Al-Mashriq
Volume
1, Number 1
June 2002
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
REFLECTIONS
POLITICS
The Crisis in the Middle East:
Zionist Intransigence and the Quest for
Palestinian Statehood.
Compiled by Adel Beshara
Corporate America and the Israeli Occupation
Sam Bahour
Pros and Cons of Arab Economic Boycott of US
Fahed Fanek
Gimme Some Truth Now: A walk Through Jenin
Kathy Kelly
Jenin: Remember This Word
Ramzy Baroud
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Political Decay in the Arab World
Dr. Lisa Anderson
POLITICAL HISTORY
Catholic Lebanon After 1930:
State Unit Consolidation, High Culture and
the Crisis in Identity
Dr. Dennis Walker
A Legacy of Frustration:
SSNP-Lebanese State Relations (1935-1938)
Adel Beshara
ECONOMICS
Ibn Khaldun: Father of Economics
Ibrahim M. Oweiss
MEDIA
Contesting the State Media Monopoly:
Syria on al-Jazira Television
Dr. Najib Ghadbian
FEMINISM
Women in the Arab World: Where to?
Dr. Nouha al-Hegalan
Arab Women's Contribution to Society,
History, and Culture.
Claims (poem)
Lisa Majaj
EDUCATION
The Fertile Crescent: Cradle of Civilization
The Changing Alphabet
Lucia Beck
The Naked Truth
TRIBUTE
Naji al-Ali (1936-1987)
The Palestinian Cartoonist Par Excellence
I am From Ain Al-Helwa
Handala
BOOK REVIEW
LAST BUT NOT LEAST