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SPRING 2008 60 PaGeS [email protected] www.ISIm.Nl 21 ERS, 2005 ERS, T PHOTO BY ANWAR MIRZA / © REU © / MIRZA ANWAR BY PHOTO Foreign labourers in Dubai, 2004 Migrants, Minorities & the Mainstream 8 24 34 36 Madawi Al-Rasheed Anita Fabos Merle Ricklefs Maren Milligan Salafism in Saudi Arabia Sudanese in the Diaspora Reform and Polarization in Java Al-Quds in Nigeria ISIM-RV-21-OM-DEF-2.indd 1 04-04-2008 12:49:14 Advertisements New titles from Frontline Pakistan Defeat The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Why they Lost Iraq Benazir Bhutto Jonathan Steele Zahid Hussain As the dreadful reality of the Coalition’s defeat in Iraq After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan begins to sink in, one question dominates stands on the edge of an abyss, in to which it may Washington and London: why? In this controversial plunge the world. 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