Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 1997

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 1997

Democratization in Egypt in the 1990s: stagnant, or merely stalled?
January 1, 1997... Democratization is the process of moving from nondemocratic or authoritarian forms of government to democratic forms of government (Sorenson, 1991, 14). It has been argued by Huntington (1993) that the world is currently in a "third wave of...

Theoretical issues in the Arab human rights movement.
January 1, 1997... The gravity of the human rights situation in the Arab World calls for the presence of an Arab human rights movement with a clearly defined mandate and purpose. While other parts of the world, including many countries in the South, have seen the...

A western question to the Middle East: 'Is there a human rights discourse in Islam?'
January 1, 1997... Arab Muslim rulers . . . transformed an unsophisticated tribal polity into one of the most sophisticated and durable kinds of rule, that of oriental despotism, the methods and traditions of which have survived in the Muslim world to the present...

The external relations of the Arab human rights movement.
January 1, 1997... In the 1970s the first arab non-governmental organizations (ANGOHRs), active in the field of the defense and promotion of human rights, were created. In 1983, the establishment of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) was a watershed and...

Civil society in the Arab world: historical traces, contemporary vestiges.
January 1, 1997... Is civil society possible in the Arab world? The sociologist, Max Weber, thought not. Writing in the late Nineteenth Century, he maintained that the norms of Arab culture were incompatible with the rational demands of capitalism and democracy....

'L'algerie en 1995 - La Guerre, l'histoire, la politique.'
January 1, 1997... Reviewed by Yahia H. Zoubir The period 1994-1995 in Algeria was marked by an extraordinary level of violence that led to the deaths of thousands of Algerians, mostly civilians. Far from being a journalistic account of the events that occurred...

Islamic Identity and the Struggle for Justice.
January 1, 1997... Reviewed by Robert Ashmore The ten essays published under this title are revised versions of papers presented in a symposium held at Cornell University in 1987. Although one-fifth of humanity is Muslim, the faith of these billion or more...