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Shangri-La
- April 20, 2004
* The former home of tobacco heiress Doris Duke in
Honolulu, Hawaii is now a museum housing an impressive collection of Persian
Art. A website and virtual tour of the museum can be found online at
www.shangrilahawaii.com. Majid
Tehranian, a professor in the School of Communications of the University of
Hawaii at Manoa and Director of the Toda
Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, recently visited the museum. He
wrote the following review which he has kindly allowed MENAVista to post.
Trade Friction Is More Than
Trade Friction
- December 10, 2003
* A draft article by Michael Kraig, Program Officer
for Global Governance and US Foreign Policy at
The Stanley Foundation.
While not specifically focused on the Middle East, the piece attempts to place
the recent friction over the Pentagon's barring of non-coalition countries from
Iraq reconstruction contracts into a broader political and historical
perspective.
Iraq: The Three-State Solution
Is A No-State Solution
- November 25, 2003
* By Judith S. Yaphe, Senior Fellow for the Middle
East in the Institute for National
Strategic Studies, National Defense University,
Washington, DC. This piece is a response to a November 25, 2003 Op-Ed in
the New York Times by Leslie H. Gelb entitled
"The Three-State
Solution" which advocated a US policy of dividing Iraq in three.
Wolfowitz Q&A At
Georgetown University October 30,2003
- November 5, 2003
Iraq's Role In Oil Markets
- October 6, 2003
* Written by a MENAVista regular contributor,
originally published by the International
Institute of Strategic Studies
Palestine is Dead
- April 22, 2003
Iraqi Oil After Saddam - April 22, 2003
