Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 2004

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 2004

The limits of reconciliation: Rihani's view statezionism.
January 1, 2004... THE BALFOUR DECLARATION: DISTORTED LANGUAGE AND DEVASTATED LIVES IT MAY HAVE TAKEN PROPHETIC inspiration to write in 1921, as Ameen Rihani did in The Descent of Bolshevism, that the Bolshevik revolution was an instance of egalitarian...

Interviews with mothers of martyrs of the AQSA Intifada.
January 1, 2004... THE AQSA INTIFADA ERUPTED IN September 2000. This uprising was the second of its kind in the recent history of Palestine following the first one in 1987. What characterizes both of these uprisings is the fact that both started out as an act of...

Lebanese identities: between cities, nations and trans-nations.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION IN THIS ARTICLE, I DISCUSS the (re)constituting the 'Lebanese diaspora.' Our journeys and our presentations produce evidence of the existence of the Lebanese and their descendants in different parts of the world. Yet in what...

Saudi Arabia and the war on terrorism.
January 1, 2004... IN 1945 THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN a U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a Saudi king, Abdel Aziz al-Saud, the founder of modern day Saudi Arabia, was held aboard an American warship in the Suez Canal. The two leaders laid down the...

Emmanuel Todd, Apres l'Empire: Essai sur las decomposition du systeme americain.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Emmanuel Todd, Apres l'Empire: Essai sur las decomposition du systeme americain (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2002), 233 pages. 18.50ff. The book by Emmanuel Todd, the English translation of which will soon be published, cannot be easily...

Donald E. Wagner. Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Donald E. Wagner. Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000. London, U.K.: Melisende, 2003. 307 pages. $21.95. In the midst of the current Western obsession with Muslims and Islam, a book...

Ghada Hashem Talhami. Palestinian Refugees: Pawns to Political Actors.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Ghada Hashem Talhami. Palestinian Refugees." Pawns to Political Actors. New York: Nova, 2003. 227 pages, Hardcover, $59.00. The Palestinian struggle cannot be comprehended without some understanding of the issue of Palestinian refugees....

Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: from Triumph to Despair.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2003. Hardcover $29.95. Adeed Dawisha analyzes Arab nationalism from its "early stirrings" and inception until...

Khatib, Hisham. Palestine and Egypt under the Ottomans: Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Khatib, Hisham. Palestine and Egypt under the Ottomans: Paintings, Books', Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts. London, U. K.: I. B. Tauris, 2003._Hardcover $85.00. Khatib provides a work of high quality, that artists, historians,...

Marin-Guzman, Roberto and Zidane Zeraoui. Arab Immigration in Mexico in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Assimilation and Arab Heritage.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Marin-Guzman, Roberto and Zidane Zeraoui. Arab Immigration in Mexico in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Assimilation and Arab Heritage. Austin, Mexico: Augustine Press/Instituto Tecnologico De Monterrey, 2003. Paper, no price indicated....

Shaban, Fuad. For Zion's Sake: The Judeo-Christian Tradition in American Culture.(Arabic)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Shaban, Fuad. For Zion's Sake: The Judeo-Christian Tradition in American Culture (Arabic). Damascus, Syria: Dar al-Fikr, 2003. Hardcover, no price indicated. This well researched, rigorous book traces the distortions of Christianity in the...