Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 1994

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 1994

From national bourgeois development to Infitah: Egypt 1952-1992.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION THIS ESSAY WILL ARGUE THAT EGYPT has been developing along capitalist lines throughout its republican years. The Nasser regime, which overthrew the monarchy and declared Egypt a republic, was anti-colonial and gradually developed...

The Japanese experience in technology transfer and how it may apply to Saudi Arabia.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS of the Japanese has been one of the primary reasons behind its unprecedented modernization and becoming one of the world's leading industrialized powers in only four decades....

Universal versus particular identity: reflections on a visit to Palestine.
January 1, 1994... THE PASSING OF TIME enables one to absorb the various meanings of important events. I choose to write now about my first visit to Palestine, which actually took place in the first two weeks of July 1993. In retrospect, it seems appropriate that...

Palestinian women: their future legal rights.
January 1, 1994... PART I. INTRODUCTION PALESTINIANS ARE CURRENTLY ENGAGED IN DISCUSSING issues with the Israeli government related to their control of a future Palestinian entity. Additionally, President Arafat has recently appointed a high legal commission,...

Violence, Terrorism, and Justice.
January 1, 1994... In an era that has the struggle between governments and insurgents fought as much in the media as on the field, the propaganda value of affixing a label like "terrorist" to one's opponent is significant. Conditioning readers and viewers to...

Modernization in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire and Its Afro-Asian Successors.
January 1, 1994... This is a collaborative work involving nine different authors most of whom are either on the faculty of or graduates of Princeton and who are scholars of distinguished accomplishments in their own rights. It was written under the auspices of the...

Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt.
January 1, 1994... With all the ink that has been spilled trying to gauge the nature and reach of what are variously called "Islamist," "fundamentalist," or "revivalist" movements in contemporary Arab societies, there has been little serious attention -- outside...

Power Over Rationality: The Bush Administration and the Gulf Crisis.
January 1, 1994... The argument advanced in this slim, unfocused and sometimes redundant text suggests that very powerful states can occasionally afford not to be rational. Hybel contends that the emphasis of realists on the international structure is somewhat...

The Fire This Time: The U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf.
January 1, 1994... This book is an angry although measured polemical outcry over the U.S. "great victory" in the Gulf War of 1991. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney-General and long-time international peace activist, asserts that, in actuality, the Gulf War was...

Scuds or Butter?: The Political Economy of Arms Control in the Middle East.
January 1, 1994... In Scuds or Butter?: The Political Economy of Arms Control in the Middle East, Yahya M. Sadowski examines arms control in a very sensitive part of the world, namely the Middle East. First, Sadowski analyzes U.S. policy toward arms control and...

Imagining the Middle East.
January 1, 1994... As long as acknowledgement of inherent stereotypical views of the Middle East continues to elude both Western scholars and policy makers, our perceptions of the area and its peoples will hinder improved relations between the West and the Orient....