Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 1996

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 1996

The 'fundamentalist' agenda for human rights: the Sudan and Algeria.
January 1, 1996... This essay contends that expressions such as "Islamic fundamentalism," "Islamic revivalism," "Islamic absolutism," "political Islam," and "Islamic reawakening," taken independently, do not provide a sufficient description of the phenomenon. The...

Citizenship legislation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
January 1, 1996... Editor's Note: This article is the second part of an ongoing research project titled "Creating the Basis for Democracy in the Middle East: Conceptions of Citizenship in the Levant". The first portion of the research appeared in Arab Studies...

Winner of the 1995 Ziad Asali award for most outstanding student research.(Membership of Foreigners: Algerians in France.)
January 1, 1996... MEMBERSHIP OF FOREIGNERS: ALGERIANS IN FRANCE HISTORY In 1830, France, led by Charles X, defeated the last remaining representatives of the Ottoman Empire and conquered Algeria.(1) The French government subsequently colonized the country and...

Stress and coping: the experience of students at the American University of Beirut during the Lebanese civil war.
January 1, 1996... Editor's Note: This study is the first of two, one by Dr. Oweini and the second by Dr. Judith Harik, dealing with the American University of Beirut and its students. Dr. Harik's work will appear in the Spring 1996 edition of the Arab Studies...

Beyond the Basilica: Christians and Muslims in Nazareth.
January 1, 1996... Reviewed by Andrej Kreutz The book is a much needed and long expected socio-geographical study of the communities and quarters of an Israeli-Palestinian, Christian-Muslim Arab town, Nazareth. However, it is also an integrated study which...

Anxious for Armageddon.
January 1, 1996... Reviewed by Jamal Khader In writing a book, or even an article, about the Middle East, the name, origin or the religious denomination of the author is almost a conviction. The usual temptation is to judge the book according to its writer...

The Clash with Distant Cultures. Values, Interest, and Force in American Foreign Policy.
January 1, 1996... Reviewed by Carlos A. Parodi Richard Payne's book is a bold effort, first, to demonstrate the double standard in U.S. foreign policy and, second, to explain its causes. Payne relies on three "cases" - the Gulf war, the Arab-Israeli...

Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim Societies.
January 1, 1996... Reviewed by Grace Stewart One evening years ago, sitting on the floor in front of a coffee table surrounded by three Palestinian males - Christian, Jewish and Muslim - all trying to explain to me what was going in Palestine, I wondered if the...

Portraits of Palestinian Women.
January 1, 1996... Reviewed by Lina Beydoun Portraits of Palestinian Women reflects on the conflicts and tensions within Palestinian society, mainly due to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Contrary to popular belief in the West, it is neither...

Allah Transcendent: Studies in the Structure and Semiotics of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology.
January 1, 1996... Reviewed by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad What do Sufism, Ismaelism and the falasafas have in common? Despite their differences, all depart from the Qur'an's uncompromising depiction of God as the willful Creator and Sustainer of all things by...