Cultural Encounters in the Arab World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Encounters in the Arab World write by Tarik Sabry. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Cultural Encounters in the Arab World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought with the 'modern' in Arab lived experience. In bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, Sabry is offering fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world today.
American Studies Encounters the Middle East
American Studies Encounters the Middle East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Studies Encounters the Middle East write by Alex Lubin. This book was released on 2016-08-24. American Studies Encounters the Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the field of American studies, attention is shifting to the long history of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, especially in the aftermath of war in Iraq and in the context of recent Arab uprisings in protest against economic inequality, social discrimination, and political repression. Here, Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy curate a new collection of essays that focuses on the cultural politics of America's entanglement with the Middle East and North Africa, making a crucial intervention in the growing subfield of transnational American studies. Featuring a diverse list of contributors from the United States, the Arab world, and beyond, American Studies Encounters the Middle East analyzes Arab-American relations by looking at the War on Terror, pop culture, and the influence of the American hegemony in a time of revolution. Contributors include Christina Moreno Almeida, Ashley Dawson, Brian T. Edwards, Waleed Hazbun, Craig Jones, Osamah Khalil, Mounira Soliman, Helga Tawil-Souri, Judith E. Tucker, Adam John Waterman, and Rayya El Zein.
Epic Encounters
Epic Encounters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epic Encounters write by Melani McAlister. This book was released on 2005-07-05. Epic Encounters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire," considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since—to paraphrase her new preface—we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.
Arab Rediscovery of Europe
Arab Rediscovery of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arab Rediscovery of Europe write by Ibrahim A. Abu-Lughod. This book was released on 1963. Arab Rediscovery of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arab Cultural Studies
Arab Cultural Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arab Cultural Studies write by Tarik Sabry. This book was released on 2011-11-30. Arab Cultural Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field' is the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualising and theorising the nascent field of Arab Cultural Studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more. The book presents a meta-narrative about how scholars have thus far thought and re-thought the field. It brings together prominent and emerging experts, writing from both Arab and Western academia, to engage with key complex, epistemic and methodological questions and to articulate in the meantime the new kinds of language and hermeneutics necessary for the appropriation of an historically conscious and coherent field of scientific enquiry into contemporary Arab media, culture and society.
