Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
84 produkter
Palestinian Music and Song
Expression and Resistance Since 1900
Av Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsén m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
877 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Drawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the millions of Palestinians in diaspora offers a unique window on cultural and political events of the past century. From the perspective of scholars, …
Sonic Relations
Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands
Häftad, 2026
461 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Sonic Relations explores how sound shapes religious life and community among Twelver Shi'i Muslims in eastern Turkey and beyond, examining the powerful role of devotional recitation in cultivating relationships not only among people, but also with the unseen. These sonic practices are central to …
Saharan Frontiers
Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa
Av James McDougall, Judith Scheele
Inbunden, 2012
927 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's …
Saharan Frontiers
Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa
Av James McDougall, Judith Scheele
Häftad, 2012
341 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's …
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Into the New Millennium
Av Sherine Hafez, Susan Slyomovics
Inbunden, 2013
965 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the …
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Into the New Millennium
Av Sherine Hafez, Susan Slyomovics
Häftad, 2013
328 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the …
Encountering Morocco
Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding
Av David Crawford, Rachel Newcomb
Häftad, 2013
300 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to …
Arab Revolts
Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East
Av David McMurray, Amanda Ufheil-Somers
Inbunden, 2013
935 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways of oppressing their …
Arab Revolts
Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East
Av David McMurray, Amanda Ufheil-Somers
Häftad, 2013
309 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways of oppressing their …
Moroccan Noir
Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2013
908 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular …
Moroccan Noir
Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
Häftad, 2013
328 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular …
Moroccan Noir
Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
E-bok, 2013
116 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular …
Palestinian Music and Song
Expression and Resistance Since 1900
Av Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsén m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
294 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Drawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the millions of Palestinians in diaspora offers a unique window on cultural and political events of the past century. From the perspective of scholars, …
Calls of Islam
Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
Inbunden, 2013
900 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once–marginal Sufi practices …
Calls of Islam
Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
Häftad, 2013
328 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once–marginal Sufi practices …
Middle East and Brazil
Perspectives on the New Global South
Av Nadine Naber, Bassam Haddad m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
984 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by the rise of Brazil as a champion of the global south, mass mobilizations in the Arab world and South America, and the cultural renaissance of …
Middle East and Brazil
Perspectives on the New Global South
Av Nadine Naber, Bassam Haddad m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
338 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by the rise of Brazil as a champion of the global south, mass mobilizations in the Arab world and South America, and the cultural renaissance of …
Egypt in the Future Tense
Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence Before and After 2011
Inbunden, 2015
900 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of …
Egypt in the Future Tense
Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence Before and After 2011
Häftad, 2015
328 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of …
Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa
Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
Inbunden, 2015
900 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each …
Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa
Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
Häftad, 2015
328 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each …
Jaffa Shared and Shattered
Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
Inbunden, 2015
984 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel …
Jaffa Shared and Shattered
Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
Häftad, 2015
395 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel …
Jaffa Shared and Shattered
Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
E-bok, 2015
101 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel …
Pearl of Dari
Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran
Inbunden, 2015
1099 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the "Pearl of Dari" cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in …
Music and the Armenian Diaspora
Searching for Home in Exile
Inbunden, 2015
869 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: …
Performing Al-Andalus
Music and Nostalgia Across the Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2015
869 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian …
Pearl of Dari
Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the "Pearl of Dari" cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in …
Music and the Armenian Diaspora
Searching for Home in Exile
Häftad, 2015
280 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: …
Performing Al-Andalus
Music and Nostalgia Across the Mediterranean
Häftad, 2015
338 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian …
