Al-Mashriq

Volume 4, Number 14

September 2005

 

CONTENTS

 

EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM

LETTER FROM ABROAD

 

POLITICS:

The American Way of Death

Azmi Beshara

Bridge-builder Glimpses Behind the Terror

Anne Fairbairn AM

US Policy-makers addicted to Love

and to Being Feared

David Ignatius

Don't Push Syria Away

Joshua Landis

Persuing the Persecutors

Ibrahim Nafie

 

LITERATURE

The God-man and the Antichrist between

Blake and Gibran

George N. El-Hage

Bitter Legacy:An Evaluation of Salem's 'Bitter Legacy

aginst Antun Sa'adeh

Dr. Adel Beshara

 

MYTHOLOGY

Awareness of the 'Master' in Ancient Syria

Georgie Can'an

 

MEMORIAM

Ghassan Kanafani: A Rebel Born in the

Womb of Despair

Nejme K. Habib

Khalid Alwan: Beirut Rebel

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HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Contesting 'Syria'

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Assyria nd Syria: Synonymous

Dr. Richard N. Frye

Assyria nd Syria: Synonymous?

Dr. John Joseph

 

FICTION

Kan yama kan

Hanadi Loubani

The death of my husband: A Short Story

Ghaleb H. Abu El-Faraj

 

BOOK REVIEW

POETRY

IN BLACK AND WHITE