Great Arab Revolt Research Articles

Behind the Scenes of France's Lead on Libya

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath.

The Arab Revolution is Beyond America's Control

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath.

Prepare to Compete with the Muslim Brotherhood

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath.

The Tunisian Revolt: Where Have All the Islamists Gone?

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath.

Fire and Water: Tradition and Modernity in the Archaeology of Steam Locomotion in a Desert War

The construction of the Hijāz Railway from Damascus to Medina between 1900 and 1908 transformed the physical and cultural landscapes of a traditional desert routeway. The contesting of the routeway and its landscape during the Great Arab Revolt of 1916–18 necessitated heavy investment in the defence of the railway and its supply of wood and water. Adopting the interdisciplinary perspective of modern conflict archaeology, this paper explores interaction between traditional life-ways and cultures, and the effects that the industrialization and militarization of the railway had on natural resources.

How to Jump‐Start the Post‐Revolutionary Era in Egypt

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath.

America's Internet Freedom Agenda

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath.

Reading Gandhi in Cairo

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath.

Fire on the desert: conflict archaeology and the Great Arab Revolt in Jordan, 1916–18

Archaeologists specialising in twentieth-century conflict here turn their attention from the trenches of Europe to the desert landscape of the Arabian theatre. The thrust and parry between the Ottoman Army and Lawrence's Arabian forces are reflected in defence-works and the outgoing and incoming bullets found there. The Ottoman generals changed their defences from long lines to redoubts, implying that the less visible guerrillas were having a palpable effect on strategy. Here, archaeology amplifies and enhances the story told in T.E. Lawrence'sSeven Pillars of Wisdom.

Myth in the desert, or not the Great Arab Revolt

(1997). Myth in the desert, or not the Great Arab Revolt. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 267-312.

Soviet Motives in the Partition of Palestine, 1947-48

Russian involvement in the Middle East follows a national tradition that has survived all the problems of internal struggles, ideology, religious differences, and innumerable failures interrupted by occasional dazzling success which mark the course of Russian history. After the revolution in 1917, however, territorial annexation ceased to be a prime motivating factor of Russian policy, and emphasis shifted to ideological conversion as an instrument for the extension of political influence.' At the end of World War II, though, after exactly three decades of ambivalence and mild interest in the lower Middle East, interrupted only briefly by her transient concern with the 1929 Palestinian riots, a smaller uprising in 1933, and the great Arab revolt of 1936-1939, Soviet Russia found herself without a single ally in the potentially explosive area. In 1946 and early 1947, Moscow supported, albeit half-heartedly, Arab independence movements and their demands for the withdrawal of Western troops from the area. In May 1947, the Soviet Union then astonished the diplomatic world by reversing her three decade support of the Arab world and placing herself on record as a supporter of Zionist aspirations for the establishment and consolidation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Equally astonishing was her ideological rationalization of this move in support of the Zionist movement, hitherto a major focal point of Soviet distrust as an ideology