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"Why do countries celebrate defining religious moments or significant events in their history, and how and why do their leaders select certain events for commemoration and not others? This book is the first systematic study of the role of celebrations and public holidays in the …
Main Description: By the end of World War II, strategists in Washington and London looked ahead to a new era in which the United States shouldered global responsibilities and Britain concentrated its regional interests more narrowly. The two powers also viewed the Muslim world t…
In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers…
Womanpower: the Arab debate on women at work
by Hijab, Nadia
fromCambridge Middle East library
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A comparative analysis of the interacting influences of politics and religion in shaping liberal democratic development in five Middle Eastern countries.
"A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East."
"A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East."
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Offers critical perspectives on the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical goals…
Introduction -- Productive traumas: cinema, social conflict, cultural memory -- Colonialism, memory, masculinity: The four feathers and the redemption of empire -- Freedom, then silence: memory and the women of Egyptian and Tunisian independence -- The time that is lost: cinemat…
