Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from March 1994

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from March 1994

The new oil order: built on sand?
March 22, 1994... Put quite simply, what the american people learned from the Gulf War is that it's a helluva lot easier and a helluva lot more fun to "kick ass" in the Middle East (to quote those at the highest levels of government) than it is to make any...

The struggle of Palestinian women in the occupied territories: between national and social liberation.
March 22, 1994... The momentous "breakthrough" in negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, that culminated in the signing of a joint Declaration of Principles in Washington, D.C. on 13 September 1993, caught veteran Middle East...

Palestinian human rights activism under Israeli occupation: the case of al-Haq.
March 22, 1994... 55. Letter from Yitzhak Rabin to Jimmy Carter dated 27 October 1989. Cited in Al-Haq, A Nation Under Siege, pp. 628-629. Mr. Rabin's statement gained international exposure in a New York Times column by Anthony Lewis, "Self-Inflicted Wound," New...

Religious inquisition as social policy: the persecution of the 'Zanadiqa' in the early Abbasid Caliphate.
March 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION IT IS COMMONLY SAID THAT ISLAM IS "DIN WA DAWLA" to convey the statement that in Islam theology and politics are inextricably intertwined. (Din is translated as theology in order to avoid the restrictive meaning the term religion...

Ibn Khaldun: dynastic change and its economic consequences.
March 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION IBN KHALDUN WAS BORN IN TUNISIA IN 1332 and died in Egypt in 1406. He is a famous philosopher, and is sometimes considered the first sociologist for his critical remarks on how history should be studied. He outlined dynastic...

Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About U.S.-Israeli Relationship.
March 22, 1994... One of the most abiding features of the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the asymmetrical nature of the balance of power between its main protagonists: Politically, militarily, financially, linguistically, and organizationally, the...

The Crystallization of the Arab State System: 1945-1954.
March 22, 1994... There is very little that could be added to our knowledge of inter-Arab rivalries during the immediate years leading to and following the creation of the state of Israel. A period of great upheaval resulting from the implanting of a new state in...

Palestinian Autonomy, Self-Government, and Peace.
March 22, 1994... This book is an uncritical account of the diplomatic history of Palestinian autonomy negotiations. Chapter One, "An Introduction to the Arab-Israeli Conflict," divides pre-Camp David history into three stages. Stage one sketches the history of...

The Politics of Change in the Middle East.
March 22, 1994... This book is a product of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy which was formed under the initiative of former AIPAC officials. It focuses on change and continuity in the domestic politics of seven countries - Syria, Iraq, Iran, Jordan,...

FIS de la haine.
March 22, 1994... The freest legislative elections since Algeria's independence in 1962 were held on 26 December 1991. The first ballot of those pluralist elections was won by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), the main beneficiary of the democratic process, a...