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  • Alternative Iran

    Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

    by Pamela Karimi ...
    Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, political, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's creative class toward increasingly original forms of artmaking not meant for official venues. Instead, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran

    Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

    by Pamela Karimi ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Examining Iran’s recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres.On the cusp of Iran’s entry into modernity, the rules and tenets that had traditionally defined the Iranian home began to vanish and the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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    Cultural Capital of Europe?

    Edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula

    by Karen Exell ...
    Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula is dedicated to the recent and rapid high-profile development of museums in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the a number of the Arabian Peninsula states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and theUAE. These Gulf states are dynamically involved in the establishment of museums to preserve and , represent their distinct national culture and heritage, as ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Cosmopolitan Radicalism

    The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties

    by Zeina Maasri ...
    Series Book 13 - The Global Middle East
    Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Against a celebratory reminiscence of the 'golden years', Beirut's long 1960s is conceived of as a liminal ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Young and Defiant in Tehran

    by Shahram Khosravi ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution, and as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized consumers who constitute a threat to the society. Much of the focus of the Islamic regime has been on ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Iranian Art

    From the Street to the Studio

    by Talinn Grigor ...
    The art world has recently witnessed a surge of interest in contemporary Iranian art, but what is the background to Iran's vibrant art scene? This is the first comprehensive book on Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution. Divided into three parts – street, studio and exile – it covers official art sponsored by the Islamic Republic, the culture of avant-garde art created in the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Preserving the Old City of Damascus

    by Faedah Totah ...
    In Preserving the Old City of Damascus, Totah examines the recentgentrification of the historic urban core of the Syrian capital and the waysin which urban space becomes the site for negotiating new economic andsocial realities. The book illustrates how long-term inhabitants of the historicquarter, developers, and government officials offer at times competinginterpretations of urban space and its ... Read more

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  • Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah

    The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran

    Edited by Bianca Devos, Christoph Werner ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the 1920s and 1930s in Iran, when, under the rule of Reza Shah ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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    by Iftikhar Dadi ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments.Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond. He looks ... Read more

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  • The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States

    by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman ...
    Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD