Volume TWO
Number 6 (Sept. 2003)

Table of Contents
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
LETTER FROM ABROAD
POLITICS
Lebanon's communal elite-mass politics:
The institutionalization of disintegration
Dr. Farid el-Khazen
Symbolic interaction and its relevance
to Lebanon
Dr. Munir Khuri
POLITICAL THEORY
Myth and Reality: The two sides of Arab
Nationalism
Jessica West
Syrian Unity in the strategy and ideology of
the Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Inam Raad
LITERATURE
Bahrayni Intellectuals and the recreation of a
Gulf-centered national past and history.
Dr. Dennis Walker
Khalil Hawi: A Graceful Poet from the
Vineyards of Lebanon
Fuad Said Haddad
SATIRE
Lucian of Samosata: Was he Syria's
first rhetorician?
To Lucian of Samosata
Lucian: The Extra-Terrestrial!
Lucian's Works
CREATIVE THOUGHT
Spicing the Coversation: The development of proverbs
and its role in Arab culture
Sheila K. Webster
ART
Georges David Corm: 1896-1971
Artist of Homeland issues
Dr. Andrew Beasley
TRIBUTE
To Sir with Love: A personal tribute
to Dr. Edward Said
Aida Qassim
BOOK REVIEW
LAST BUT NOT LEAST