Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 1999

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 1999

Development - at what price? A review of the Lebanese authorities' management of the environment.
January 1, 1999... Throughout the 1990s we have seen rebuilding activities in Lebanon. The physical remnants of the war, particularly in the greater Beirut area, have been removed and replaced. Much of the media reporting on Lebanon has centered around this...

Lebanon: the struggle of a small country in a regional context.
January 1, 1999... This observation concerned the Lebanon of the early nineteenth century, but it is relevant to an understanding of contemporary Lebanon. Two destructive civil wars have interrupted Lebanon's struggle to develop a national identity out of its...

Lebanon after Ta'if: another reform opportunity lost?(Ta'if Accord)
January 1, 1999... The national accord document for Lebanon issued in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia, on 24 October 1989 was composed with the active mediation of Saudi Arabia, discreet participation by the United States, and behind-the-scenes influence from Syria. Signed...

Lebanon's conundrum.(peace situation in Lebanon)
January 1, 1999... Lebanon's civil war came to an end in the autumn of 1990, when, with silent approval from Washington, Syrian forces assaulted the presidential palace in Ba'abda and brought the rebellion of General Michel Aoun to an end. Aoun had resisted...

Transformation of education: will it lead to integration?
January 1, 1999... This essay is intended to show that the Lebanese government's criticism of the Lebanese educational system that was in existence from 1968 to 1994 is not fully justified and cannot, therefore, serve as grounds for making the basic changes in it...

Reconstructing the economy of Lebanon.
January 1, 1999... The basic thesis of this essay is that Lebanon's current economic predicaments are rooted in the unmanaged mercurial successes experienced in the 1950s through the mid-1970s, in the traumatic consequences of the civil war and the massive...

Lebanon's second republic: secular talk, sectarian application.
January 1, 1999... During a trip to lebanon in December 1996, I observed a very interesting and intriguing phenomenon in one neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs. I was visiting with a friend who lives in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of al-Shiyya....