The Contemporary Middle Eastern Scene

Author : Gustav Stein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3322971457
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Middle Eastern Scene written by Gustav Stein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume are based on papers read at an international confer ence held in Hamburg in May 1978. Some of them are reprinted in their original form, others have been slightly modified in order to incorporate more recent findings. Since the overall concern is Middle Eastern development the various contributions deal with a wide range of problems. Studies on the Middle East are more often than not one-sided because of the pre dominating interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the economic factors relating to the supply of oil. At the Hamburg Conference, however, the participants concentrated main lyon examining such aspects of the situation as are far too often relegated to the side lines. In order to illustrate what those neglected topics are one should refer to two major examples: 1) the religio-cultural identity of Arabs and Israelis, 2) the tackling of political issues in Arab and Israeli literature.

Author : Karima Laachir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415893372
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures written by Karima Laachir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even change the dominant political, social, economic, and cultural discourses and structures either consciously or unconsciously. The contributors do not claim that these cultural products constitute organized resistance movements, but rather that they reflect instances of defiance that stem from their peculiar contexts. If culture can be used to consolidate and perpetuate power relations in societies, it can also be used as the site of resistance to oppression in its various forms: gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, subverting existing dominant social and political hegemonies in the Middle East.

Author : Charlotte Bank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000067890
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria written by Charlotte Bank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the expanding contemporary art scene in Syria, particularly Damascus, during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The decade was characterized by a high degree of experimentation as young artists began to work with artistic media that were new in Syria, such as video, installation and performance art. They were rethinking the role of artists in society and looking for ways to reach audiences in a more direct manner and address socio-cultural and socio-political issues. The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria will be of interest to scholars of global and Middle Eastern art studies, and also to scholars interested in the recent social and cultural history of Syria and the wider Middle East.

Author : Ami Ayalon
Publisher : The Moshe Dayan Center
ISBN 13 : 9780813314495
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xiv: 1990 written by Ami Ayalon and published by The Moshe Dayan Center. This book was released on 1992-09-14 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual record of political developments in the Middle East is designed as a continuing, up-to-date reference for scholars, researchers and analysts, policy-makers, students and journalists. It examines in detail the rapidly-changing Middle-Eastern scene in all its complexity. This volume covers the eruption of the Gulf crisis and the war that had dramatic effects on all the countries of the Middle East.

Author : Itamar Rabinovich
Publisher : The Moshe Dayan Center
ISBN 13 : 9780813307640
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume X, 1986 written by Itamar Rabinovich and published by The Moshe Dayan Center. This book was released on 1988-11-24 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle East Contemporary Survey is an annual record and analysis of political, economic, military, and international developments in the Middle East. Designed to be an up-to-date reference, it examines the rapidly changing Middle Eastern scene in all its complexity.

Author : Lina Khatib
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712659
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filming the Modern Middle East written by Lina Khatib and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Filming the Modern Middle East' is the first comparative investigation of how modern American cinema and the cinemas of the Arab world represent Middle Eastern politics to their audiences. Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism, and covers films made in the USA, in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. She explores cinema's role as a tool of nationalism in the USA and the Arab world, and the challenges the Arab cinemas present to Hollywood's dominant representations of Middle Eastern politics. But, she also reveals similarities between supposed contradictory cinemas and - importantly - not only how the 'Orient' is constructed by the 'Occident', but also how the 'Orient' itself in these cinemas represents Self and Others and how it is consumed by internal as well as external struggles. This is a fascinating, original contribution to the burgeoning interest in world cinemas, which also offers a fresh way of seeing Middle East politics through cinematic lenses.

Author : Itamar Rabinovich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367153113
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume X, 1986 written by Itamar Rabinovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle East Contemporary Survey is an annual record and analysis of political, economic, military, and international developments in the Middle East. Designed to be an up-to-date reference, it examines the rapidly changing Middle Eastern scene in all its complexity.

Author : Ami Ayalon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429718985
Total Pages : 987 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xii, 1988 written by Ami Ayalon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique annual record of political developments in the Middle East, the Middle East Contemporary Survey (MECS) is acknowledged as the standard reference work on events and trends in the region. Designed to be a continuing, up-to-date reference for scholars, researchers and analysts, policymakers, students, and journalists, it examines in detail the rapidly changing Middle Eastern scene in all its complexity. Each volume is divided into two parts: the first provides a series of essays on broad regional issues and on the region's foreign relations; the second offers country-by-country surveys of all the Arab states, as well as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. They elucidate the inner dynamics of each country's polity and society. Volume XII covers the year 1988-an eventful and in many ways momentous year in the Middle East. In the West Bank and Gaza, the intifada grew and conflict intensified, creating profound changes for all Palestinians, for Israel, and for the region at large. In 1988, the civilian uprising paved the way for the Palestinian declaration of independence and the concomitant boost in the PLO's international standing, generating new impetus for the long-stalemated Middle East peace process. The intifada also led to King Hussein's dissociation from the West Bank in word and deed. Among the other major themes covered in this volume are the sudden termination of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War with its domestic and regional repercussions; the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan after nine years of occupation; the impact of glasnost on Moscow's new political style, specifically its Middle Eastern policy; the ongoing disintegration of Lebanon; and the general elections in Israel, whose results led again to the formation of a National Unity Government.

Author : Ami Ayalon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429719515
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xiv: 1990 written by Ami Ayalon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual record of political developments in the Middle East is designed as a continuing, up-to-date reference for scholars, researchers and analysts, policy-makers, students and journalists. It examines in detail the rapidly-changing Middle-Eastern scene in all its complexity. This volume covers the eruption of the Gulf crisis and the war that had dramatic effects on all the countries of the Middle East.

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Publisher : Skira Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788857240169
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geometry and Art written by and published by Skira Editore. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey on Islamic geometry in modern and contemporary art. In a groundbreaking volume about the use of Islamic geometry in modern and contemporary art from the region, Middle East art expert and Sothebys Deputy Chairman Roxane Zand, and Dr Sussan Babaie professor of Islamic arts at the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London, explore ways in which traditional geometric legacies are applied and interpreted in new contexts. Dr Babaie's scholarly essay traces the significance of geometry in the history of Islamic arts, looking at the emergence of modernisms of the Middle East through the prism of selected works by twenty artists and their multidisciplinary practices. Their works underscore the distinctive ways geometry, a universal heritage, has inspired the art of the region. Lavishly illustrated and bound, the book is aimed at both the general user and those with academic interest.