Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from March 2001

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from March 2001

IN MEMORIAM: Ibrahim Abu-Lughod 1929-2001.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... IBRAHIM ABU-LUGHOD, one of the original founders of Arab Studies Quarterly and its parent organization, the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, passed away on 23 May, in Ramallah, Palestine, after a long illness. Professor...

THE SUDAN SINCE 1989: NATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT RULE.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION THE SUDAN, AFRICA'S LARGEST COUNTRY, is often viewed as being peripheral to both the 'Arab' Middle East and non-Arab Africa. As a dominantly Muslim country it is often included in regional Middle Eastern political geography,...

THE IMPASSE IN THE CIVIL WAR.
March 22, 2001... THE CIVIL WAR IN THE SUDAN is at an impasse. The government and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) remain at loggerheads. Moreover, the government and opposition are dividing into warring factions, epitomized by the power struggle...

SLAVERY IN THE SUDAN SINCE 1989.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION ONE IMAGINES THAT THE BRUTAL HISTORY of slavery is long over and should only be the study of historians. The sad and well-documented truth is that this sordid business in fellow human beings has not only continued but it has...

SOLVING THE CRISIS OF SUDAN: THE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION VERSUS STATE TORTURE.
March 22, 2001... AS IN MANY ARAB AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES, [1] the discourse of Sudanese state-torture policies and/or practices indicates that these dehumanizing atrocities are strongly correlated with tyrannical regimes, rather than democratically-oriented...

MIGRATION WITH A FEMININE FACE: BREAKING THE CULTURAL MOLD.
March 22, 2001... Women are the homeland, and now they are here. Janice Boddy, Managing Tradition 1995:21 Travel, migration and movement invariably bring us up against the limits of our inheritance. We may choose to withdraw from this impact and only select...

THE INSECURE RENDEZVOUS BETWEEN ISLAM AND TOTALITARIANISM: THE FAILURE OF THE ISLAMIST STATE IN THE SUDAN.
March 22, 2001... THE EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND the rise, disintegration and eventually fall of the current regime in the Sudan, which might be obvious to some observers for a variety of reasons, is among the most complicated. This puzzle is reflected in a number of...

Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Sondra Hale. Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. Hardcover, 294 pp., glossary, index FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGISTS HAVE COME a long way in challenging previous models of "women and...

The Sudan -- Contested National Identities.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ann Mosely Lesch, The Sudan -- Contested National Identities, Indiana University Press: Bloomington, Indiana, 1998. 336 pp. Paperback, $19.95. This book presents a detailed account of Sudan's ethno-political cleavages and the striving for...