives...

...Robert J. Pranger Vincent Barletta: Death in Babylon: Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 253 pages. ISBN 978-0-226-03736-33. $45.00. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant with extensive experience in national...

...Justine Williams Justine Williams is a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli, Editors: Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries...

... Muslims Are Joining the Islamic State Barbara Franz “I ignite the bomb in the center of the crowd,” announces the German jihad- ist and former rapper Denis Cuspert in his song “Abu al Amlani” (I’m wait- ing for death). Cuspert, alias Deso Dogg, now calls himself Abu Talha al-­ Alman...

...Marijan Gubic L. P. Harvey: Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 448 pages. ISBN 0-226-31963-6. $40. Reviewed by Marijan Gubic. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Marijan Gubic is the deputy chief of mission at the embassy of the Republic...

...Dominique Maillard Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Dominique Maillard is vice dean in charge of international relations and currently teaches at the University of Paris XII-Val de Marne. The Muslims in France and the French Model of Integration...

... the historical roots of the current confessional-political conflict. Second, it provides an overview of the Muslim Brotherhood – led 1979 – 82 rebellion and its defeat in Hama. Third, it discusses the role that the Muslim Brotherhood revolt plays in the current conflict. Fourth, it analyzes jihadist infighting...

...Anna Borshchevskaya A superficial look at Russia’s current problems with terrorism and Muslim extremism may lead to the conclusion that the United States and Russia have similar views on this issue, which would therefore make them obvious partners in addressing the problems. Russian president...

.... Pioneering academic work on refugees and assimilation limns the essential choices policy makers have: (1) throw open the gates to Europe and hope new Muslims citizens will eventually assimilate, (2) exclude Muslim immigrants and try to subordinate Islamic beliefs to European norms for those already in Europe...

...Sait Çetinoğlu In this essay policies against non-Muslim minorities implemented during World War II by the Turkish government are analyzed: specifically, the mobilization of minority young men aged eighteen to forty-five years into work battalions from May 1941 to September 1942, as a repetition...

... that the influx of refugee flows can increase the likelihood of terrorist attacks. Furthermore, 65 percent of Greeks have a negative review of Muslims. Because Greece has not been the victim of Muslim terrorist attacks and historically has had strong ties with the Arab world, these perceptions represent a puzzle...

... an overwhelming victory in the first parliamentary elections since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. The Muslim Brotherhood won the biggest share with the hard-line Salafist al Nour Party of Light. The youth groups that staged the demonstrations that toppled Mubarak took only seven seats. What are the implications...

...Martin N. Murphy This essay describes the piracy that took place in the Mediterranean from the time of ancient Greece to Barbary. It explains the corso , the sea war between nonstate but state-endorsed Christian and Muslim parties, with reference to the Knights of Malta and, more extensively...

... because it refuses to place itself in conflict with Western civilization and instead positions Turkey as a bridge between Western and Muslim civilizations. To this extent, Strategic Depth may be described as a conservative interpretation of Turkish Eurasianism. Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu is assistant...

... was the scene of Arab settlement and later Ottoman rule, and today one-fifth of the population is Muslim Turkish, while the rest is predominantly Greek Orthodox. Malta was under direct Arab rule and its language is Semitic in origin, although its population today is almost exclusively Roman Catholic. Both...

... and not a Western analysis of that perspective—is a sine qua non to understanding what happened and how to begin to formulate policies and actions to deal with the new reality. The Islamic State has become the champion of disaffected Sunni Muslim youth building on those perceptions, and the West underestimates...

..., and by extension the question of Europe.s Muslim minority, will be possible only through a new, multicivilizational vision of Europe that confronts the minimalist discourse. Such a vision will enable Europe to emerge as a global power as opposed to an introverted regional player. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc...