Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (75 page)

Mustafa, Hala

Nablus

Naguib, Mohammed

nahda

Nakba

Nasrallah, Hadi

Nasrallah, Hassan

on bin Laden

on democracy

on Iraq war

Sunnis and

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

Nasser City, Egypt

Nateq-Nouri, Ali Akbar

National Alliance (Palestinian)

National Council for Human Rights (Egypt)

National Democratic Party (Egypt)

National Salvation Front (Syria)

Nayef, Yasser

Nebuchadnezzar

negarrasoh

Nehushtan, Ido

Netanyahu, Benjamin

New Woman, The
(Amin)

9/11

effect on Islamists

Hezbollah on

Muslim Brotherhood on

1967 war

1973 war

1982 war

Nokrashi, Mahmoud

Nour, Ayman

Nouri, Abdollah

nuclear program, Iran’s

Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, The
(Allawi)

Ohrdruf

Olmert, Ehud

Oman

Omayyad dynasty

On the Way of Resurrection
(Aflaq)

OPEC

Open Society Institute

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Faithful Promise

Operation Iraqi Freedom;
See also
Iraq war/U.S. intervention in Iraq

Operation Summer Rains

Organization for the Care of the Displaced

Oslo Accords

Othmani, Saadeddine

Ottaway, Marina

Ottoman Empire

Oudeh, Mohammed

Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Shah

Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research

Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute

Palestine Liberation Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Palestinian Authority

Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation

Palestinian Economic Policy Research Institute

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Palestinian National Council

Palestinian News Agency

Palestinians.
See also
Arab-Israeli conflict

Arafat and

Christian

diaspora of

education and

Egypt and

election of 2006

elections

Hezbollah and

intifadas

Islam and

number of

pluralism of

political leadership among

poverty of

Saudi Arabia and

security forces of

sense of national identity

student-union elections

transitions

as unique among Arabs

United Nations and

United States and

participatory despotism

Party of God.
See
Hezbollah

Party of Justice and Development (Morocco)

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Paul, Saint

People’s Assembly (Egypt)

Peres, Shimon

petitions

petroleum, democracy and

PLO Covenant

political change/transitions

beginning of

budding culture of

defining reform in

identity’s role in

pace of

patterns of

turmoil during

unexpected messiness of

Western pace of

youth and

political forces, categories of

Political Harem: The Prophet and the Women

The
(Mernissi)

political Islam

Polo, Marco

polygamy

Popular Campaign for Change.
See
Kefaya

population

of Egypt

of Iran

of Middle East

Palestinian

poverty

Powell, Colin

President’s Diary
(Bani-Sadr)

press

Egyptian

Iranian

Kurdish

Syrian

prisoners/prisoner exchanges

detainees held without trial

Egyptian political

of Hamas members

Hezbollah and

Palestinian demands on

Syrian political

women

protests.
See
demonstrations

Putin, Vladimir

pyjamahedeen

Qaddafi, Moammar

Qajar dynasty

Qaradawi, Mohammed al

Qaradawi, Yousef al

Qassem Brigade

Qatar

Qom, Iran

Qoreitem Palace

Quaker Friends School

Quds Force

Qutb, Mohammed

Qutb, Sayyid

Rabin, Yitzhak

Radio Farda

Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi

Rajoub, Jibril

Rajoub, Nayef

Ramallah

Rantisi, Abdel Aziz

Raytheon Corporation

Reagan, Ronald

Rebbah, Aziz

referendums

Egyptian

Iraqi

reform

defining

Egyptian efforts at

of Islam

Islamist

of religion

Reformation, Christian

Reformist Union

Regev, Eldad

religion

democracy and

modernism versus

monotheistic

reform and interpretation of

religious minorities;
See also specific minorities

Republican Manifesto
(Ganji)

Restless Nature of the World, The
(Soroush)

Revolution of the Hungry

revolutions

Rice, Condoleezza

Rushdie, Salman

Russia

Sadat, Anwar

Sadjadpour, Karim

Sadr, Musa al

Said, Nader

St. George Hotel (Lebanon)

Saladin

Salafi ideologues

Salam

Salam, Nawaf

Salameh, Ghassan

Saleh, Ali Abdullah

Saleh, Yassin Haj

Salem, Paul

Salih, Barham

Satanic Verses, The
(Rushdie)

Saudia Arabia

government’s hold on power

Iran and

Iran-Iraq war and

Lebanon and

Palestinian intervention by

television in

2006 war and

Scheherazade

Sebbar, Mohamed

Secrets Exposed
(Khomeini)

Seif, Riad

Semati, Hadi

Serat Institute (Iran)

Shaaban, Bouthaina

Shaarawi, Hoda

Shahbender, Ghada

Shakeri, Ali

Shalit, Gilad

Sham, Jund al

Sharia.
See
Islamic law

Sharon, Ariel

Shawkat, Asef

Shayfeencom.
See
We’re Watching You Shebaa Farms

Sheikh, Abdul al-

Shiites

diaspora

history of

Iranian

Islamic tax on

Lebanese

militant.
See
Hezbollah

political power and ascendance of

proportion of all Muslims

suicide bombers

Sunnis and, split between.
See
Sunni-Shiite divide

Syrian

tradition of resistance

Shikaki, Fathi

Shikaki, Khalil

Shrine of the Two Imams, bombing of

Siniora, Fuad

Soroush, Abdolkarim

South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

South Lebanese Army

Soviet Union;
See also
Russia

Star Academy

State Department, U.S.

human rights reports

list of terrorist groups

report on Egypt’s elections of 2000

report on Egypt’s presidential election of 2005

Stethem, Robert Dean

Street Is Ours, The

Suez Canal crisis (1956)

suicide bombers

Sukkar, Nabil

Sulaimaniyah

Sunnis

Iranian

Iraqi

Lebanese

Syrian

Sunni-Shiite divide

Superstar

Sutherland, Tom

Sword of Islamic Righteousness

Syria

Alawite minority in

Christians in

clothing in