Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from June 1996

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from June 1996

Zionism, socialism and United States support for the Jewish colonization of Palestine in the 1920s.
June 22, 1996... THE UNITED STATES AND ANTI-SOCIALISM Just after world war one, in the years 1919-1920, the United States went through a paroxysm of fear and paranoia known as the Red Scare. It was an expression of the widespread anxiety brought on by a war...

The politics of pardon: Israel and Jonathan Pollard.
June 22, 1996... "The State of Israel has no connection with Pollard or his family. The State of Israel did not hire him and did not assign him an espionage mission." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 11 March 1987(1) "Granted, I broke the law. But, to tell you...

Power in numbers: a call for a census of the Palestinian people.
June 22, 1996... A common concern throughout studies on the Palestinian people is the lack of reliable and comprehensive aggregate data.(1) Methodologically, this problems stems from the fact that the last census of the Palestinians was conducted in 1931 during...

Islamist perspectives of regime political response: the cases of Lebanon and Palestine.
June 22, 1996... This essay argues that though breakthrough steps have been made at the formal level between some Arab officials or regimes and Israel, and while similar steps with Syria and Lebanon are expected, major obstacles remain and are likely to intensify...

Algerian Islamists' conception of democracy.
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION The religious question in any Arab/Islamic society should always be examined from a sociological perspective. In essence, this means that one should not consider religion as an independent variable, but should study it as a social...

A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West.
June 22, 1996... Since Samuel P. Huntington initiated discussion in his now famous article, "The Clash of Civilizations?", published in the summer 1994 issue of Foreign Affairs, literature of both the scholarly and polemical variety concerning whether or not Cold...

Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World.
June 22, 1996... Although this book was originally conceived as a comprehensive treatment of Sayyid Qutb, the author then decided to expand it into what Mahmoud Ayoub's foreword calls "a comprehensive analysis of modern Arab Islamic intellectual history. . . ."...

Meinertzhagen's Diary Ruse: False Entries on T.E. Lawrence.
June 22, 1996... It would be possible to write an account of Western-Arab relations in the first half of this century largely through an examination of the career of T. E. Lawrence and the ups and downs of his reputation, especially in the West. Surely no Arabist...

The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought.
June 22, 1996... It is commonplace that Palestine is sacred territory for the three major West Asian religions. How it became sacred for Christians is the subject of Robert L. Wilken's valuable study. The Land Called Holy encompasses two interwoven histories....