Al-Mashriq
Volume
4, Number 13
June 2005
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
LETTER FROM ABROAD
POLITICS:
THE BALFOUR DECLARATION:
Its Pivotal Role in the Palestine Disaster
The Balfour Declaration: Distorted Language
and Devastated Lives
Christopher Vasillopulos
The Balfour Declaration Reconsidered: The Cult
of the Jealous God
J. A. Miller
The Balfour Declaration: A History of Perfidy
and Betrayal in the Middle East
Dr. Robert John
The Possible Passages to Democracy in Egypt
Dr. Hassan Nafaa
HISTORY
Imperial Politics and Feisal's Arab Government
in Syria, 1918-1920
Murat Abus
The Battle of Maysalun
Dr. Adel Beshara
LITERATURE
Haykal's Response to Sa'udi Arabia and the Hajj
Dr. Dennis Walker
The Personal Papers of Al-Sanhuri
Mona Anis
MEDIA
Ways of Thinking: The Media, Orientalism and
Literature in Translation
Michael Hall
HISTORICAL RELIGION
The Monastry of the Syrians in Wadi al-Natrun
Jimmy Dunn
The Syrian Orthodox in Turkey: Witness
to an Intense Spirituality
Egidio Picucci
ARCHAEOLOGY
Petra: The Rose-Red Capital of a Forgotten People
J. Reweck and T. S. Akasheh
ANTHROPOLOGY
Tales from Fertile Crescent History
Dr. Adel Beshara
The Costumes of Syrian Phoenicia
Sarah Khayyat
Hunno's Circumnavigation of Africa
Dr. Richard Quirk
POETRY
Ugaritic Narrative Poetry
Edward L. Greenstein
The Conference of the Birds
Paul Dolphin
BOOK REVIEW
IN BLACK AND WHITE