Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from March 2002

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from March 2002

Introduction.
March 22, 2002... AN AXIOM OF ACADEMIC DISCOURSE is that war is an extension of politics but by other means. Over the course of history, as a result of the innate brutality of war, certain rules of conduct for warfare have been agreed upon and legally solemnized...

Terrorism, counterterrorism and international law.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION WHAT DO NELSON MANDELA, Menachem Begin, Gerry Adams and Yasser Arafat have in common? They all made the transition from being regarded as terrorists to being recognized as statesmen and peacemakers. In fact, three of them,...

Understanding, responding to, and preventing terrorism.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, nineteen individuals hijacked and commandeered U.S. airplanes, turned them into guided missiles and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C., killing more...

The aftermath of September 11, 2001: The targeting of Arabs and Muslims in America.
March 22, 2002... Words and images [run] together like watercolors on a child's easel--Arabs, mosque, terrorism, Muslims, extremists--making it hard to tell where one began and another left off. (1) THE DEMONIZATION OF ISLAM AND ARAB-AMERICANS THE...

Wholesale terrorism escalates: the threat of genocide.
March 22, 2002... FOR DECADES IT HAS BEEN THE STANDARD practice of the U.S. mainstream media to designate Palestinian attacks on Israelis as acts of "terrorism," whereas acts of Israeli violence against Palestinians are described as "retaliation" and...

Poems.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Poems. Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' ONLY THROUGH YOUR LOVE CAN WE SURVIVE [September 17, 2001] To the children who lost their parents in the tragic attacks on ...

Terrorism: books in brief--spring and winter 2002.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... AbuKhalil, As'ad. Bin Laden, Islam and America's New "War on Terrorism." New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, 2002. Paper, $8.95. Written before the defeat of the Taliban, the book makes for interesting reading about America's role in the...