Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 2002

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 2002

From the editor.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... After three years as Editor, Ghada H. Talhami has turned over the editorship of Arab Studies Quarterly to pursue her ongoing distinguished academic career. Her years of leadership, first as Co-Editor with William W. Haddad, and then as Editor...

Discursive pluralism and Islamic modernism in Egypt.
January 1, 2002... THE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BEFORE and after 1900 constituted one of the most ideologically innovative episodes in the intellectual history of modern Egypt. A prime example of this ideological creativity is the rise of a new movement among the...

Huntington and his critics: the West and Islam.(Samuel H. Huntington)
January 1, 2002... THE THIRD MILLENNIUM A.D. HAS STARTED with the specter of a clash among civilizations haunting humanity. Already, during the 1990s, as bewildered intellectuals, used to looking through the lens of the Cold War, were trying to make sense of the...

The geopolitics of post-Soviet Russia and the Middle East.
January 1, 2002... THE NEW RUSSIAN STATE CREATED after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 is neither a simple continuation of its legal Soviet predecessor nor of the former Russian Empire, which ended during World War I in 1917. As the Russian...

Continuity in economic policy in postware Lebanon: the record of the Hariri and Hoss governments examined, 1992-2000.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION FOR SIX YEARS (DECEMBER 1992-NOVEMBER 1998), Rafiq Hariri and his economic team were in charge of managing the Lebanese economy. While some of Hariri's economic polices had popular support, most were controversial ones that...

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock, editors. Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 629 pages. Paper $17.46. "Americans have trouble thinking of Arabs as a standard 'ethnic group,'" (p. 2)...

The Adam of Two Edens: Poems. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Mabmoud Darwish. The Adam of Two Edens: Poems. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press and Jusoor, 2000. 206 pages. Paper$16.95. This essential collection could not have appeared at a more crucial time. As the Aqsa intifada rages on...