Al-Mashriq
Volume
3, Number 12
March 2005
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
LETTER FROM ABROAD
POLITICS:
Landscape Memory and the Israeli Erasure
of pre-48 Palestine
Theo Tsalamandris
Sectarianism: How to Beat the Problem
Dr. Adel Beshara
The Assassination of Hariri
Ramzi Baroud
Can Syria Keep its Islamist Genie
in the Bottle?
Ibrahim Hamidi
RELIGIO-POLITICS
The Heresy of Christian Zionism
Stephen Ziser
Imagine: A World Without Israel
Jihad Al-Khazen
LITERATURE
Syrian Intellectual Disputes in 19thC Egypt
Dr. Yunan Labib Rizq
Dr. Khalil Sa'adeh: A Nationalist Crusader
Dr. Adel Beshara
The Art of Storytelling in Syria
Andrea Rugh
The Last Hakawati
Barbara Nimri Aziz
RELIGION
Hindiyya and Her Spiritual Journey
Avril M. Makhlouf
Hindiyya: Fact or Fiction
Henry Harris Jessup
MUSIC
Arab Music: Unifier of Thought and Sentiment
Prof. A. J. Racy
The Rababah
Kevin Holmes
OBITUARY
The Passing of Hisham Sharabi
Dr. Adel Beshara
ARCHAEOLOGY
Baalbek: Where Time Stands Still
Joanne Farchakh
Damascus
Mark Twain
BOOK REVIEWS
IN BLACK AND WHITE