Arab Society and Culture
Arab Society and Culture

Author: Samīr Halaf

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780863564857

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Arab Society and Culture provides wide-ranging essays and supplementary readings that examine recent social and cultural change in Arab societies. From investigations of consumerism and Islam on the Internet to changing attitudes toward sex, gender, and homosexuality, this collection challenges stereotypes and assesses the impact of increasingly global and mobile lifestyles on family structure, public space, and private life. Emphasis is placed on how local cultures are adapting to global and postmodern transformations. Samples are taken from a wide range of writings on the Middle East, including essays by Orhan Pamuk, Bertrand Russell, Edward Said, Amin Maalouf, and Nawal El Saadawi. Many of the contributors have US academic posts and affiliations.

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 Cultural Studies
Arab Cultural Studies

Author: Anastasia Valassopoulos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1317981049

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This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and the contributors to this innovative collection showcase the tremendous cultural output emerging from the Arab world. They present sensitive, conceptual readings whilst remaining mindful of the place of this work within a wider framework that seeks to prevent isolationist readings of cultural phenomena. Making sense of the place of culture in the Arab world, and agreeing upon a broadly recognisable and commonly accepted set of terms within which to discuss this output, is a new and urgent challenge. Arab Cultural Studies aspires to understand, communicate and theorise these forms. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

Israel in the Middle East
Israel in the Middle East

Author: Itamar Rabinovich

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 9780874519624

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An anthology of the most important documents on the domestic and foreign policy of the modern state of Israel, in relation to the rest of the Middle East

Culture and Crisis in the Arab World
Culture and Crisis in the Arab World

Author: Richard Jacquemond

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1786726327

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Since 2011, the art of the Arab uprisings has been the subject of much scholarly and popular attention. Yet the role of artists, writers and filmmakers themselves as social actors working under extraordinary conditions has been relatively neglected. Drawing on critical readings of Bourdieu's Field Theory, this book explores the production of culture in Arab social spaces in 'crisis'. In ten case studies, contributors examine a wide range of countries and conflicts, from Algeria to the Arab countries of the Gulf. They discuss among other things the impact of Western public diplomacy organisations on the arts scene in post-revolutionary Cairo and the consequences of dwindling state support for literary production in Yemen. Providing a valuable source of empirical data for researchers, the book breaks new ground in adapting Bourdieu's theory to the particularities of cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa.