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By L. King-Irani

Dissemination of information and analyses within and beyond the scholarly community is a key priority for the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. The Center’s Multimedia, Research and Publications office publishes a prestigious Occasional Paper series featuring works by scholars, journalists, policy makers and field experts three to four times each year. This series now includes nearly 100 works covering a wide variety of subjects and perspectives on the Arab world. In addition, the series also includes transcripts of discussions among key players in the U.S. and the Arab world, such as Uncovered: Arab Journalists Scrutinize Their Profession, which features prominent Arab journalists’ analyses of press freedom and responsibility across the region. Forty of the Center's Occasional Papers are now online.

The following six Occasional Papers have just been added to the group available in PDF format, two of them, Talal Asad's The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam, and the late Hanna Batatu's The Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi Revolutions: Some Observations on Their Underlying Causes and Social Character, have been among the most popular and requested Occasional Papers over the last two decades.

• The Political Orientation of Islamic Philosophy, by Dr. Muhsin S. Mahdi (1982)
• The Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi Revolutions: Some Observations on Their Underlying Causes and Social Character, by Dr. Hanna Batatu (1983) *
• Religion and Political Development: Comparative Ideas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli, by Dr. Barbara Freyer Stowasser (1983)
• The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam, by Dr. Talal Asad (1986) *
• Militant Islamic Movements in Lebanon: Origins, Social Basis, and Ideology, by Dr. Marius Deeb (1986) *
• Rethinking Islam, by Dr. Mohammed Arkoun (1987) *

A complete list of links to other CCAS Occasional Papers is provided below.

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Occasional Papers:

• Rethinking the Roots of Modern Science: Arabic Manuscripts in European Libraries
• Health and Policymaking in the Arab Middle East
• Conflict in the Yemens and Superpower Involvement
• The Political Orientation of Islamic Philosophy
• Religion and Political Development: Some Comparative Ideas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli
• American Christianity, the Jewish State, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Religion and Political Development: Comparative Ideas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli
• Television and Middle East Diplomacy: President Carter's Fall 1977 Peace Initiative
• The Egyptian, Syrian, and Iraqi Revolutions: Some Observations of Their Underlying Causes and Social Character
• The Politics of National Reconciliation in the Sudan: The Numayri Regime and the National Front Opposition
• The Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi Revolutions: Some Observations on Their Underlying Causes and Social Character
• Protest Movements & Religious Undercurrents in Egypt
• The Middle East in the World Economy: A Long Range Historical View
• Militant Islamic Movements in Lebanon: Origins, Social Basis, and Ideology
• The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam
• Political Conflict and Economic Performance in Lebanon, 1975-86
• Rethinking Islam
• Back to the Fold? Egypt and the Arab World
• At a Critical Juncture: The US and the Palestinian People
• The Historical Formation of the Arab Nation
• The Arabs and the New Middle East: Synopsis of the 1994 CCAS Symposium
• Children's War Experiences: The Impact of the Iraqi Occupation on the Psychosocial Development of Children
• A Woman and Her Sufis
• Islam, Jerusalem and the West
• The US and the Challenge of Democratization in the Arab World
• Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy
• Rethinking the Roots of Modern Science: Arabic Manuscripts in European Libraries
• Opec in the 21st Century
• A Time to Reap: Thoughts on Calendars and Millennialism
• The Al-Aqsa Intifada: Causes and Implications for U.S Interests
• A View on Islamic Economic Thought
• The Search for Authenticity in Middle East Cultures: Religion, Community and Nation
• Imperialism, Globalization and Internationalism: Some Reflections on their Twin Impacts on the Arab Middle East in the Beginnings of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
• The US And Yemen: A Half-Century of Engagement
• Uncovered: Arab Journalists Scrutinize Their Profession
• Research Cultures in Local and Global Contexts: The Case of Middle East Gender Studies
• Theater and Radical Politics in Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria: 1860-1914
• A View from the Inside: Congressional Decisionmaking and Arab-Israeli Policy

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Occasional papers now available online