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