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From Damascus to Beirut
Author | : Hazem Fadel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2016-02-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781443888530 |
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Notably, studies on the Arabic novel tend to focus on canonical writers, like the Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), and leave out or just mention en passant the work of others. This book is not concerned with the ways in which the Arabic novel breaks away from or reproduces Mahfouz’s approach and techniques, but focuses instead on the way in which the authors in question engage with the phenomena of nationalism, feminism, post- and neo-colonialism, civil war, and social change in the Arab world using an urban scenario as their privileged point of observation. The Arabic city is privileged as a focal point because it is the space where the struggles over issues of nation-building, gender, religion, and class, as well as the patriarchal, colonialist, Zionist, and sectarian violence linked to these issues, manifest themselves most evidently. To this end, From Damascus to Beirut: Contested Cities in Arab Writing brings together four novels published between 1969 and 1989, which have never been approached from this perspective nor put in this kind of dialogue before. Ulfat Idilbi’s Damascus, Ghassan Kanafani’s Haifa, Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Constantine, and Elias Khoury’s Beirut are social and historical products, and, as such, as Henri Lefebvre maintains, are deeply rooted in politics and affected by ideology. The cities discussed here, in fact, display the ebbs and flows of political and social life in their respective countries and in the Arab world in general. Each city stands at a crucial point in the history of the Arab world, and the way in which they are represented by their respective authors sets the stage for, and sometimes even foreshadows, an upcoming defeat or disappointment. Albeit for different reasons, Damascus, Haifa, Constantine and Beirut are all expressions of failures either on national, political, social, or economic levels. Paradoxically, however, they are also the repositories of their people’s hopes and aspirations, as well as of their disappointments. Analysing these novels as such, this book will be of particular interest to postcolonial readers and, more importantly, to English-speaking readers who are interested in the study of modern Arabic literature. Its close textual analysis offers the reader new tools not only for understanding themes and narrative techniques pertaining to the Arabic novel, but also the contemporary political, cultural and social issues that produced them.
Fin de Si cle Beirut
Author | : Jens Hanssen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199281637 |
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Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, Jens Hanssen argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space.
Beirut
Author | : Samir Kassir |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520256682 |
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Beirut is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. --from publisher description.
Queer Beirut
Author | : Sofian Merabet |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292760967 |
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Gender and sexual identity formation is an ongoing anthropological conversation in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies, but the story of gay and lesbian identity in the Middle East is only just beginning to be told. Queer Beirut is the first ethnographic study of queer lives in the Arab Middle East. Drawing on anthropology, urban studies, gender studies, queer studies, and sociocultural theory, Sofian Merabet's compelling ethnography suggests a critical theory of gender and religious identity formations that will disrupt conventional anthropological premises about the contingent role that society and particular urban spaces have in facilitating the emergence of various subcultures within the city. From 1995 to 2014, Merabet made a series of ethnographic journeys to Lebanon, during which he interviewed numerous gay men in Beirut. Through their life stories, Merabet crafts moving ethnographic narratives and explores how Lebanese gays inhabit and perform their gender as they formulate their sense of identity. He also examines the notion of "queer space" in Beirut and the role that this city, its class and sectarian structure, its colonial history, and religion have played in these people's discovery and exploration of their sexualities. In using Beirut as a microcosm for the complexities of homosexual relationships in contemporary Lebanon, Queer Beirut provides a critical standpoint from which to deepen our understandings of gender rights and citizenship in the structuring of social inequality within the larger context of the Middle East.
A History of the Druzes
Author | : Kais M Firro |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2023-12-14 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789004661783 |
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This book deals with the history of the Druze community using an interdisciplinary approach to describe, analyze, and explain historical events and processes.
The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World
Author | : Cyrus Schayegh |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674981102 |
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Cyrus Schayegh’s socio-spatial history traces how a Eurocentric world economy and European imperialism molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Building on this case, he shows that the making of the modern world is best seen as the reciprocal transformation of cities, regions, states, and global networks.
Reports from the Consuls of the United States varies Slightly
Author | : United States. Bureau of Manufactures |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
ISBN | : UOM:39015067314669 |
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House documents
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB11799725 |
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