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Anti-Palestinianism
Av Saree Makdisi, Ussama Makdisi
Inbunden, 2027
125 kr
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An urgent and revelatory primer on the widespread racism against Palestinians in the Western world – where it comes from and whose interests it servesOver the course of the twentieth century, the Western imperial powers which had spent a hundred years pursuing violent colonial projects around the …
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
Av Ussama Makdisi, Paul A. Silverstein
Häftad, 2006
304 kr
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". . . constitutes an important and much needed intervention on the themes of memory and violence in Middle East studies." —Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa BarbaraThe Middle East and North Africa form a region united by a common history of armed conflict and repeated international …
Culture of Sectarianism
Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
Häftad, 2000
281 kr
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Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of …
Age of Coexistence
The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
Inbunden, 2019
264 kr
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"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."—Robert Fisk, The Independent Today’s headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama …
Age of Coexistence
The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
Häftad, 2021
330 kr
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"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."—Robert Fisk, The IndependentToday's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama …
Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Inbunden, 2008
765 kr
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The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American …
Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Häftad, 2009
234 kr
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The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American …
Anti-Palestinianism
Av Ussama Makdisi, Saree Makdisi
Inbunden, 2027
257 kr
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For decades, the voices of Palestinians and those who advocate for Palestinian rights have been stifled—if not outright silenced—in the United States, according to scholars Ussama Makdisi and Saree Makdisi. More recently, activists have been arrested by federal agents merely for writing op-eds, …
Faith Misplaced
The Broken Promise of U.S.- Arab Relations: 1820-2001
Häftad, 2011
242 kr
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The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the nineteenth century as a favourable exchange of cultural understanding and economic opportunity deteriorated with America's increasing interest in oil, and …
