When in the Arab World
Author: Rana F.. Nejem
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781911195214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen in the Arab World is written from the inside for anyone who wants to live or work with Arab culture.
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The Cultural Heritage of Arabs, Islam, and the Middle East
Author: William G. Baker
Publisher: Brown Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides first-hand, solid information about who Arabs are, how they interact within Arab society, their mores, customs, habits, cultural obligations, and taboos. This is a must-read for Americans in the post-September 11 era to understand Arab perceptions of Americans, what they find positive and admirable about the West, and what they find offensive and unacceptable. Book jacket.
Arab Women's Lives Retold
Author: Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2007-10-18
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780815631477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. The collection goes well beyond dismantling standard notions of Arab female subservience, exploring the many ways Arab women writers have learned to speak to each other, to their readers, and to the world at large. Drawing from a rich body of literature, the essays attest to the surprisingly lively and committed roles Arab women play in varied geographic regions, at home and abroad. These recent writings assess how the interplay between individual, private, ethnic identity and the collective, public, global world of politics has impacted Arab women’s rights.
An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture (First Edition)
Author: Bassam K. Frangieh
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781516526307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Introduction to Modern Arab Culture exposes readers to fundamental characteristics of the Arab people, their culture, and their society. Over the course of 13 chapters, readers learn about the emergence and influence of Islam in Arab culture, religious and ethnic minorities within the Arab world, the critical role of family in Arab life, and the origin and evolution of the Arabic language. Dedicated chapters provide an introduction to the religion of Islam and the Qur'an, and an exploration of Islamic communities throughout the ages. Additional chapters explore Arab poetry, literature, music, values, and thought, revealing the impact of major artworks and their creators on Arab life and tradition. The final chapters address the Arab Spring, the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, and contemporary challenges and opportunities. An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture introduces readers to aspects of Arab culture while demonstrating how these facets intertwine to create a unique tapestry of identity, experience, and history. The book is well suited to courses in Middle East culture and history, politics, thought, literature, religion, and language, and courses in sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands
Author: Konrad Hirschler
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0748654216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2012 BRISMES book prize. How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of documentary, narrative and normative sources, Konrad Hirschler explores the growth of reading audiences in a pre-print culture.The uses of the written word grew significantly in Egypt and Syria between the 11th and the 15th centuries, and more groups within society started to participate in individual and communal reading acts. New audiences in reading sessions, school curricula, increasing numbers of endowed libraries and the appearance of popular written literature all bear witness to the profound transformation of cultural practices and their social contexts.
Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States
Author: Alanoud Alsharekh
Publisher: Saqi
Published: 2012-07-15
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0863568629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning its increasingly self-confident national identities. This volume explores the new dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression, and their relationships with political authority. Contributors include figures instrumental to the emergence of these new identities, including artists, broadcasters and cultural commentators.
Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
Author: Christiane Gruber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-07-17
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0253008948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays examining the role and power of images from a wide variety of media in today’s Middle Eastern societies. This timely book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images “speak” and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East addresses aspects of the visual in the Islamic world, including the presentation of Islam on television; on the internet and other digital media; in banners, posters, murals, and graffiti; and in the satirical press, cartoons, and children’s books. “This volume takes a new approach to the subject . . . and will be an important contribution to our knowledge in this area. . . . It is comprehensive and well-structured with fascinating material and analysis.” —Peter Chelkowski, New York University “An innovative volume analyzing and instantiating the visual culture of a variety of Muslim societies [which] constitutes a substantially new object of study in the regional literature and one that creates productive links with history, anthropology, political science, art history, media studies, and urban studies, as well as area studies and Islamic studies.” —Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford
Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures
Author: Abdulla M. Lutfiyya
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 753
ISBN-13: 3110815745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeauty in Arabic Culture
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558761995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA specialist in Islamic architecture and social history, Behrens-Abouseif (U. of Munich) surveys the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classical Arabic culture through the 15th century CE, drawing on Arabic texts in philosophy, theology, mysticism, poetry, literary criticism, historiography, and the Thousand and One Nights. She shows how beauty was measured by the degree of pleasure it elicited in the recipient. The original German Schonheit in der Arabischen Kultur was published by C. D. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, in 1998. Paper edition (199-3), $22.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Simple Gestures
Author: Andrea B. Rugh
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1597975923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverturns common misperceptions about the lives of Middle Easterners.
