Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles

Recent articles from Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

The siege of Nahr Al-Bared and the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.(Company overview)
January 1, 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 the...

Social citizenship rights of Canadian Muslim youth: youth resiliencies and the claims for social inclusion.
January 1, 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 emblematic...

Mahmoud Darwish: 1942-2008.(In memoriam)
September 22, 2008... IDENTITY CARD Write down! I am an Arab And my identity card number is fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth will come after a summer Will you be angry? Write down! I am an Arab Employed with fellow workers at a quarry I have...

Framing the "threat to Islam": al-wala' wa al-bara' in Salafi discourse.(Essay)
September 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 feeling...

Cultural hegemony, resistance and reconstruction of national identity among Palestinian students in Israel.(Essay)
September 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 economy,...