Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 1998

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 1998

A new challenge: water scarcity in the Arab world.
January 1, 1998... PRECIOUS WATER: GROWING DEMAND AND INCREASING SCARCITY Water is crucial for humans' survival and for the development of their economies. It is also a crucial element in the protection of the environment. The availability of fresh water has...

"Real unions": Arab organized labor in British Palestine. (1946)
January 1, 1998... In Palestine, as in the rest of the world, the end of World War II brought hard times to workers; Palestinian Arabs, like workers elsewhere, reacted vigorously to their new situation. As the prosperity of wartime production vanished and veterans...

The American peace movement and the Middle East.
January 1, 1998... Over the past few decades, popular movements in the United States challenging the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, Central America and Southern Africa have been an important factor in confronting foreign.policies seen to be inconsistent with the...

Huda Sha'rawi's 'Mudhakkirati': the memoirs of the first lady of Arab modernity. (female Arab activist for women's rights and social change)
January 1, 1998... Huda Sha'rawi's name is a household word in the Arab World, a name that calls up the image of an activist for women's rights and social change. Born in 1879, Sha'rawi entered public life in the period leading to Egypt's nationalist Revolution of...

Politics Without Process: Administering Development in the Arab World.
January 1, 1998... Reviewed by Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg The Arab World is in bad shape. Burdened with self-serving political leaders, unresponsive public institutions, crippling debt, and malignant foreign intervention, the Arab World finds itself at the end of the...

The Persian Gulf at the Millenium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion.
January 1, 1998... Reviewed by Gawdat Bahgat This book is an important contribution to a growing body of literature on the future of the Gulf region. The contributors are from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. In their twelve chapters, the authors...

Emergent Regional Powers and International Relations in the Gulf: 1988-1991.
January 1, 1998... Reviewed by Khalil Dokhanchi The end of the Cold War and the resulting economic and military developments have "produced a new independence for some southern states," or what Murden calls "emerging regional powers" (p. xv). The author examines...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.
January 1, 1998... Reviewed by Zerougui Abdel Kader In a 1993 article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel Huntington, a professor of political science at Harvard University, predicted that future wars will be fought along civilizational rather than economic, political, or...

A rebuttal. (response to article by John Strawson, winter 1997 Arab Studies Quarterly)
January 1, 1998... In his article in the winter 1997 Arab Studies Quarterly, John Strawson purports to critique the second edition of my book Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics and ascribes to me various misguided positions regarding how human rights...