Volume One
Number 2 (September 2002)

Table of Contents
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
REFLECTIONS
POLITICS
The War on Iraq: A Special Report
The War on Iraq: It's Happening Now
Fran Shor and Jon Basil Utley
Vanishing Act: Making an Entire People
just 'Disappear.'
Bobeck Modjtahedi
The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the US
Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply.
Thomas J. Nagy
Sanctions Against Iraq are Genocide
Prof. George Bisharart
What Everyone Should Know:
The View from Australia
Jack King
Bush Planned 'regime change'
Neil Mackay
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Naivety vs. Objectivity: Arab Historiography
and the Palestinian Cause
Maher Al-Sherif
American Zionists and Historiography
James Zoghby
COMMUNITY STUDIES
The Maronite Community of Cyprus:
Past, Present and Future
Andrekos Varnava
The Maronites of Cyprus
Edward Bowron
ORIENTALISM
The Aryan Dimension of Matthew Arnold's
Approach to the Arab-Islamic Orient.
Dr. Muhammad A. Al-Da'mi
PHILOSOPHY
Historical Background to Greek Philosophy:
The Syrian Connection.
Dr. Adel Beshara
FEMINISM
Arab Feminism and Islam: Some Theoretical
Considerations
Rayyan Al-Shawaf
MILITARY HISTORY
Rome vs. Carthage: The Day the World Trembled
Lee Levin
FEATURE
Witness to horror - A journey back to
Sabra and Shatila
TRAVEL
The Splendor of Petra
Maxine Rose Schur
POETRY
Ain Al Sultan: A Spring of Peace
Anne Fairbairn
LAST BUT NOT LEAST