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  • Ex-Centric Migrations

    Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music

    "Plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration." — Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial StudiesEx-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and ... Leer más

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  • A Society of Young Women

    Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

    The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society is male society. Little consideration has been given to the rapidly evolving activities within women's ... Leer más

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  • The Diasporic Condition

    Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World

    de Ghassan Hage ...
    Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory.In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage engages with the diasporic Lebanese community as a shared lifeworld, defining a common cultural milieu that transcends spatial and temporal ... Leer más

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  • In the Wake of the Poetic

    Palestinian Artists After Darwish

    de Najat Rahman ...
    Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense ... Leer más

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  • Colonising Egypt

    With a new preface

    Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. ... Leer más

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  • Among the Jasmine Trees

    Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria

    How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in ... Leer más

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  • Reading the Islamic City

    Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah ... Leer más

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  • Veiling in Africa

    Edición de Elisha P. Renne ...
    "This volume examines the complex histories, politics, and experiences of wearing Islamic dress in sub-Saharan Africa." —Heather Marie Akou, Indiana University BloomingtonThe tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a thousand years. These lively essays raise questions ... Leer más

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  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Leer más

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  • Sexagon

    Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture

    Honorable Mention, Association for Middle East Women’s StudiesHonorable Mention, 2018 Arab American Book Awards (Non-Fiction)In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, ... Leer más

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  • Men and Popular Music in Algeria

    The Social Significance of Raï

    Series series CMES Modern Middle East Series
    Raï music is often called the voice of the voiceless in Algeria, a society currently swept by tragic conflict. Raï is the voice of Algerian men, young men caught between generations and classes, in political strife, and in economic inequality. In a ground-breaking study, anthropologist Marc Schade-Poulsen uses this popular music genre as a lens through which he views Algerian society, particularly ... Leer más

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  • Cosmopolitan Radicalism

    The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties

    de Zeina Maasri ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

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