Recently added articles from Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ):
In memoriam: Al-Tayeb Salih: 1929-2009.(In memoriam)
Jun 22, 2009 ... AL-TAYEB SALIH WAS BORN on 12 July 1929 in Karmokol, near al-Debba and Merowe in Northern Sudan and died at dawn in London on 18 February 2009. Although he spent most of his adult life outside the Sudan, he remains one of its greatest symbols of traditional Northern Sudanese culture ....
Cinematic representations of the changing gender relations in today's Cairo.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... THIS ESSAY INVESTIGATES THE CHANGING gender relations and roles as represented in recent Egyptian films set in Cairo, in order to study the relationship between the individual and the restructuring of urban space in a rapidly transforming city. My main interest lies in what the new themes ...
A taxonomy of Jihad.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... JIHAD DERIVES FROM THE ARABIC root j h d, signifying intense struggle or effort. Besides denoting an armed struggle, it has the connotations of a moral struggle within one's own self. It thus carries the hermeneutical meaning of a moral endeavour directed towards one's own improvement or ...
Communicable diseases in the Gulf: the case of tuberculosis.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, COMMUNICABLE diseases are assuming increasing importance both in terms of morbidity (disease) and mortality (deaths). Communicable diseases are the principal causes of deaths in many countries around the world. Communicable diseases ...
Gabriel Piterberg, The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Gabriel Piterberg, The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. London: Verso, 2008, 287 pages. Paper $29.95. MANY BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN on Zionism but few, if any, can match the breadth, scope, intellectual and theoretical richness of Piterberg's The ...