Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from June 2000

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from June 2000

THE INTERIM AGREEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW.
June 22, 2000... Editor's Note: With the Final Status negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestine National Authority apparently near, the background concerning them becomes critical. The editors of Arab Studies Quarterly felt that its readership would...

WOMEN IN THE DISCOURSE OF SAYYID QUTB.
June 22, 2000... THIS IS A STUDY OF THE THEORETICAL bases and philosophy of modern Islamic fundamentalist discourse as they relate to women's rights and duties and their role in society in general. Many questions will be dealt with, specifically those...

DYNASTIC MODERNISM AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS: TESTING THE LIMITS OF PLURALISM, TRIBALISM, AND KING HUSSEIN'S EXAMPLE IN HASHEMITE JORDAN.
June 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE WAS NOT MEANT to be read (nor was it originally written) as a postmortem, but circumstances have forced it into that mold. The practice of "monarchic pluralism" I describe below has been inherited, along with the...

SECTARIAN ATTITUDES AS A FUNCTION OF THE PALESTINIAN PRESENCE IN LEBANON.
June 22, 2000... BACKGROUND THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CRISIS accelerated on 18 April 1948 when several thousand Palestinians fled their homes and poured into neighboring Arab countries. As Israeli historian Benny Morris noted, along with the establishment of...

THE LANDSCAPE OF PALESTINE: EQUIVOCAL POETRY.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Roger Heacock, Khaled Nashef (Editors), The Landscape of Palestine: Equivocal Poetry. Birzeit: Birzeit University Publications. 1999. Xviii+268 pages. Paper $19.00. THE LANDSCAPE OF PALESTINE: EQUIVOCAL POETRY is a long...

The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Developments of its Genres and Criticism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Roger Allen, The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Developments of its Genres and Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 437 pages, including index. Hardcover $95.00. "It is with a conscious awareness of the need for an...

Sudan in Crisis: The Failure of Democracy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... G. Norman Anderson, Sudan in Crisis: The Failure of Democracy. University Press of Florida, 1999. 272 pages. Hardcover $49.95. The opening sentence of this book sets the stage for the analysis that follows: "On being appointed American...

The Sociolinguistic Market in Cairo: Gender, Class and Education.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Niloofar Haeri. The Sociolinguistic Market in Cairo. Gender, Class and Education. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 273 pages. Hardcover $110. Haeri offers an empirical sociolinguistic investigation of the roles of gender, social...

The Muslim World.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Jonathan E. Brockopp, Ed. "Islamic Ethics of Killing and Saving Life," Special Issue of The Muslim World. Hartford, CT: The Duncan Black Macdonald Center, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 2 April 1999, 209 pages. Paperback $25. In past traditional Muslim...

The Arab Shi'a: The Forgotten Muslims.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Graham E. Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke. The Arab Shi'a: The Forgotten Muslims. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 290 pp. Hardcover $5.00. Graham Fuller, a political analyst at RAND corporation and former vice chairman of national...