Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from June 2001

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from June 2001

MISSING: THE BIAS IMPLICIT IN THE ABSENT.(news reporting of the Israel-Arab conflicts)
June 22, 2001... U.S. mainstream media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brings accusations of bias from all sides. But beyond the predictable polemics of constituent groups there is another type of media bias at work -- the virtual absence of...

CONTROL AND RESISTANCE AT LOCAL- LEVEL INSTITUTIONS: A STUDY OF KAFR YASSIF'S LOCAL COUNCIL UNDER THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION ALTHOUGH LOCAL-LEVEL INSTITUTIONS are known to play a fundamental role both in the trickle down of State power and in local resistance to the State, little attention has been paid to the circumstances surrounding the...

THE LIMITS OF AN ALLIANCE: TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS REVISITED.
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE IS A CRITICAL ANALYSIS of the recent Turkish-Israeli relations. The core aim of this study is to claim the existence of limits within the Turkish-Israeli Alliance, following a 'societal-Constructivist' approach to...

CENTRIFUGAL TENDENCIES IN THE ALGERIAN CIVIL WAR.
June 22, 2001... IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, after nearly a decade of violence, the civil war in Algeria is winding down. A unilateral cease-fire sponsored by the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS) in 1997 and the regime's Civil Concord initiative, which promised amnesty...

A DEMOCRACY WITH FANGS AND CLAWS AND ITS EFFECTS ON EGYPTIAN POLITICAL CULTURE.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION SINCE HOSNI MUBARAK BECAME Egyptian president in October 1981 numerous critics, observers, and governments amongst others have been insistent on calling for further democracy in Egypt while denouncing the 'slow pace' at which...

BARGAINING WITH PATRIARCHY: GENDER, VOICE AND SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST.(Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East)(Review)
June 22, 2001... Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo, Editors. Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 1997. 236 pages + index. Paper $19.50. THIS EDITED BOOK IS A COLLECTION of essays first presented at...

Religious Minorities in Iran.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Eliz Sanasarian, Religious Minorities in Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 228 pages. Hardcover $59.95. WRITING IN AN EVEN-HANDED MANNER about the treatment of non-Muslim religious minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran...

Understanding the Contemporary Middle East.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Deborah J. Gerner. Editor. Understanding the Contemporary Middle East. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. 420 pages. Paper $ 22.00. DEBORAH GERNER, A POLITICAL SCIENTIST at the University of Kansas, has made various...