Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 2003

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 2003

Editors' notes.
January 1, 2003... THE GENESIS OF THIS VOLUME originated from the presentations, panels, and discussions delivered at the Fifth International Conference of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, held at Eastern Mediterranean University,...

Terrorism: from Samson to Atta.(Part II: myths: framing the problem)
January 1, 2003... THERE IS AN UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE between Samson's attack on the temple of the Philistines as described in the Bible (Judges 16: 26-31) and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001. On a busy holiday when...

11 September and the millennialist discourse: an order of words?(Part II: myths: framing the problem)
January 1, 2003... I have not sent these prophets, saith the Lord, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, and yet they prophesied. Jeremiah (23:21) THIS PROPHETIC VERSE PROVIDES a proper starting point for the thesis of this article, namely, that a...

Screening Islam: terrorism, American jihad and the new Islamists.(Part II: myths: framing the problem)
January 1, 2003... ONLY THE HEADLINES AND DETAILS varied in the coverage of 11 September and the subsequent suicide bombings in Israel. The underlying story in the mainstream Western media remained the same. Arab-Muslim terrorists were precipitating a...

11 September and the widening North-South gap: root causes of terrorism in the global order.(Part II: myths: framing the problem)
January 1, 2003... One feature of the globalized society is that disaster can happen at the global level, so we are now in this process where either we grasp the moral and political implications of this increasingly shared fate we have with other people or very...

The "clash" thesis: war and ethnic boundaries in Europe.(Part II: myths: framing the problem)
January 1, 2003... THE THEORY OF GLOBAL CULTURAL conflict began as an attempt to find new external Others for an American society bereft of its old enemies. Collapse of the Stalinist states removed at a stroke the focal concern of U.S. foreign policy for over...

Clash of civilizations: prophecy or contradiction in terms?(Part II: myths: framing the problem)
January 1, 2003... Acts done from passion seem very far from being acts of deliberate choice. Aristotle (1) PROLOGUE CONSIDER SCHILLER'S ACCOUNT OF the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631. While he dwelled on the "brutal appetites" of the...

Racism and the North American media following 11 September: the Canadian setting.(Part II. Realities: policy and practice)
January 1, 2003... IN THE LIVE COVERAGE OF EVENTS in New York and Washington on the morning of 11 September 2001 Canadian media molded the immensely powerful imagery of the tragedy into a concise discourse for Canadian media consumers. Immediately following the...

Anti-terrorism and rights in Canada: policy discourse on the 'delicate balance'.(Part II. Realities: policy and practice)
January 1, 2003... A DELICATE BALANCE was the title of the November 1983 Special Senate Committee (Pitfield) Report on Security Intelligence in Canada. According to committee chair, Michael Pitfield and colleagues: the need to balance collective...

11 September and the clash of civilizations: the role of the Japanese media and public discourse.(Part II. Realities: policy and practice)
January 1, 2003... THE ATTACKS IN NEW YORK AND Washington on 11 September came as a tremendous shock to Japan. The majority of the population felt sympathy with the victims and understood to some extent the U.S. anger, which led to the emergence of a new...

The framing of 11 September in the Turkish media: moder(n)ating Turkey's oriental identity.(Part II. Realities: policy and practice)
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION IN WHAT FOLLOWS I FIRST DISCUSS the orientalist worlding of the world where the world is conceived as divided into ontologically distinct and hierarchically ordered camps--the foundation of the "clash of civilizations" thesis....

The underlying realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after 11 September.(Part II. Realities: policy and practice)
January 1, 2003... AFTER DISCUSSING THE OPPRESSION of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and the developing Palestinian intifada from 28 September 2002, until 11 September 2001, Camille Mansour, professor of international relations at the Universities of...