CENTRE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN
AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
University of Bergen

Articles and pamphlets
REGION
- Islam general, Middle East interregional
- Maghreb
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Libya / Sahara
- West Africa, Africa general
- Egypt
- Sudan
- Horn of Africa
- East & South Africa
- Yemen
- The Gulf
- Israel/ Palestine
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Syria
- Iraq
- Kurdistan
- Turkey
- Balkans
- Caucasus
- Central Asia
- Iran
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- India, South Asia
- Indonesia, South-East Asia
- Middle Easternerns in the West, Norway
- Research aids etc.

Presented by by region.

Israel/Palestine
  • Nils Anfinset, ‘Aspects of excavation, cooperation and management; The joint Palestinian-Norwegian excavation at Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho’, in L. Nigro & H. Taha (eds.), Tell es-Sultan / Jericho in the context of the Jordan Valley. Site Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development, La Sapienza Expedition to Palestine & Jordan, ROSAPAT 02, Rome 2006, 61-82.
  • Nils Anfinset, ‘Bosetninger på Vestbredden i fortid og nåtid’ [Settlements in the West Bank, past and present], Babylon, Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 3, 2, 2005, 106-115.
  • Nils Anfinset, ‘En arkeologisk utgravning i Jeriko på Vestbredden’ [An archaeological excavation in Jericho, West Bank], RISS, 2, 2004, 11-19.
  • Nils Anfinset, ‘Metallurgy and pastoral nomads in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant’, in Combining the Past and the Present: Archaeological perspectives on society, Oxford: BAR International Series 1210, 2004, 61-73.
  • Nils Anfinset, ‘Secondary products, pastoral nomads and the introduction of metal: The 5th and 4th millenia BC in the Southern Levant and Nort-East Africa’, Bergen: Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen 2005. 401 pp.
  • Nils Anfinset, ‘Tell es- Sultan in the context of the Jordan Valley: site management, conservation and sustainable development’, Report to the UNESCO on the International training workshop, Bergen: University of Bergen 2005. 101 pp.
  • Nils Anfinset (et al.), ‘Preliminary report on the first excavation of the Palestinian - Norwegian Excavation at Tell el-Mafjar, 2002, Jericho, Orient Express. Notes et Nouvelles d'Archèologie Orientale, 2, 2004, 40-44.
  • Kjersti G. Berg and Janne B. Bøe, ‘Fra Yeshiva til det israelske militæret. Det ultraortodokse samfunnet i Israel i endring’ [From yeshiva to the Israeli military. Changes in the Ultra-orthodox society in Israel], Babylon, Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 1, 2004, 44-54.
  • Kjersti G. Berg, ‘Bistand til Hamas? [Foreign aid to Hamas?]’, Bergens Tidende, 27.04.2006
  • Kjersti G. Berg, ‘Ingen palestinsk stat’ [No Palestinian state], Bergens Tidende, 30.09.2004
  • Kjersti G. Berg, ‘Vatn og Palestinakonflikten’ [Water and the Palestine question], Babylon, Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 2, 2, 2004, 42-54.
  • Janne B. Bøe, ‘Er religiøs kunnskap en trussel mot det tradisjonelle patriarkiet?’ [Does religious knowledge threaten the traditional patriarchy], Babylon, Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 1, 1, 2004, 74-86.
  • Janne B. Bøe, ‘Hijab- mellom religion og politikk’ [Hijab – between religion and politics], Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 1, 2005, 3-17.
  • Tomas Hägg, ‘The life of Mani in the context of Graeco-Roman spiritual biography’, in For Particular Reasons: Studies in Honour of Jerker Blomqvist, Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2003, 149-163
  • Are Knudsen, ‘Crescent and Sword: The Hamas Enigma’, Third World Quarterly, 26, 8, 2005.
  • Are Knudsen and B. Ezbidi, ’The rise of Hamas: Political options and implication’, in J. Hilal (ed.), Vanishing Point: The Demise of the Two State Solution to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Zed Books (forthcoming).
  • Bård Kårtveit, ‘Palestinsk migrasjon mellom Vestbredden og USA’ [Palestinian migration between the West Bank and the US], Babylon, tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 2, 2003, 198-117.
  • Lars Gunnar Lundblad, ‘Zakat, den tredje søyla i islam’ [Zakat, the third pillar of Islam], Babylon, tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 1, 2004, 116-125.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, ‘Education, culture and civilisation: Anglican missionary women in Palestine’, in The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Studies in Religion, History and Politics, Cardiff: The University of Wales Press 2003, 171-200.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, ‘Mission and education as liberating strategies: The case of Mabel Warburton’, in Gender, Religion and Social Change in the Middle East and Mediterranean, Oslo: Unipub forlag 2004.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, ‘Signe Ekblad and the Swedish school in Jerusalem, 1922-1948’, Svensk Missionstidskrift, 2, 2006 (forthcoming).
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, ‘To give the boys energy, manliness, and self-command in temper: the Anglican male ideal and St. George's College in Jerusalem, ca. 1890-1940’, in Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History, Oxford: Berg Publishers 2005.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, ‘Two duties so far apart: Den nye Kvinnen og overgangskvinner under den britiske mandatperioden i Palestina’ [The new woman and transitional women during the British mandate in Palestine], in Erobring og overskridelse: De nye kvinnene inntar verden, Oslo: Unipub 2003, 201-214.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, ‘Women in Christian mission: Protestant encounters from the 19th and 20th century’, in World Christianity: Politics, Theology, Dialogues,London: Melisende 2003.
  • Nefissa Naguib, ‘Life upside down. Women and Silent Crises in the Middle East’, Alam-E-Niswan, Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies, 12, 1, 2005, 23-37.
  • Nefissa Naguib, ‘Orphans of the diaspora: Armenian survivors in Jerusalem’ Current Anthropology (forthcoming).
  • Nefissa Naguib, ‘Stones and Stories: Engaging with complex emergencies’, in Gender, Religion and change in the Middle East, Oxford: Berg Publishers 2005. 175-191.
  • Nils Anfinset, 'The Joint Palestinian - Norwegian Excavation at Tell el-Mafjar', Jericho. <http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/jericho/index.html, 2003>
  • Nils Anfinset, 'UNESCO partisk?' [Does UNESCO take sides?], Museumsnytt, lii, 1, 2003, 6-8.
  • Kjersti G. Berg, '"Vi skulle bygge et nytt Jerusalem". Intervju med Haakon Lie om Arbeiderpartiet sitt forhold til Israel og Palestina' ['We were to build a new Jerusalem'. Interview with Haakon Lie on the Labour Party's relations with Israel and Palestine], Replikk, 10, 2000.
  • Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland, 'Norge - Israels beste venn?' [Norway: Israel's best friend?], Historisk Tidsskrift, lxxvi, 3, 1997, 390-401.
  • Dag Jørund Lønning, 'Dealing with Good and Evil. Introducing morality as an anthropological concern'. CMI, Working Paper 13, 1996.
  • Dag Jørund Lønning, 'Created by the Enemy: Enemy Images as Nation Builders in Israel', in Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds.), Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East, Aarhus 1997, 141-64.
  • Dag Jørund Lønning, 'Israeli Ways of Conceptualising the Enemy and Implications for Israeli - Palestinian Grass-roots dialogue', in Sabour & Vikør, Ethnic Encounter and Culture Change, 36-48.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, '"And the gem of all future hope is education and girls": Anglikansk misjon og kvinnelig utdanning i Palestina 1888-1948' [: Anglican mission and female education in Palestine], Klækken: Publikasjon fra Nordiske Kvinnedager 1996.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, 'Civilisation, Culture and Education: British Women missionaries in the Holy Land 1880-1940', in Anthony O'Mahoney (ed.), The Christian Communities of Modern Jerusalem: Studies in Religion, History and Politics, Wales 2000.
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug, 'Palestina-krigen 1948 sett fra to sider' [The Palestine war of 1948 seen from two angles], Bergens Tidende, 26.2.02, 21.
  • Knut S. Vikør, 'Palestina-konflikten' [The Palestine conflict]. Internasjonalt studiehefte, NMU, Oslo 2003, 37-42.

    >> See also Books: Berg, Fredsbygging; Lønning, Bridge; After Oslo;
    - Doctoral dissertations: Kanaaneh, N. Naguib, Okkenhaug,
    - and Master's theses: Abu Mustafa, Berg, J. Bøe, Dørnes, Fimreite, Gaarde, Kårtveit, Jensen, Lønning, Lundblad, Ivarsen, Selland, Skaar, Smith, Solheim, Wang, Nyløkken, Ludvigsen, Vatnaland, Åmland, Dahl, Klungland

Jordan Lebanon
  • Knut S. Vikør, 'Eit pragmatisk parti' (A pragmatic party), Klassekampen, 21.8.2006
  • Nils Anfinset, 'A Passion for Cultural Difference: Ethnicity and Archaeology in the southern Levant', Norwegian Archaeological Review, xxxvi, 1, 2003.
  • Are Knudsen, ‘Fra krig til fred: 1990-2005: Libanon etter Taif-avtalen’ [From war to peace: 1990-2005: Lebanon after the Taif-agreement], Babylon, tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 3, 1, 2005.
  • Are Knudsen, ‘Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 18, 2, 2005.
  • Are Knudsen, ‘Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005’, Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute, CMI Working Paper WP 12, 2005.
  • Are Knudsen, ‘The law, loss and the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon’, Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (forthcoming).
  • Kristian Boysen and Liv Tønnesson, ‘Libanon – Syrias akilleshæl’ [Lebanon, the Achilles’ heel of Syria], Bergens Tidende, 15.3.2005.#

    >> See also Master's theses: Dia, Innvik, Visser, Aanestad,Gjerstad

Syria

  • Liv Ingeborg Lied, ‘Another look at the Land of Damascus: The spaces of the Damascus document in the light of Edward W. Soja's thirdspace approach’, in Jonathan G. Campbell, William J. Lyons and Lloyd K. Pietersen, New Directions in Qumran Studies, London: Continuum 2005.
  • Leif Manger, Camillia Fawsi El-Solh, Khaled Ehsan and Warka Barmada (eds), ‘Country evaluation: Syria. Assessment of development results’, New York: United Nations Development Program/EO 2006.
  • Liv Tønnesson, ‘Mot maktskifte i Syria?’ [Towards a shift of power in Syria?], Bergens Tidende, 29.10.2005.

  • >> See Master's theses: Myrvold, Visser, Bjørge Pedersen
Iraq Kurdistan
  • Tor Aase, ‘What “home” means to people who have left it’, in The Cultural Heritage of the Kurds, Bergen: BRIC Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen 2005, 93-105.
  • Haci Akman, 'Et folk og en legende' [A People and a Legend].
  • Haci Akman, 'Kurdisk identitet [Kurdish identity].
  • Haci Akman, 'Landflyktighet' [Exile].

    >> See also Master's theses: Grønner, Dirdal, Hynninen


 

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