Al-Mashriq
Volume
2, Number 7
December 2003
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
LETTER FROM ABROAD
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
A Note on Confessionalism:
Pluralism and Confessionalism in the Lebanon
Ahmad Beydoun
Real Sectarianism versus Real Citizenship
Mohammad Moussalli
Comparing Pluralisms: Minorities and Political
Participation in the Middle East
Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
Problems of Studying Minorities in the
Middle East
P. R. Kumaraswamy
CURRENT POLITICS
Palestine: How it all Started
Sami Hadawi
Palestine in Western Public Opinion
Promising Signs at Last!
Dr. Adel Beshara
Democracy in Iraq: "American Style:
Compiled by Dr. Adel Beshara
LITERATURE
Ameen Rihani Commemoration
Ameen Rihani's Path Between the Scylla of Fanaticism
and the Charybdis of Modernity
John C. Hawley
Ameen Rihani's Concept of Poetry: A Precursor
of Hadatha
Atif Faddoul
LECTURE
Antun Sa'adeh's "First Lecture"
Tr. Eveline Hitti
CREATIVE THOUGHT
Muslim Upbringing: A Complex Package of
Beliefs and Attitudes
Rana Kabbani
Voices from the Homeland
Aida Hasan
GEO-HISTORY
Maaloula: Star of Christendom
Carol Miller
APPRECIATION
BOOK REVIEW
LAST BUT NOT LEAST