Al-Mashriq
Volume
2, Number 8
March 2004
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM
POLITICS:
Zionism's "Security Wall": A Special Report
The Violence of Construction: Israel's Wall
and International Law
Michael Kearney
The WALL
Anne Gwynne
Taif Revisited: Confessional Appetites and Taif
in Post-War Lebanon
Nawaf Salam
SPECIAL FEATURE
Celebrating the Vision: Antun Sa'adeh (1904-2004)
Dr. Adel Beshara
Sa'adeh and Syrian Nationalism
Dr. Rabih Debs
Sa'adeh and Literature
Dr. Edmond Melhem
Sa'adeh and the SSNP
Oussama el-Mohtar
Sa'adeh and Lebanon
Dr. Adel Beshara
Sa'adeh's Impact on Fairuz and the Rahbani Music
Nour Shammas
Sa'adeh's Death and Plato's Dialogue Phaedo
Compiled by Dr. Adel Beshara
Antun Sa'adeh: Testimonies
Compiled by Dr. Adel Beshara
POLITICAL THOUGHT
Trends in Arab Intellectual Thought in the 1960s
Dr. Adel Daher
Islam and the Arab West's Commitment
to Africanism
Dr. Dennis Walker
HISTORY
The Rise and Fall of Al-Urwa al-Wuthqa
Ahmad Hassoun
ANTHROPOLOGY
Palestine's Neglected Treasure Trove
Laila Haddad
SYRIAN MYTHOLOGY
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Maureen Kovacs
BOOK REVIEWS
LAST BUT NOT LEAST