Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from June 1997

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from June 1997

Preface. (Arab-Israeli conflict and the Association of Arab-American University Graduates)
June 22, 1997... Karl Marx observed that when history appears to repeat itself it comes around "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." There has not been much room for comedy in the way history repeats itself in the Arab World; rather, tragedy...

Is the peace process a process for peace? A retrospective analysis of Oslo. (peace agreement between Arab countries and Israel being forged in Oslo, Norway)
June 22, 1997... 587768 INO INTRODUCTION Oslo is not presently a process for peace; Oslo is a process for agreements which are creating volatile conditions on the ground. Nonetheless, Oslo may lead to peace based on principles different from those found in...

The U.S. and the Arabs: a woeful history. (US Middle East policy)
June 22, 1997... 587769 INO United States policy in the Middle East during the past half century has been the subject of conflicting interpretations. It has been described as a "non-policy", a policy without vision, a policy by increments, sorely lacking an...

The United Nations and Palestine: partition and its aftermath. (UN stance on Palestine's displacement by creation of Israel)
June 22, 1997... 587770 INO At key points in its history the United Nations has been a major player in the Middle East. It was the agency chosen by the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and their allies in 1947 to enact the partition of Palestine through General...

The culture of resistance: the 1967 War in the context of the Palestinian struggle. (Israeli-Arab war of 1967; Palestinian displacement by creation of Israel)
June 22, 1997... 587771 INO What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion. . . . Albert Camus INTRODUCTION While Palestinian...

From June 1967 to June 1997: learning from our mistakes.
June 22, 1997... The thirtieth anniversary of the June 1967 debacle has been an occasion to evoke painful memories, draw lessons, assess the causes of Arab defeat and produce a host of written analytical articles and historical essays, reminiscences and...

An interview with Sadik Al-Azm. (University of Damascus professor)(Interview)
June 22, 1997... We would like to ask you to go back to the 1960s and to the Arab liberation movement and your role in it, specifically to the dominant thought during that period and your seminal work Naqd al-Fikr al-Dini. The thought of the Sixties, at least...

The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De- development.
June 22, 1997... Reviewed by Ibrahim G. Aoude This timely work is a thorough indictment of Israel's destructive policies toward indigenous Palestinian culture and society in the Gaza Strip. Roy's work falls into four parts. Part one, comprising four chapters,...

Christians in the Holy Land.
June 22, 1997... Reviewed by Andrej Kreutz While the conflicts in the Middle East and some other general problems of the area have attracted a great deal of attention from English language scholars, and even from the public at large, the situation of the...

Christian Communities in Jerusalem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social and Political Study.
June 22, 1997... Reviewed by Andrej Kreutz While the conflicts in the Middle East and some other general problems of the area have attracted a great deal of attention from English language scholars, and even from the public at large, the situation of the...

Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1770-1900.
June 22, 1997... Reviewed by Mahmood Ibrahim Professor Doumani has made an outstanding contribution not only to the study of Palestine but also to Ottoman studies as a whole. The framework that he utilizes is conceptually tight, yet elastic enough that it...

Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Palestine and Israel Since 1945.
June 22, 1997... Reviewed by Ian Williams "What a long strange road it's been," as the Grateful Dead's Gerry Garcia said. The survivors of the Middle East conflict have reason to be grateful to Donald Neff's book as it meticulously chronicles U.S. diplomacy's...