Volume Two

 

Number 7 (December 2003)

 

 

Table of Contents

 

EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM

LETTER FROM ABROAD

 

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

A Note on Confessionalism:

Pluralism and Confessionalism in the Lebanon

Ahmad Beydoun

Real Sectarianism versus Real Citizenship

Mohammad Moussalli

Comparing Pluralisms: Minorities and Political

Participation in the Middle East

Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous

Problems of Studying Minorities in the

Middle East

P. R. Kumaraswamy

 

CURRENT POLITICS

Palestine: How it all Started

Sami Hadawi

Palestine in Western Public Opinion

Promising Signs at Last!

Dr. Adel Beshara

Democracy in Iraq: "American Style"

Compiled by Dr. Adel Beshara

 

LITERATURE

Ameen Rihani Commemoration

Ameen Rihani's Path Between the Scylla of Fanaticism

and the Charybdis of Modernity

John C. Hawley

Ameen Rihani's Concept of Poetry: A Precursor

of Hadatha

Atif Faddoul

 

LECTURE

Antun Sa'adeh's "First Lecture"

Tr. Eveline Hitti

 

CREATIVE THOUGHT

Muslim Upbringing: A Complex Package of

Beliefs and Attitudes

Rana Kabbani

Voices from the Homeland

Aida Hasan

 

GEO-HISTORY

Maaloula: Star of Christendom

Carol Miller

 

APPRECIATION

BOOK REVIEW
LAST BUT NOT LEAST