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Arab society and culture: an essential reader
Publisher
Saqi
Publication Date
c2009
Language
English
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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. Hüzün / 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 : Shahrazâd / 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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