Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from September 1998

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from September 1998

Orientalism and Arab-Islamic history: an inquiry into the orientalists' motives and compulsions.
September 22, 1998... "They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented" Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. "Soldiers, from the top of the pyramids, forty centuries look down on you!" Napoleon Bonaparte As the intellectual...

The rise and demise of the left in West Bank politics: the case of the Palestine National Front.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The origins of the predominance of President Yasir Arafat's Fatah organization in the Palestinian Authority and its rivalry with the Islamist movements can be located in a time well before the implementation of the Oslo...

Reagan and Begin, Bibi and Jerry: the theopolitical alliance of the Likud party with the American Christian "right".
September 22, 1998... On 19 January 1998, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington, D.C. for what the press characterized as a critical showdown with President Clinton concerning the faltering Middle East peace process. Shortly after...

Rituals of reconciliation: Arab-Islamic perspectives.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Over the past ten years, many Middle Eastern scholars and practitioners trained in the United States have returned to their countries of origin ready to impart what they have learned about Western conflict resolution...

Al-Balda al-Ukhra: a meta-text unveiled.(novel, meaning the other village)
September 22, 1998... Ibrahim Abd al-Maguid, a rising star on the Arab literary scene, was awarded the American University in Cairo 1996 prize for his novel Al-Balda al-Ukhra (The Other Village), a work that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is...