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