Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from March 2000

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from March 2000

INTRODUCTION.
March 22, 2000... Janice J. Terry We created every living creature of water. Will they then not believe? Qu'ran, al-Anbiya' 30 THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER and its equitable distribution in the water scarce region of the Mashraq and eastern Mediterranean...

GLOBAL OVERVIEW: WATER RESOURCES AND DISTRIBUTION ISSUES.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION IT IS APPROPRIATE TO EXAMINE the concept of water resource systems as a foundation for consideration of the distribution issues that impact human use of the resource throughout the world. One helpful approach is to consider a...

THE ESSENTIALS OF SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE.
March 22, 2000... INRODUCTION THE CURRENT PEACE PROCESS offers a special opportunity for all the nations in the Middle East to abandon the existing status of belligerency, confrontation, non-cooperation, and polarization. The ultimate objective is to arrive...

A PROPOSAL FOR AN EQUITABLE RESOLUTION TO THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE ISRAELIS AND THE PALESTINIANS OVER THE SHARED WATER RESOURCES OF THE MOUNTAIN AQUIFER.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION IN THE PRESENT POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT and advanced stages in the search for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the signing of the Oslo agreement of 1993 and the Sharm al-Sheikh agreement of 1999, some have...

WATER ISSUES IN HASHEMITE JORDON.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION THE WATER ISSUES THAT JORDAN has been facing and will face are outlined. Most of them stem from the imbalance in the population-water resources equation. The imbalance has been due to surges in population levels and a high...

TURKEY'S APPROACH TO UTILIZATION OF THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS RIVERS.
March 22, 2000... SINCE THE 1970S, BOTH TURKEY and Syria have pursued large-scale irrigation and hydro-energy projects on the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and their tributaries. With the commencement of these large-scale projects, water has become a source of...

DEFINING THE POLITICAL/ECOLOGICAL THRESHOLD FOR THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS RIVERS.
March 22, 2000... PROFESSOR TOMANBAY'S ARTICLE presenting Turkey's approach to the utilization of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers demonstrates the keen nationally focused attention brought to the problem by each of the three riparians sharing the two rivers....

COMPENSATION AS PART OF EQUITABLE UTILIZATION IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN WATER CONTEXT.
March 22, 2000... ALTHOUGH PARTIES WITH GRIEVANCES against one another are more likely to settle such grievances by emphasizing forward steps toward common interests rather than dwelling on past animosities, the failure to account adequately for past grievances...