Middle East Magazine

June 2008

Features:

• The us-led alliance in iraq that George W. Bush once called, with sweeping hyperbole, “the coalition of the willing”, is falling apart at a rapid rate.
• While the currencies of the GCC countries have depreciated substantially alongside the dollar, the depreciation is even worse in the case of the euro.
• although most of Tunisia’s Jewish population has relocated to other countries, its synagogues are thriving.
• regional: who calls the shots?
• libya: new hurdles hamper rehabilitation
• syria-israel: us dictates the terms of peace
• regional: crum bling coalitions
• regional: drugs trade takes its toll
• israe l: the ugly face of neo-nazis
• West Bank: land grab
• Morocco: caftan, with passion
• 3 gCC: currencies and the euro
• 4 saudi arabia: Jeddah’s building boom
• Oil & Gas rePOrT: how high can prices go?
• 5 Tunisia: synagogues lourish though the Jews have gone
• saudi arabia: ilmmakers ind their voice
• Orientalists in london
• 6 The brush embroiderer