Al-Mashriq

Volume 2, Number 5

June 2003

CONTENTS

The legacy of Sykes-Picot: National and

political crisis in the Fertile Crescent

The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)

Sharon's secret agenda

The British occupation of Iraq: As British

as afternoon tea

Too little too late! Straw blames imperialism

for Middle East woes

Islam and the Secular State: Explicating the.

universal in formative Islamic norms.

Reflections on the Coptic Question

Tarek Heggy

Bahrayni Intellectuals and the recreation of a

Gulf-centered national past and history.

The impact of the American Missionary on

Syria during the Eighteenth Century.

The Syrian Protestant College: The pinnacle of

missionary activity in Syria.

The discovery of the Pulmonary

Circulation revisited.

New discoveries in Syria confirm theory on spread

of early civilization.

The splendor of Bilad al-Sham: Qalaat Saladin

My Jerusalem