Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from September 2008

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from September 2008

Mahmoud Darwish: 1942-2008.(In memoriam)
September 22, 2008... IDENTITY CARD Write down! I am an Arab And my identity card number is fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth will come after a summer Will you be angry? Write down! I am an Arab ...

Framing the "threat to Islam": al-wala' wa al-bara' in Salafi discourse.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION IN RECENT YEARS, THE WORLD has witnessed several mass protests staged by Muslims against what they saw as insults to Islam. The best-known example of these is probably the wave of demonstrations against the Danish cartoons of...

Cultural hegemony, resistance and reconstruction of national identity among Palestinian students in Israel.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION IN THIS ESSAY, I FOCUS ON the experience of the Palestinians who fell under Israel's control in 1948 and their struggle to maintain and preserve their national identity despite systematic Israeli efforts to create a state of...

The Orient "made Oriental": a study of William Beckford's Vathek.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... I do not believe that authors are mechanically determined by ideology, class, or economic history, but authors are... very much in the history of their societies, shaping and shaped by that history and their social experience in different...

Hisham Sharabi. Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Hisham Sharabi. Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual. Translated by Issa J. Boullata. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2008.186 pages. Paper $15.00. THE 1967 WAR TRIGGERED a frantic Arab-American rush to organize and to...

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Gregory Starret. Editors. Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Gregory Starret. Editors. Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007. 265 pages. Hardcover $55.00. In November 2003, a conference initiated by Eleanor Abdella...

Mearsheimer, John J. & Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Mearsheimer, John J. & Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 484 pages. Hardcover $26.00. "The Israel Lobby" as a subject is important in the 2008, US elections where candidates compete...

De Chatel, Francesca. Water Sheiks and Dam Builders: Stories of People and Water in the Middle East.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... De Chatel, Francesca. Water Sheiks and Dam Builders: Stories of People and Water in the Middle East. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2007, 207 pages. Hardcover $ 32.95. In Water Sheiks and Dam Builders: Stories of People and...

Hovsepian, Nubar, Editor. The War on Lebanon: A Reader.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Hovsepian, Nubar, Editor. The War on Lebanon: A Reader. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2008. 422 pages. Paper $ 20.00. Nubar Hovsepian counters US-Israeli allegations about the nature of the 2006 war, as the title of his book makes...

Howell, Mark. What Did We Do to Deserve This? Palestinian Life Under Occupation in the West Bank.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Howell, Mark. What Did We Do to Deserve This? Palestinian Life Under Occupation in the West Bank. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishers, 2008. 240 pages. Hardcover $19.95. Based on photographs, interviews and personal testimonies of ordinary...

Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2007, 208 pages. Hardcover $ 24.96. Joan Wallach Scott's book refutes the view that the 2004 ban on wearing "conspicuous signs" of religious...

Books received 2007-2008.
September 22, 2008... ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Editor. Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-i Nut. Albany. NY: Suny Press, 2008. Paper $ 29.95. Ayoob, Mohammed. The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and...