Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from March 1999

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from March 1999

Samiha Khalil.(Palestinian woman leader)(Obituary)
March 22, 1999... (1923-1999) Samiha Khalil, known lovingly to her devotees as Um Khalil, died in 1999 in Ramallah, Palestine, after a full and eventful life. Although she could be eulogized as the first woman in the Arab world to run for the office of...

Post-communist Eastern Europe and the Middle East: the burden of history and new political realities.
March 22, 1999... The collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe and the emergence of a completely new geopolitical and social reality which is strikingly different from its forerunner, probably represented the most important breakthrough in modern world...

Kennedy and the cold war imbroglio: the case of Algeria's independence.(President John F. Kennedy)
March 22, 1999... When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated President on 20 January 1961, the Algerian question had reached a decisive phase, as French authorities had by then conceded the possibility of seeing an Algerian Algeria, but while still hoping to maintain...

Honest brokers? American and Norwegian facilitation of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations (1991-93).
March 22, 1999... The official Israel-Palestinian talks in Washington, which commenced in December 1991 in the wake of the Madrid conference, proceeded through ten rounds without arriving at an agreement. As a mediating power, the United States failed to use its...

The Mokarzels' contributions to the Arabic-speaking community in the United States.(Naoum and Salloum Mokarzel, publishers of Arabic-language newspapers in the United States)
March 22, 1999... This is a study of two brothers, Naoum and Salloum Mokarzel, both of whom were leaders and pioneers, especially in the field of journalism, whose influence and contributions to the Arabic-speaking community spanned a period of some sixty years....

After Oslo: New Realities, Old Problems.(Review)
March 22, 1999... George Giacaman and Dag Jorund Loning, Eds. London and Chicago: Pluto Press, 1998, 241 pp. Paperback, no price indicated. Reviewed by Ibrahim Abu Lughod This is an important and timely collection of ten essays contributed by an...

Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Nadim N. Rouhana. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 231 pp., Appendices pp. 233-243, Notes, pp. 245-273. Bibliography, pp. 275-288, Index, pp. 289-300. Hardcover $30. Reviewed by Elaine C. Hagopian Finally a book which elucidates...

Palestine and the Palestinians.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Samih K. Farsoun with Christina E. Zacharia. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. 375 pages, hardcover, $34.00 Reviewed by Husam A. Mohamad Professor Samih Farsoun with Ph.D. candidate Christina Zacharia have written a valuable,...

Islam and Democracy.(Review)
March 22, 1999... John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 232 pages, index, Hardcover $45.00, paper $17.95. Reviewed by Charles E. Butterworth The question these days is why democratization does not exist in Muslim...

Islamic Fundamentalism.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Abdel Salam Sidahmed and Anoushiravan Ehteshami. Editors. Oxford: Westview Press, 1996. xiiii + 284 pp., including index. Hardcover $69.00, paperback $24.00. Reviewed by Imad-ad-Dean Abroad The desire of today's publishers to thrust...

The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Dale F. Eickelman. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1998. 388 pps. including author and subject indexes, and glossary. Paper $36.00 Reviewed by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi The third edition of Dale Eickelman's introductory textbook on the anthropology...