Arab society and culture an essential reader
Material type: TextPublication details: London Saqi 2009ISBN:- 9780863566165
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OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library | General Books | 306.09174927 AR- (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 129737 |
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306.091724 FE-G Great degeneration how institutions decay and economies die | 306.091724 FE-G Great degeneration how institutions decay and economies die | 306.091724 SO- Social values and development Asian perspectives | 306.09174927 AR- Arab society and culture an essential reader | 306.092 ED- Edward Said and the literary, social, and political world | 306.092 PA-S Simon Leys: navigator between worlds / | 306.092 SY- Symbolic forms and cultural studies Ernst Cassirer's theory of culture |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Promises of the sociological and literary imagination. My father's suitcase / Orhan Pamuk -- The promise / C. Wright Mills -- From The native's point of view : on the nature of anthropological understanding / Clifford Geertz -- Three malaises / Charles Taylor -- What I have lived for / Bertrand Russell -- 2. Cultural variations in everyday life. H�uz�un / Orhan Pamuk -- The veil becomes a movement / Fadwa El Guindi -- Women's community service in Beirut / Lara Deeb -- Growing up in Morocco / Susan Schaefer Davis -- 3. Negotiating identities in dissonant worlds. Between world / Edward Said -- Damaged identities and violence / Amin Maalouf -- Living between worlds / Roseanne Saad Khalaf -- Maghrebi youth : between alienation and integration / Mohamed Farid Azzi -- Saudi identity : negotiating between tradition and modernity / Mai Yamani -- 4. Behavioral departures and alternative lifestyles. Circumcision of girls in Egypt / Nawal El Saadawi -- A dishonorable affair : chastity and honor killing in Syria / Katherine Zoepf -- The commercialization of sexual outlets in Lebanon / Samir Khalaf -- Transition Beirut : gay identities, lived realities : the balancing act in the Middle East / Jared McCormick -- 5. The empowerment of marginalized groups. On root and routes : the reassertion of primordial loyalties / Samir Khalaf -- Maroc-hop : music and youth identities / Miriam Gazzah -- Between empowerment & paternalism / Egbert Harmsen -- 6. Gender revisited. Youth, gender, and the state in Cairo : marginalized masculinities and contested spaces / Salwa Ismail -- Consumption, display, and gender / Christa Salamandra -- Missed opportunities : me and my gender / Mai Ghoussoub -- 7. Shifting family patterns. Marriage, family, and household in Cairo / Homa Hoodfar -- Brother-sister relationships : connectivity, love, and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon / Suad Joseph -- Wives or daughters : structural differences between urban and Bedouin Lebanese co-wives / Najla S. Hamadeh -- 8. Religion and ritual. Immigrant children in Europe : constructing a transnational identity / Nadia Hashmi -- Karbala as sacred space among North American Shi'a / Vernon James Schubel -- Piety, privilege and Egyptian youth / Asef Bayat -- 9. The construction of space : local and global identities. Al-Dahiyya : sight, sound, and season / Lara Deeb -- Re-imagining the global : relocation and local identities in Cairo / Farha Ghannam -- The Bourj as cosmopolitan public sphere / Samir Khalaf -- "This is a Muslim house" : signs of difference in the African-American row house / Aminah Beverly McCloud -- 10. Eroticism, desire and sexual identity. Variations on eroticism : misogyny, mysticism and Mujun / Abdelwahab Bouhdiba -- Narration and desires : Shahraz�ad / Fedwwa Malti-Douglas -- Worlds apart : sexual life for women and men in Iraq, attitudes towards sex / Sana Al-Khayyat -- Breaking the silence : what AUB students really think about sex / Roseanne Saad Khalaf -- 11. Beyond expectations : the new media in the Arab world. Mass media in the Middle East : patterns of political & societal change / Kai Hafez -- The Arabic satellite news network : Al-Jazeera / Ahmed Abdalla -- The music video and Muslim piety : satellite television and Islamic pop culture in Egypt / Patricia Kubala -- 12. Focus on transnational Islam. To be a European Muslim / Traiq Ramadan -- Muslim migrants in Europe : between Euro-Islam and ghettoization / Bassam Tibi -- Travelling Islam : mosques without minarets / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Sexuality and the politics of the veil / Joan Scott.
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