Arab Society and Culture

Arab Society and Culture

Author: Samir Khalaf

Publisher: Saqi Books - Saqi Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780863566165

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Essential reading for Middle Eastern studies students and anyone interested in Middle Eastern literature and culture.


Arab Society

Arab Society

Author: Nicholas S. Hopkins

Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9789774244049

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This all-new edition of the classic Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives, containing thirty new articles by leading scholars, examines Arab society in the 1990s. Articles by scholars from many countries explore such subjects as Arab unity and identity; demographic processes; the roles of men, women, and family; rural social change; political developments; and religious change. For students, scholars, and general readers alike, Arab Society offers up-to-date analysis and discussion of the social, political, and economic transformations that face the region today.


The Arab World

The Arab World

Author: Halim Barakat

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-10-14

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780520914421

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This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century. The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world.


Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World

Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World

Author: M. Amara

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-11-24

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0230359507

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This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and international relations in post-colonial context.


Making the Arab World

Making the Arab World

Author: Fawaz A. Gerges

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 069119646X

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Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, this edition is essential for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.


Inside the Arab World

Inside the Arab World

Author: Michael Field

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780674455214

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Comprehensive survey of the Arab world.


Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Author: Dimitri Gutas

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780415061322

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With the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the end of the tenth century, almost all scientific and philosophical secular Greek works that were available in late antiquity had been translated into Arabic. This book explores the social, political and ideological factors operative in early 'Abbasid society that sustained the translation movement.


Arab Resources

Arab Resources

Author: I. Ibrahim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317244702

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The modern Arab world is faced with a serious problem in the imbalance between human and natural resources. The Gulf states, with their vast natural resources, are poor in human resources, whereas in Egypt or Jordan the picture is reversed. This study, first published in 1983, considers the range of factors affecting development in the Arab world and examines the broad sectoral resources, the infrastructure for resource development and the range of problems shaping the political economy of Arab advancement. In conclusion, an analysis is made of the existing trends in the transformation of Arab society and ways are suggested in which these trends will develop over the next decade.


Arab-American Faces and Voices

Arab-American Faces and Voices

Author: Elizabeth Boosahda

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0292783132

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As Arab Americans seek to claim their communal identity and rightful place in American society at a time of heightened tension between the United States and the Middle East, an understanding look back at more than one hundred years of the Arab-American community is especially timely. In this book, Elizabeth Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the Americas between 1880 and 1915, and their descendants. Boosahda focuses on the Arab-American community in Worcester, Massachusetts, a major northeastern center for Arab immigration, and Worcester's links to and similarities with Arab-American communities throughout North and South America. Using the voices of Arab immigrants and their families, she explores their entire experience, from emigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the present-day lives of their descendants. This rich documentation sheds light on many aspects of Arab-American life, including the Arab entrepreneurial motivation and success, family life, education, religious and community organizations, and the role of women in initiating immigration and the economic success they achieved.