Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from September 1999

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from September 1999

ISLAMISTS, THE STATE, AND COOPERATION IN JORDAN.
September 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION BOTH SCHOLARS AND POLICY-MAKERS alike represent the relationship between Islamic movements and the state in terms of political conflict. Whether manifested as militant groups or moderate reformists, Islamists are labeled as...

INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM: CHALLENGES FACING PALESTINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
September 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION AS A NATION, PALESTINIANS ARE AMONG the best educated people in the post-colonial world, a status made all the more significant by the adverse conditions under which it has been achieved. Due to the Israeli occupation and the...

CLASH OF POLITICS OR CIVILIZATIONS? SECTARIANISM AMONG YOUTH IN LEBANON [*].
September 22, 1999... THE SECOND LEBANESE REPUBLIC, created by the 1989 Ta'if Agreement, is rife with paradoxes. Recognizing that sectarianism was one of the principal causes of the conflict that had racked the country since 1975, those Lebanese politicians who...

CONTRARY VIEWS OF ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY IN THE ARAB WORLD: EGYPT.
September 22, 1999... SOMETIMES THE COMMONLY ACCEPTED assumptions about a subject can be found to be incorrect by simply checking the basics. For the economic diplomacy of Egypt toward the Middle East, and the Middle East toward Egypt after Camp David, a lot can be...

Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Evelyn Shakir. Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997, 226 pp. Paper $22.95. Women of Arab ancestry in America want to feel ourselves... spiritually if not physically, a part of our ethnic...

Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process?(Review)
September 22, 1999... Ghada Karmi, Editor. Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 1996. 191 pp. Hardcover, no price indicated. Jerusalem, the Holy City of the three great monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism...

Political Islam and the New World Disorder.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Bassam Tibi. The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 282 pp. Hardcover $29.95. Liberal Muslim scholars in the 1990s face a dilemma. On the one hand, they...

Heinemann Educational Publishers.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words, Cynthia Hahn, tr. Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1996. 183 pp. Paperback $13.95. Evelyne Accad, one of the leading feminists in the Arab-American community and in the Arab world, is a fiction...

Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Tomis Kapitan, Editor. Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1997, 382 pp. Paper $29.95. Fifty years of Palestinian dispossession and still timing is everything for academic...

Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform?(Review)
September 22, 1999... John L. Esposito, Editor. Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? Boulder: Lynne Riener Publishers, 1997. 281pp., including bibliography and index. Hardcover $55.00. It is only on rare occasions that one encounters an edited...

Legislative Politics in the Arab World: The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Baaklini, Abdo, Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg. Legislative Politics in the Arab World: The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. Paper $22.50. The book attempts to construct a theoretical...

Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Harris, William. Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1997. Paper, no price indicated. Harris analyzes Lebanon since 1920, concentrating on its geopolitics and sectarian...

Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Hudson, Michael C. (Ed). Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1999. Paper $17.50. This work is divided into three parts: (1) The Changing Arab Regional System; (2)...

State, Society, and Democracy in Morocco: The Limits of Associative Life.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Layachi, Azzedine. State, Society and Democracy in Morocco: The Limits of Associative Life. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1999. Paper, $16.95. Contrary to scholars...

The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Piro, Timothy J. The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan. Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998. Paper, $19.95. The author offers another view of Jordanian politics as he examines its interaction with the...