Nbr. 394, November 2008

Index

• Changing times in a changing world.
• Good health and good living.
• Lyric woman: from the Omani fragrance house of Amouage.
• You can have it all.
• Comment.
• The Al Qaeda enigma: as the US election looms, American leaders boast that the jihadists have been defeated, but, intelligence analysts warn, they are far from beaten and remain 'the most serious terrorist threat to the United States'.
• Running out of time: fifteen years after Oslo, hopes of a peace deal predicated on a two-state formula are evaporating and the Palestinians are scrambling for other options.
• Is Israel ready to give peace a chance?
• Looking at Livni.
• Promises, promises: made, kept and broken.
• Waiting for the right to return: what the Palestinians want and need is a homeland, but for the present they are scattered across the face of the globe with others, similarly deprived, who have been forced to flee in search of temporary security from oppression and death.
• A tangled web.
• Signs and wonders.
• Attack on Iran not ruled out.
• Iraq: a success or just a political ball game?
• Islamic banking: text and tables by economic analyst Moin Siddiqi.
• Oil's troubled waters: The Middle East examines some of the trouble spots threatening the global oil supply.
• The profits of piracy soar: organised piracy has become big business in and around the Gulf of Aden, with international banks and insurance companies bearing the brunt of the illegal and unscrupulous practice.
• Gulf set to weather financial storm.
• A return to the marshes? The wetlands of Iraq and the Marsh Arabs that lived there were a source of fascination and inspiration for centuries until, in an act of barbarism, former president Saddam Hussein ordered that they should be drained. Now, an exciting new plan aims to reclaim areas of the devastated wetlands and attempt to return them to their former glory.
• Luxor: the largest open-air museum in the world.
• A village called Jimzu.
• Arab Awakening & Islamic Revival.
• Iranian Photography Now.
• Tell Me How This Ends.
• Backstabbing for Beginners.
• Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries.
• Lebanese Cinema.
• Eid around the world.