''Arab Studies Quarterly'' (''ASQ'') is an English-language academic journal devoted to Arabist studies. It was established in 1979 by the late Professors
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White ...
and
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod ( ar, إبراهيم أبو لغد, February 15, 1929 – May 23, 2001) was a Palestinian (later American) academic, characterised by Edward Said as "Palestine's foremost academic and intellectual"Said 2001 and by Rashid Khalid ...
. They envisioned the journal to be a platform for academic research to counter anti-Arab propaganda veiled by academic jargon. Since its inception, ''ASQ'' has been a refereed academic journal that publishes articles on the Arabs, their history and social and political institutions.
Articles appearing in this journal are indexed in the PAIS Bulletin and are annotated and indexed in Historical Abstracts; International Political Science Abstracts; America: History and Life; Political Science Abstracts; Periodica Islamica, and Index of Islamic Literature.
The current editor of the journal is Ibrahim Aoude of the
University of Hawaii
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.
See also
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Samih Farsoun Samih K. Farsoun, (1937 in Haifa, Palestine – June 9, 2005) was a professor emeritus of sociology at American University, where he taught for thirty years until his retirement in 2003. He graduated from Hamilton College in New York. He received ...
, president of the Association of Arab American University Graduates
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Journal of Palestine Studies
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Jerusalem Quarterly
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Jamal Nassar, ''ASQ'' editor, 1991–95
References
External links
''Arab Studies Quarterly'' (print: ; online: ).
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issuesof Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ).
articles "Most Recent Articles from Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)".
Middle Eastern studies in the United States
Publications established in 1979
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Middle Eastern studies journals
Arab studies
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