Al Jadid


Volume 5, No. 26			(Winter 1999)
			Iraqi Intellectual Hadi al-Alawi Remembered
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	Features & Essays
	3.	The Hyphenated Author: Emerging Genre of "Arab-American Literature," by Lisa Suhair Majjaj
	4.	Mohammed Shukri's "The Plain Bread" is Target of Hostile Press, Academic Furor in Egypt, by Judith Gabriel
	6.	Are "Arabs" Fighting "Africans" in Sudan?, by William Young
	8.	The Tragedy of Heritage in the Age of Lebanon's Reconstruction, by Jad Thabet
	23.	Hadi al-Alawi: The Passing of an Intellectual Original, by Elie Chalala
	24.	The Many Definitions of a Translator, by Samuel Hazo
	26.	The Meteoric Stardom of Asmahan: Memory and Melody, by Sherifa Zuhur
	29.	Calligraphy Via Computer: Artist Mamoun Sakkal Adapts Tradition to Electronic Age
	32.	Mohammed Shukri's "The White Sparrow" and its Message, by Muhy Din Lazikani
	Reports
	13.	Predicament of Iraqi Intellectuals: Victims of Domestic Repression and Sanctions, by Mahmoud Said
	16.	Lebanon: Art and Refinement Throughout the Ages, by Brigitte Caland
	Book Reviews
	14.	War in the Gulf 1990-1991: The Iraqi-Kuwait Conflict and its Implications, by Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb Reviewed by Ayad al-Qazzaz
	18.	Beirut '75, by Ghadda Samman Reviewed by Kim Jensen Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman by Leila Abouzeid Reviewed by Silvia Ines Chelala
	19.	Damascus Gate, by Robert Stone Reviewed by Christopher McCabe
	20.	About Lebanese-Arabic Music and the Rahbani Theater Musicals by Nizar Mruweh Reviewed by Ibrahim al-Ariss
	21.	Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi Reviewed by Faisal Tbeileh
	31.	"Why Is it So Dark?" by Dominique Edd,
	Poetry
	12.	"Tear-drop to Hafiz Shirazi," by Abdul Wahab al-Bayyati
	31.	"The Stranger," "Protest," by Amal al-Jubburi
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