14 Feb 2006

Mideast Monitor e-journal
Mideast Monitor, Washington, DC, US
Self-description: "Mideast Monitor is a monthly nonprofit publication [est Feb 2006 - ed.] devoted to specialized analysis of political developments, issues, and personalities shaping the Middle East today. It is designed to fill a critical gap between media coverage of the Middle East and quarterly print journals - more in-depth than the former, less dated (because there is less lag time) than the latter. The Monitor does not offer policy recommendations, but special attention is given to policy relevant misconceptions about Middle East politics that often underlie misguided decisionmaking in government. It welcomes article submissions. The Monitor is funded by a small group of private donors committed to these objectives."
Site contents: * About Mideast Monitor; * Past Issues; * Search; * Mailing List; * Submission Guidelines; * Support; * Contact.
Contents of the inagural issue Vol. 1 No. 1 February 2006: SYRIA: The Lion in Winter: Bashar Assad's Self-Destruction - Gary C. Gambill; Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri - Tony Badran; Dossier: Abdul Halim Khaddam - Gary C. Gambill; LEBANON: Hezbollah's Dilemmas - Rodger Shanahan; Memorandum of Joint Understanding between Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement, 6 February 2006, translation by Mideast Monitor [the translated document is "a memorandum of understanding signed by Lebanon's most powerful Shiite and Christian political movements on February 6. Some points in the memorandum (e.g. anti-corruption reforms) merely re-state positions that Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement have held for many years, while others were hammered out over weeks of negotiations"]; IRAQ: Iraq's Divided Insurgents - Mahan Abedin.
[The new e-journal is edited by Gary C. Gambill, "a country analyst for Freedom House (http://www.freedomhouse.org/). Formerly editor of Middle East Intelligence Bulletin (http://www.meib.org/) from 1999 to 2004, Gambill publishes widely on Lebanese and Syrian politics, terrorism, and democratization in the Middle East." - ed.]
URL http://www.mideastmonitor.org/
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