Al-Mashriq
Volume
4, Number 15
December 2005
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
LETTER FROM ABROAD
POLITICS:
Defying the Hegemon: Syria, the US and the Iraq War
Dr. Raymond Hinnebusch
Invasion and Occupation Through Iraqi Eyes
George Capaccio
Lebanon: Truth Postponed
Hisham Safieddine
Stereotyping the 'Middler East'
Dr. Tawfic al-Masri
POLITICAL HISTORY
Talal: The Sad Story of the King of Jordan
Dr. Sami Moubayed
LITERATURE
The Syriac Impact on Arabic Literature
R. Y. Ebeid
Sa'adeh's Impact on Literature, Music and the Arts
Dr. Edmond Melhem
Religion and State in Kawakibi's Thought
Eliezer Tauber
HISTORY
The Orange and the 'Cross in the Crescent':
Imagining Palestine in 1929
Dr. Tamir Sorek
SYRIA-OLOGY
What is Syria?
Al-Mashriq
Syria: Land of Civilizations
J. Maxwell Miller
Remembering the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Elisa Reina and G. Andrea
BOOKS
Misusing Anti-Semitism, Abusing History
Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein
Contending Theories of International Relations:
A Review
Dr. Paul Salem
POETRY
BLACK AND WHITE