Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from September 2003

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from September 2003

Remembrance: Edward W. Said, 1935-2003.
September 22, 2003... Remarks made by Clovis Maksoud, Director of the Center for the Global South at American University at the Edward Said Memorial on 13 November 2003, Georgetown University. WE SHARE TODAY WITH A multitude of others throughout the world the...

Preface.
September 22, 2003... SOCIAL WORK HAS BEEN IN THE ARAB world for nearly 70 years. As several of the articles in this special edition point out, social work thinking is undergoing a probable evolution towards still greater rigor. The present special edition intends...

Social policy in the Arab world: Iraq as a case study.
September 22, 2003... IN ITS ORIGINS, THE CONCEPT of social policy is related to a category of policies manifestly targeted at social (as opposed to political or economic) objectives. In the Arab world, social objectives were a high priority of the political...

Women and empowerment in the Arab world.
September 22, 2003... EMPOWERMENT, JUST LIKE THE TERM "liberation" is a complex and relative notion that implies a scale of power, and a linear progression from one end of that scale to another. One could debate whether the purpose of social welfare policies are to...

Mental health services in the Arab world.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION THE ARAB REGION HAS A POPULATION of 275 million with the highest population density being in Egypt. Despite several similarities that characterize our countries as a "homogenous" region with overlapping problems and...

Marital problems among Arab families: between cultural and family therapy interventions.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION UNTIL TODAY NO EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY to investigate the mental health of the Arab population in most Arab countries (Ibrahim & Ibrahim, 1993) has been carried out. The reasons for this are attributable to the government's...

Principles of social work practice in the Muslim Arab world.
September 22, 2003... THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES SOCIAL WORK in the Muslim Arab world, with particular reference to research that we have undertaken with Muslim Arab peoples in Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. Much of the proceeding analysis is...

Reading Edward Said.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Bayoumi, Moustafa and Andrew Rubin. The Edward Said Reader. New York: Vintage Books, 2000. XXXIV & 472 pages. Paper $15.00. Molestation and authority, the pleasures of exile, extreme performances, and brutal actualities. These are all...

Al-Azma, Aziz. Constantine Zurayk: An Arab for the Twentieth Century (Arabic).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Al-Azma, Aziz. Constantine Zurayk: An Arab for the Twentieth Century (Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: The Institute for Palestine Studies, 2003. Paper $8.00. The life, thought and times of Constantine Zurayk are discussed. Zurayk embodied the...

Baroud, Ramzi. Editor. Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Baroud, Ramzi. Editor. Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002. Seattle, WA: Cune Press, 2003. Hardcover $16.00. A most valuable documentation of the 2002 Jenin refugee camp massacre executed by Israeli forces. The...

Boosahda, Elizabeth. Arab American Faces and Voices: the Origins of an Immigrant Community.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Boosahda, Elizabeth. Arab American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2003. Paper $24.95. The book is based on 200 interviews that make up this essentially oral history project...

Feffer, John. Editor. Power Trip: U. S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Feffer, John. Editor. Power Trip: U. S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11. New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, 2003. Paper $9.95. The book analyzes U.S. foreign policy changes and discusses neo-conservative...

Books received 2002-2003.
September 22, 2003... ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEY An-Nai'm, Abdullahi A. Editor. Islamic Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book London, U.K.: Zed, 2002. Paper $27.50. Cole, Juan. Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite...