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