Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from June 2004

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from June 2004

Representations of Jerusalem in the modern Palestinian novel.
June 22, 2004... THIS ESSAY STUDIES THE TEXTUAL representations of the City of Jerusalem in the modern Palestinian novel. It is generally guided by Blanche Houseman Gelfant's deductive framework of the city novel. Gelfant has suggested that "through literary...

Intercessory wasta and village development in Lebanon.
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE ROLE of wasta in contemporary village life in Lebanon, focussing on its use in, and impact on, local development projects. Wasta (coll.--waseet in formal Arabic), which means either mediation or...

"Jordan first": Jordan's inter-Arab relations and foreign policy under King Abdullah II.
June 22, 2004... THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN has long played a regional foreign policy role that seems to belie its small size and its limited economic and military means. (1) That role in no way diminished even after the succession in the Jordanian...

Strange fruit? Syrian immigrants, extralegal violence and racial formation in the Jim Crow South *.
June 22, 2004... "MOB IN FLORIDA LYNCHES WHITE Man; Wife Slain" announced the bold-type headline of the New York Evening World newspaper on 17 May 1929. (1) The accompanying article describes briefly the circumstances surrounding the killing of "N.G. Romey,...

Yves Teyssier D'Orfeuil, Michel Sabbah: Paix sur Jerusalem. Propos D'un Eveque Palestinien.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Yves Teyssier D'Orfeuil, Michel Sabbah: Paix sur Jerusalem. Propos D'un Eveque Palestinien (Paris: Desclee de Brauwer, 2002), 297 pages, THE AUTHOR, A FRENCH HISTORIAN and political scientist, who spent two years teaching at the Catholic...

Keiko Sakai, Editor. Social Protests and Nation Building in the Middle East and Central Asia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Keiko Sakai, Editor. Social Protests and Nation Building in the Middle East and Central Asia. (Chiba, Japan: Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO): 2003). Xvii and 217 pp. No price indicated....

Baker, Raymond William. Islam Without Feat: Egypt and the New Islamists.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Baker, Raymond William. Islam Without Feat: Egypt and the New Islamists. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003. Hardcover $29.95. Baker argues that the New Islamists are the best bet for Egypt to get out of its deep political,...

Everest, Larry. Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Everest, Larry. Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004. Paper $19.95. This well documented book shows the machinations of the U.S. as it tries to dominate the Middle East. This...

Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee Problem.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee Problem. London, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2004. Paper $24.95. The book is meticulously documented and demonstrates the way in which "transfer" is deeply embedded in Zionist...