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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christa salamandra”
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  • Ten Arab Filmmakers

    Political Dissent and Social Critique

    by Christa Salamandra, Jonathan Smolin, Dalia Said Mostafa, Tim Kennedy, Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Viola Shafik, Benjamin Geer, Guy Austin, Will Higbee ...
    Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world—Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Middle Eastern Television Drama

    Politics, Aesthetics, Practices

    Edited by Christa Salamandra, Nour Halabi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media
    This monograph explores and investigates key issues facing Middle Eastern societies, including religion and sectarianism, history and collective memory, urban space and socioeconomic difference, policing and securitization, and gender relations.In the Middle East, television drama creators serve as public intellectuals who, with uncanny prescience, tell the world something. As this volume ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion

    by Max Weiss, Donatella Della Ratta, Shayna Silverstein, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Andreas Bandak, Thomas Pierret ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

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  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    by Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Egypt in the Future Tense

    Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011

    by Samuli Schielke ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended." — ChoiceAgainst the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arab Youth

    Social Mobilisation in Times of Risk

    Edited by Samir Khalaf, Roseanne Saad Khalaf ...
    In 2011, Arab youth took to the streets in their thousands to demand their freedom. Although it is too early to speculate on the ultimate outcome of the uprisings, one auspicious feature stands out: they reveal the genesis of a new generation sparked by the desire for civil liberties, advocacy for human rights, and participatory democracy. This unique volume explores some of the antecedents of the ... Read more

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  • Refugees of the Revolution

    Experiences of Palestinian Exile

    by Diana Allan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • On Shifting Ground

    Muslim Women in the Global Era

    Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone ...
    "Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad Girls of the Arab World

    Edited by Nadia Yaqub, Rula Quawas ...
    Women’s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled “bad” as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they impose new restrictions on women’s ... Read more

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  • Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World

    Edited by Abir Hamdar, Lindsey Moore ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world is defined, reflected, transmitted and contested in a variety of creative and other cultural forms. It covers a range of contexts of production and reception, from the early twentieth century to the present, and with reference to cultural production in and/or ... Read more

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