Michael.H.Prosser

This review of selected books about the Middle East follows the November 27, 2007 Israeli-Palestine summitat Annapolis, Maryland under the leadership of President George W. Bush.(Appearing in the Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (in Asia), Vol. 1. No. 2. spring, 2008.)The Middle East: Selected Book ReviewsMichael H. Prosser*Rashida Abdulla. The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond. NY: Peter Lang, 2007.Jimmy Carter. Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006Emirate Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Arab Media in the Information Age. Abu Dhabi, United Arab[......]

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Thanksgiving, 2007 This year, I am celebrating, but not celebrating, my seventh Thanksgiving in China. When I first came to China, I tended to have Thanksgiving celebrations with student friends. At the Beijing Language and Culture University, 2001-2005, I had four Thanksgivings. The first occurred when I had come from Yangzhou University fora set of lectures at the Beijing Language University, with an additional lecture at Peking University and my first of 12 appearances on CCTV 9 International’s “Dialogue” program. Thus in 2001, instead of being at Yangzhou University for Thanksgiving, I w[......]

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