Al-Mashriq
Volume
3, Number 11
December 2004
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
LETTER FROM ABROAD
POLITICS:
Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Very
Real Threat to Peace
John Steinbach
Israel: Fingers on all Buttons
Neil Sammonds
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Compiled by Dr. Adel Beshara
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
Arab Nationalism and Political Culture: The
Conflict of Minorities
Nicole Woods
Arab Nationalism: The Weightier Critique
of Antun Sa'adeh
Dr. Adel Beshara
LITERATURE
Syrian and Egyptian Particularist Thought: Continuity
with Paganism vs Monotheistic Religion
Dr. Dennis Walker
Gibran: The Craver for a Masterpiece
Dr. Rabeeh Al-Dibs
HISTORY
WWI: How an Englishman Kept Four
Thousand Syrians Alive
Margaret Mcgilvar
The Fatimids in Palestine: The Unwitting
Promoters of the Crusades
Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz
ARCHAEOLOGY
The Syrian Fertile Crescent: Oldest Civilization
Dr. Adel Beshara
Saint Moses in the Syrian Desert
Gabriel Saiad Reynolds
MISCELLANEOUS
The Eastern Influence in Harry Potter
Ahmed Shablool
The Olives of Palestine: A Personal Journey
Samia A. Halabi
BOOK REVIEW
POEM
LAST BUT NOT LEAST