Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from June 2007

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from June 2007

Faith Zeadey: 1938-2006.(In memoriam)
June 22, 2007... Faith Zeadey was born on Cape Cod, MA to Lebanese Parents. While cherishing her Lebanese origin, she was truly dedicated to working for justice in the Arab world, and particularly in Palestine. Faith was taken from us and her family on February...

Samih K. Farsoun (1937-2005).(In memoriam)
June 22, 2007... Born in Haifa, Palestine in 1937, Professor Samih K. Farsoun died unexpectedly on 9 June 2005 at the age of 68 in New Buffalo, Michigan. This tribute is based on a speech I delivered at the June 29, 2005 commemoration held at the Palestine...

Introduction.
June 22, 2007... DURING THE FIRST YEARS OF THE twenty-first century, the Arab world has been assaulted by multiple crises, including but not limited to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq, the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, infighting among various...

The AAUG: an activist, academic organization.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)
June 22, 2007... IN 1968 I RETURNED TO THE U.S. AFTER four years in Beirut and London to begin my first university teaching job. I was shocked by the low level or lack of reasonable discussion on the Middle East, especially Palestine, even among my academic...

Unfulfilled expectations the genesis and demise of the AAUG.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)
June 22, 2007... THE CONTEXT THE GENESIS OF ANY SOCIAL MOVEMENT is rarely the product of a single event or incident, and social movements always occur in a meaningful context that explains the reasons for their establishment and their goals. However, major...

The AAUG: aspirations and failures.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)
June 22, 2007... THE AAUG WAS BORN OUT OF the rubble of the defeat of Arab nationalism caused by the June 1967 Arab Israeli War and the attendant rise of a popular Palestinian guerilla movement of resistance to Israeli occupation. For many of the...

The AAUG: reflections on a lost opportunity.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)
June 22, 2007... THE CONTEXT THE JUNE 1967 WAR WAS, in so many respects, a devastating military/political rout for the Arab world. Its implications are still being felt. In a short period of six days, Israel defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan....

AAUG: a memoir.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)
June 22, 2007... THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER OF 1967, I barely left the television for even an hour or two lest I miss the news that the United Nations had arranged Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories. I wanted to hear it as soon as it...

Reflections on the rise and decline of an Arab-American organization.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)
June 22, 2007... Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations.... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of...

Reversing injustice: on Utopian activism.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(American Arabic Association)(Organization overview)
June 22, 2007... THE BEGINNING IT WAS MAY 1967. I HAD JUST SAID goodbye to Janet and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and their four children in Northampton, MA. They were to depart later in the summer for Evanston, Illinois, where Ibrahim was to take up his new...

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him" (1): an assessment of the AAUG as an example of an activist Arab-American organization.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... IN A VERY REAL SENSE, I WAS involved in AAUG-type activities long before that organization was established in 1967. Indeed, in 1956, my first year of undergraduate study at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, I found myself being invited to...

Remembering the AAUG.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)
June 22, 2007... MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE Association of Arab-American University Graduates occurred in November 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio. I went there, based on a hunch that this would be the best forum where I could become involved in Arab-American affairs...

AAUG: a personal introspection.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION MY REFLECTIONS AND INTROSPECTION about AAUG, the role it played, and the role it did not, or could not play during its active life in the USA, are based on my direct involvement in the Association for six intensive years...

Reflections on the rise and decline of AAUG.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)
June 22, 2007... AS WAS THE CASE FOR MOST IMMIGRANTS, Arabs immigrants needed a support system to help them adjust to the realities of the new country. Although immigrants from the Arab world already had a long history in this country, there were no national...

The AAUG experience: an assessment.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)
June 22, 2007... MILLIONS OF ARAB CITIZENS TOOK TO the streets in almost every major Arab city on the 10 June 1967 proclaiming their intent to reverse the consequences of the June 1967 war, the third Arab-Israeli war, and their determination to defeat Israel's...

A cultural, not a political lobby the mixed legacy of a grand plan.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... ONE OF THE MAJOR DIFFICULTIES of reflecting upon and assessing a collective experience is to find the appropriate voice. To whom, or for whom, does one write? The membership which shaped and built an organization, or the external community...

Organizing Arab-American professionals: AAUG and me.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... THE CONTEXT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARAB-AMERICAN University Graduates in the late 1960s was an outcome of historic events, and the general context of the time, particularly the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Arab-American professionals:...

AAUG in the 1990s: in search of purpose, resources, and good organizational culture.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)
June 22, 2007... I JOINED THE ASSOCIATION OF Arab-American University Graduates in the early 1990s shortly after moving to the United States to take up an assignment at the United Nations. I served the organization as Secretary (1995), Vice President (1996),...

The AAUG in my eyes.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(Organization overview)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... THE ASSOCIATION OF ARAB-AMERICAN University Graduates (AAUG) is an organization to which I personally owe a great deal. The AAUG, in its heyday, represented the good and potential of the Arab-American community. Its membership and activists...

Ilan Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
June 22, 2007... Ilan Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: One World Publications, 2007. 313 pages. US $27.50. A SOLE THOUGHT WAS STIRRING THE coarse mind of Israel's founders for the demographic woes facing the establishment of a Jewish state...

Samih K. Farsoun and Naseer Aruri. Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Samih K. Farsoun and Naseer Aruri. Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History. 2nd edition. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2006, 467 pages. Paper, no price indicated. THERE ARE MANY TREATMENTS, both historical and...

Philippa Strum, ed. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. American Arabs and Political Participation.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Philippa Strum, ed. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. American Arabs and Political Participation. Division of United States Studies, 2006. Paper, no price indicated. The book consists of a series of talks given at a...

Ismael Hossein-zadeh. The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Ismael Hossein-zadeh. The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006. Hardcover, $75. In a well-written and very readable book, Ismael Hossein-zadeh seeks to provide answers to two questions: Why have U.S....

Fidela Amara (with Sylvia Zappi). Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Fidela Amara (with Sylvia Zappi). Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto. (Translated with an Introduction by Helen Harden Chenut). Originally published in France as Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whore Nor Submissive)....

Makdisi Ussama, and Paul A. Silverstein. Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa.(BOOKS IN BRIEF--SUMMER/FALL 2007)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Makdisi Ussama, and Paul A. Silverstein. Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Paper $24.95. Memory and Violence explores the relation between histories of violence and...

Pratt, Nicola. Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World.(BOOKS IN BRIEF--SUMMER/FALL 2007)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Pratt, Nicola. Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. Paper $ 22.00. Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World contributes to the reinterpretation of the emergence of...

Doumato, Eleanor and Abdella and Gregory Starrett (Eds). Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East.(BOOKS IN BRIEF--SUMMER/FALL 2007)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Doumato, Eleanor and Abdella and Gregory Starrett (Eds). Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2006. Hardcover $ 55.00. Much has been made about the role played by Saudi Arabia's...

Books received 2006-2007.
June 22, 2007... ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS Abu Zayd, Nasr. Reformation of Islamic Thought." A Critical Historical Analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. Paper $52.50. Ahmed, Akbar S. Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization....