Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from January 2008

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from January 2008

Curricular activism and academic freedom: representations of Arabs and Muslims in print and internet media.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... IN THIS ARTICLE, I WILL ARGUE that movements to restrict academic freedom--a term I will clarify momentarily--are pernicious independently of their political affiliations, but most concretely identified and usefully contested when we...

The portrayal of the East vs. the West in Lady Mary Montagu's Letters and Emily Ruete's Memoirs.
January 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), a great deal of controversy emerged that basically dealt with the West's elitist outlook and misrepresentation of the East. Very few studies concentrated on the other...

The nature of the uncanny in Season of Migration to the North.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... A CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1966) and its metatextual milieu offers a unique insight into the politics and semantics of vengeful sexuality in a postcolonial context. First, the writing of the novel...

The international dimensions of authoritarian regime stability: Jordan in the post-Cold War era.
January 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION EXPLAINING THE RESILIENCE OF authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa has become an urgent question for comparative political scholars. (1) Few Arab political regimes pass democracy's most basic electoral litmus...

Hizbullah: an Islamic Jihadi movement.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Norton, Augustus Richard. Hezbollah: A Short History. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 200 pages. Hardcover $20.95. Harik, Judith Palmer. Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2004, 2006. 256...

Hale, William. Turkey, the US and Iraq.(Oil and Democracy in Iraq)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Hale, William. Turkey, the US and Iraq. London, UK: SAQI and Middle East Institute, SOAS, 2007. 175 pages. Paper $21.95. Springborg, Robert. Editor. Oil and Democracy in Iraq. London, UK: SAQI and Middle East Institute, SOAS, 2007. 160...

Ippolito, Christophe Editor. Translated from the French by Samuel Hazo and Paul B. Kelley. Nadia Tueni: Lebanon, Poems of Love and War/Liban, poemes d' amour et de guerre, A Bilingual Anthology.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Ippolito, Christophe Editor. Translated from the French by Samuel Hazo and Paul B. Kelley. Nadia Tueni: Lebanon, Poems of Love and War/Liban, poemes d' amour et de guerre, A Bilingual Anthology. New York: Syracuse University Press and Beirut:...

Weiss, Thomas G. Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Weiss, Thomas G. Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action. Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007. 176 pages. Paper $19.95. The work is a concise, straightforward, and even-handed analysis of the shifts and contradictions in...

Traboulsi, Fawwaz. A History of Modern Lebanon.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Traboulsi, Fawwaz. A History of Modern Lebanon. Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007. 288 pages. Paper $29.95. Fawwaz Traboulsi writes an impressive account of the history of modern Lebanon over five centuries. It is the only comprehensive...

Noe, Nicholas. Editor. Voices of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.(BOOKS IN BRIEF )(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Noe, Nicholas. Editor. Voices of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. London, UK: Verso, 2007. Paper $19.95. The book offers two decades of statements 32 altogether by the Party's Secretary-General. Nasrallah's interview...

Hafez, Kai. Translated by Alex Skinner. The Myth of Media Globalization.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)
January 1, 2008... Hafez, Kai. Translated by Alex Skinner. The Myth of Media Globalization. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. 232 pages. Hardcover $59.95 Paper $ 24.95. Kai Hafez makes the point that no global public media sphere has been yet established....