Working Papers
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The United States & the Middle East: Diplomatic and Economic Relations in Perspective
YCIAS Vol. III
The United States and the Specter of Islam: The Early Nineteenth Century
Robert J. AllisonU.S.-Iranian Relations, 1911-195
Mansour BonakdarianFriction from the Sidelines: Diplomacy, Religion and Culture in American-Egyptian Relations, 1919-1939
Erez ManelaU.S. Advisory Aid to Turkey: The Hines-Kemmerer Mission, 1933-1934
Marcie J. PattonThe State Department's 'Anti-Zionist Stand': A Reevaluation
Lawrence DavidsonThe United States and Great Britain Navigate the Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis
Mary Ann HeissThe Riddle of Islam: American Images and Interpretations, 1945-1960
Matthew F. JacobsThe Eagle and The Sphinx: American and Arab Nationalism, 1945-1970
Douglas LittleContesting Arabism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Arab Middle East, 1956-1959
Salim YaqubBlack Gold, White Crude: Race and the Making of the World Oil Frontier
Robert Vitalis
The United States & the Middle East: Cultural Encounters
YCIAS Vol. V
The Search for the Ancient and Holy
Yale and the Study of Near Eastern Languages in America, 1770-1930
Benjamin R. FosterThe Archaeologist's Spade and the Apologist's Stacked Deck: The Near East Through Conservative Christian Bibliolatry
Daniel Martin VariscoAmerican Palestine: Mark Twain and the Touristic Comodification of the Holy Land
Hilton Obenzinger
Religious Paradigms
"Drying up the Euphrates:" Muslims, Millennialism and Early American Missionary Experience
Timothy MarrAmerican, the Second 'AD: Prophecies about the Downfall of the United States
David Cook"Benevolent Supremacy:" Biblical Epic Films, Suez, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Power
Melani McAlister
Text and Context: Incorporating the Other in Literature
An Early Arab Encounter with America: The Story of Mikhail Nu ayama
Rasheed El-EnanyA Grave for New York and New York 80: Formulating an Arab Identity through the Lens of New York
Michelle HartmanObserving the Birth of a Nation: The Oriental Spy/Observer Genre and Nation Making in Early American Literature
Lotfi Ben Rejeb
Exporting Religion and Education
Ecclesiastical Warefare: Patriarch, Presbyterian, and Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Asyut
Paul SedraOttoman Official Attitudes Towards American Missionaries
Cagri Erhan
Representations
Representations of the Middle East at American World Fairs 1876-1904
Eric DavisWhen Palestine Played the Palace: Vaudeville Interprets the Balfour Declaration
Charles A. Kennedy
Apocalypse and Violence
YCIAS Vol. VI
The Evidence from the Reception History of the Book of Revelation
Christopher RowlandEschatology, Violence, and Suicide: An Early Rabbinic Theme and its Influence in the Middle Ages
Adiel SchremerThe End is Near: Minor and Major Signs of the Hour in Islamic Texts and Contexts
Barbara Freyer StowasserThe Unholy Uses of the Apocalyptic Imagination: Twentieth Century Patterns
R. Scott ApplebySymmetric Dualisms: Bush and bin Laden on October 7, 2001
Bruce Lincoln