Recently added articles from Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ):
The siege of Nahr Al-Bared and the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.(Company overview)
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION THE LEBANESE ARMY'S SIEGE OF THE Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, home to over 31,000 Palestinian refugees, initiated a second experience of displacement and exile within the community. Perhaps as troublesome as the displacement and loss of economic livelihood wrought on ...
Social citizenship rights of Canadian Muslim youth: youth resiliencies and the claims for social inclusion.
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION: THE CONCEPT OF "SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP" is increasingly utilized to define governmental as well as grass roots activist organizations' social policy outcomes. This can in part be explained by the fact that in liberal Western democracies social citizenship rights are ...
Mahmoud Darwish: 1942-2008.(In memoriam)
Sep 22, 2008 ... <Pre> IDENTITY CARD Write down! I am an ArabAnd my identity card number is fifty thousandI have eight childrenAnd the ninth will come after a summerWill you be angry? Write down!I am an ArabEmployed with fellow workers at a quarryI ...
Framing the "threat to Islam": al-wala' wa al-bara' in Salafi discourse.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION IN RECENT YEARS, THE WORLD has witnessed several mass protests staged by Muslims against what they saw as insults to Islam. The best-known example of these is probably the wave of demonstrations against the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006. A common ...
Cultural hegemony, resistance and reconstruction of national identity among Palestinian students in Israel.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION IN THIS ESSAY, I FOCUS ON the experience of the Palestinians who fell under Israel's control in 1948 and their struggle to maintain and preserve their national identity despite systematic Israeli efforts to create a state of hegemony through the control of the ...
The Orient "made Oriental": a study of William Beckford's Vathek.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I do not believe that authors are mechanically determined by ideology, class, or economic history, but authors are ... very much in the history of their societies, shaping and shaped by that history and their social experience in different measure. Edward Said, Culture and ...
Hisham Sharabi. Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Hisham Sharabi. Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual. Translated by Issa J. Boullata. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2008.186 pages. Paper $15.00. THE 1967 WAR TRIGGERED a frantic Arab-American rush to organize and to challenge the mendacious Zionist ...
Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Gregory Starret. Editors. Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Gregory Starret. Editors. Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007. 265 pages. Hardcover $55.00. In November 2003, a conference initiated by Eleanor Abdella Doumato entitled, "Constructs of Inclusion ...
Mearsheimer, John J. & Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Mearsheimer, John J. & Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 484 pages. Hardcover $26.00. "The Israel Lobby" as a subject is important in the 2008, US elections where candidates compete for attracting the Israel lobby to ...
De Chatel, Francesca. Water Sheiks and Dam Builders: Stories of People and Water in the Middle East.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... De Chatel, Francesca. Water Sheiks and Dam Builders: Stories of People and Water in the Middle East. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2007, 207 pages. Hardcover $ 32.95. In Water Sheiks and Dam Builders: Stories of People and Water in the Middle East, Francesca de ...
Hovsepian, Nubar, Editor. The War on Lebanon: A Reader.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Hovsepian, Nubar, Editor. The War on Lebanon: A Reader. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2008. 422 pages. Paper $ 20.00. Nubar Hovsepian counters US-Israeli allegations about the nature of the 2006 war, as the title of his book makes clear. It is "The War on Lebanon" rather ...
Howell, Mark. What Did We Do to Deserve This? Palestinian Life Under Occupation in the West Bank.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Howell, Mark. What Did We Do to Deserve This? Palestinian Life Under Occupation in the West Bank. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishers, 2008. 240 pages. Hardcover $19.95. Based on photographs, interviews and personal testimonies of ordinary Palestinians in the West Bank, and those ...
Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2007, 208 pages. Hardcover $ 24.96. Joan Wallach Scott's book refutes the view that the 2004 ban on wearing "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliations in public schools in France was to ...
Books received 2007-2008.
Sep 22, 2008 ... ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Editor. Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-i Nut. Albany. NY: Suny Press, 2008. Paper $ 29.95. Ayoob, Mohammed. The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World. Ann ...
Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri 1938-2008.(In memoriam)
Jun 22, 2008 ... On 3 July 2008 Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri, a true twentieth century polymath, an astounding defender of intellect and history, and a methodologically innovative Arab scholar passed away. The death of the author of the most important Arabic encyclopedia in the twentieth century; The ...
The internationalization of the communal conflict in Darfur and its regional and domestic ramifications: 2001-2007.
Jun 22, 2008; ... THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES THE COMMUNAL conflict in the Darfur region of Western Sudan focusing mainly on the genesis of the conflict, its process and the different attempts made at its reconciliation. Furthermore, the essay discusses primarily the internationalization process of the conflict ...
The US-market-oriented qualifying industrial zones: economic realities and scope of benefits (1996-2006).
Jun 22, 2008; ... DURING THE 1980S AND 1990S EXTENSIVE projections were made about the potential benefits that would accrue to the Middle East from normalization between Israel and the Arab countries. In fact, in writings on the Middle East economy during these two decades, a regional economic development ...
A "middle power" in action: Canada and the partition of Palestine.
Jun 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION CANADA PLAYED A KEY ROLE in the drafting of the United Nation's Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947. Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ivan C. Rand, was a central figure in drafting the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) Majority Report which ...
The serpent's egg.(Jerusalem 1913: The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Conflict)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Amy Dockser Marcus. Jerusalem 1913: The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Penguin Books, USA 2007. Paper $15.00. 207 pages. And therefore think him as a serpent's egg--Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous--And kill him in the shell. Shakespeare ...
Suzanne Gauch. 2007. Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Posteolonialism, and Islam.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Suzanne Gauch. 2007. Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Posteolonialism, and Islam. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Paper $ 20.00. 224 Pages. Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam is a collection of five chapters that analyze the literary ...