Al-Mashriq

Volume 3, Number 9

June 2004

 

CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

EDITORIAL
QUARTER BY QUARTER
VERBATIM

 

POLITICS:

Right of Return

Introduction

Dr. Adel Beshara

Right of Return and International Law

Abdul-Ilah As-Saadi

The Right of Return: Two-State Solution

Sells Palestine Short

Prof. George Bisharat

With Impunity

Oussama El-Mohtar

War and Peace in Lebanon: The Anguish

of Memory

Sune Haugbolle

Was Israel Responsible for the Lebanese

Civil War

 

FEATURE

A Week in the Life of Baghdad

Anita Roddik

 

LAW

Judicial Independence in the Arab World

Dr. Adel Omar Sherif & Dr. Nathan J. Brown

 

INTELLECTUALISM

Gibran's Self and Other Through Mythology

Mitri Boulos

Between Antun Sa'adeh and Sa'id 'Aql

Dr. Dennis Walker

 

Al-MAHJAR

Children of Al-Mahjar: Arab American Literature

Spans a Century

Elmaz Abinader

Carrying the Past: The Syrio-Lebanese

Emigration to Brazil

Ernesto Capello

The Syrian Peddlers

G. Bryan McKay

 

HISTORY

The Grandeur of Syria's Coastline

Compiled by Dr. Adel Beshara

What Makes Hannibal Heroic

Adil T. Baguirov

 

TRIBUTE

Zaki Nassif: The Master is Dead

Dr. Adel Beshara

 

BOOK and OTHER REVIEWS

POEM
LAST BUT NOT LEAST