Recently added articles from Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ):
Curricular activism and academic freedom: representations of Arabs and Muslims in print and internet media.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Salaita, Steven ... IN THIS ARTICLE, I WILL ARGUE that movements to restrict academic freedom--a term I will clarify momentarily--are pernicious independently of their political affiliations, but most concretely identified and usefully contested when we investigate their strategic character, both tacit and ...
The portrayal of the East vs. the West in Lady Mary Montagu's Letters and Emily Ruete's Memoirs.
Jan 01, 2008; Rawi, Ahmed K. Al- ... INTRODUCTION AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), a great deal of controversy emerged that basically dealt with the West's elitist outlook and misrepresentation of the East. Very few studies concentrated on the other trend that embodied positive ideas. ...
The nature of the uncanny in Season of Migration to the North.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Halool, Musa Al- ... A CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1966) and its metatextual milieu offers a unique insight into the politics and semantics of vengeful sexuality in a postcolonial context. First, the writing of the novel was begun in 1960, that is, four years after ...
The international dimensions of authoritarian regime stability: Jordan in the post-Cold War era.
Jan 01, 2008; Yom, Sean L. ... INTRODUCTION EXPLAINING THE RESILIENCE OF authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa has become an urgent question for comparative political scholars. (1) Few Arab political regimes pass democracy's most basic electoral litmus test--inclusive contestation and public ...
Hizbullah: an Islamic Jihadi movement.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Alagha, Joseph ... Norton, Augustus Richard. Hezbollah: A Short History. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 200 pages. Hardcover $20.95. Harik, Judith Palmer. Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2004, 2006. 256 pages. Paper $20.95. Sobelman, ...
Hale, William. Turkey, the US and Iraq.(Oil and Democracy in Iraq)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Jerry, Janice J. ... Hale, William. Turkey, the US and Iraq. London, UK: SAQI and Middle East Institute, SOAS, 2007. 175 pages. Paper $21.95. Springborg, Robert. Editor. Oil and Democracy in Iraq. London, UK: SAQI and Middle East Institute, SOAS, 2007. 160 pages. Paper $29.95. THESE TWO ...
Ippolito, Christophe Editor. Translated from the French by Samuel Hazo and Paul B. Kelley. Nadia Tueni: Lebanon, Poems of Love and War/Liban, poemes d' amour et de guerre, A Bilingual Anthology.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Accad, Evelyne ... Ippolito, Christophe Editor. Translated from the French by Samuel Hazo and Paul B. Kelley. Nadia Tueni: Lebanon, Poems of Love and War/Liban, poemes d' amour et de guerre, A Bilingual Anthology. New York: Syracuse University Press and Beirut: Dar An-Nahar Press, 2006. 122 pages. Paper ...
Weiss, Thomas G. Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Halmo, David B. ... Weiss, Thomas G. Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action. Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007. 176 pages. Paper $19.95. The work is a concise, straightforward, and even-handed analysis of the shifts and contradictions in the theory and practice of military ...
Traboulsi, Fawwaz. A History of Modern Lebanon.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Traboulsi, Fawwaz. A History of Modern Lebanon. Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007. 288 pages. Paper $29.95. Fawwaz Traboulsi writes an impressive account of the history of modern Lebanon over five centuries. It is the only comprehensive history since over forty years. History ...
Noe, Nicholas. Editor. Voices of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.(BOOKS IN BRIEF )(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Noe, Nicholas. Editor. Voices of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. London, UK: Verso, 2007. Paper $19.95. The book offers two decades of statements 32 altogether by the Party's Secretary-General. Nasrallah's interview following the war of July 2006 is also ...
Hafez, Kai. Translated by Alex Skinner. The Myth of Media Globalization.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Hafez, Kai. Translated by Alex Skinner. The Myth of Media Globalization. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. 232 pages. Hardcover $59.95 Paper $ 24.95. Kai Hafez makes the point that no global public media sphere has been yet established. Hafez explains how it is a lot simpler to ...