Includes bibliographical references and index.

Middle Eastern Indigenous Ethnic Minorities -- Middle Eastern Minorities: Between Integration and Conflict--An Overview / Moshe Ma'oz -- National Self-Determination in the Middle East and North Africa / Benyamin Neuberger -- The Impact of Religion and Regime on Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East / Jonathan Fox, Iris Margulies -- Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Sudan since Independence / Gabriel Warburg -- The Elite Minority: Educated Sudanese and their Role in the State / Ahmed Al-Shahi -- The Christians in Israel: Aspects of Integration and the Search for Identity in a Minority within a Minority / Daphne Tsimhoni -- Contested Identities: Berbers, "Berberism," and the State in North Africa / Bruce Maddy-Weitzman -- Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Iraq / Moshe Ma'oz -- Middle Eastern Diasporas -- Middle Eastern Diasporas--An Overview / Gabriel Sheffer -- The Muslim Diaspora in the West / Rivka Yadlin -- Lebanon: State, Diaspora and the Question of Political Stability / Eyal Zisser -- Chechen Identity, Culture, and Citizenship in Jordan / Mohanna Haddad, Wasfi Kailani -- Territorial versus Personal Autonomy / Ruth Lapidoth.