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Reason
March 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
In Praise of Vulgarity How commercial culture liberates Islam -- and the West...   |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Kerry Capell |
The Arab World Wants Its MTV U.S. media giant Viacom aims to deliver MTV to the Arab world, as well as Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and more. |
Reason
June 2005
Charles Paul Freund |
Beyond Arabism Music videos and Lebanese revolution: While not necessarily opposed to an Arabist identity, Lebanonism has long been an irritant to those Arab nationalists who seek to subsume the Mideast's different cultures into a single political/historical narrative. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Harvey, Sullivan & Groves |
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat The United States must understand the implications of its leadership in the global system, and how to use this position to demonstrate to moderates in the Islamic world why they should join us rather than attempt to beat us. |
Wired
July 2004
Lee Smith |
The Road to Tech Mecca Open markets and oil, satellite nets and Islam. Welcome to the city-state of Dubai, the new media capital of the Middle East. |
ifeminists
March 25, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Laying Down 'the White Woman's Burden' The most recent stereotype to bombard the American psyche is of the Muslim woman who lives veiled and in fear of all men who, by virtue of their maleness, are her oppressors. But is it true in general of Arab-Muslim women who have become the focus of world attention? |
Reason
December 2003
Michael Young |
Orient Obsess Douglas Little takes a lackluster look at Americans abroad in American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945. |
Parameters
Spring 2005
Christopher Henzel |
The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for US Strategy If American strategists fail to understand and exploit the divide between the establishments and the revolutionaries within Sunni Islam, the United States will play into the radicals' hands, and turn fence-sitting Sunnis into enemies. |
Reason
November 2003
Charles Paul Freund |
Arabian Idol: Reality TV tames nationalism A different sort of conflict broke out this summer in the Middle East -- one involving reality TV. While it offers more evidence that the region is in the grip of a liberationist pop culture frenzy, it also demonstrates that even the region's pop fandom can fall prey to divisiveness. |
Parameters
November 2004
Philip Seib |
The News Media and the "Clash of Civilizations" "For the first time in history, global politics is both multipolar and multicivilizational." As the balance of power among civilizations shifts, the relative influence of the West is declining. |
Salon.com
May 13, 2002
Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
Reason
December 2004
Charles Paul Freund |
Severed Heads Arab literary fantasy and terrible reality: Mohammed Barrada's intentionally disturbing tale "The Story of the Severed Head." |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Chris Zambelis |
The Strategic Implications of Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Middle East Promoting democracy in the Middle East will mark a positive shift in American foreign policy if and when Washington decides to back up its rhetoric with action. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Why the U.S. is losing the propaganda war Foolish decisions, nervous allies and not enough Arabic speakers mean Muslims around the world aren't getting America's side of the story. |
Salon.com
September 4, 2002
Carina Chocano |
Arab-Americans, one year later A new PBS documentary delicately explores the lives of "100 percent American, 100 percent Arab" citizens, who find themselves permanent outsiders in a season of war. |
Parameters
Spring 2007
Dale C. Eikmeier |
Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism If we are to know our enemy in the war on terrorism we must first recognize that regardless of the vintage or variety of militant Islam it is the "ideology" of the group or sect that serves as its center of gravity. |
Reason
June 2006 |
Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq... |
Salon.com
October 30, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
A Jew in the mosque A self-described "average Israeli" talks about his daring journey to pray with the Holy Land's Muslims and Christians -- and why Arafat cannot head a Palestinian state... |
Military History
O'Brien Browne |
The Enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia T.E. Lawrence turned Arab Bedouin tribes into a powerful guerrilla army against the Turks, then fought to get them justice from Britain. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Suspicious minds Many Arab rulers would like to support the Western war on Osama bin Laden. But their subjects disagree, and have a laundry list of reasons why... |
Parameters
Summer 2004
P. W. Singer |
The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture In the fight against terrorism, are we deterring more terrorists than are being trained for the future? Are we spending so much money trying to capture them, that we're really getting behind? |
Salon.com
January 8, 2002
George Rafael |
A is for Arabs From algebra and coffee to guitars, optics and universities -- an alphabetical reminder of what the West owes to the People of the Crescent Moon... |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007 |
They're Muslims, And Yankees, Too A book examines the duality of Muslim-American life. |
Military History Quarterly
Summer 2007
Richard A. Gabriel |
The Warrior Prophet If Muhammad had not been an innovative and accomplished military leader, Islam might not have survived the seventh century. |
