The Arab Revolts

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movemen... Lees meer

Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021

Elizabeth M Perego

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• In times of peace as well as conflict, humor has served Algerians as a tool of both unification and division. Humor has also assisted Algerians of var... Lees meer

Performing Al-Andalus

Jonathan Holt Shannon

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, know... Lees meer

The Middle East and Brazil

Nadine Naber, Bassam Haddad, Moustafa Bayoumi, Anthony Pereira

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by th... Lees meer

Arab Masculinities

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Arab Masculinities provides a groundbreaking analysis of Arab men's lives in the precarious aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings. It challenges receiv... Lees meer

The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contr... Lees meer

The Gnawa Lions

Christopher Witulski

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Traditionally gnawa musicians in Morocco played for all-night ceremonies where communities gathered to invite spirits to heal mental, physical, and so... Lees meer

The Wretched of France

Abdellali Hajjat

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• In 1983--as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest--youths from Vénissieux (working-class suburbs of Lyon) led t... Lees meer

The Middle East and Brazil

Nadine Naber, Bassam Haddad, Moustafa Bayoumi, Anthony Pereira

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by th... Lees meer

Palestinian Music and Song

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Drawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the mi... Lees meer

Everyday Life in Global Morocco

Rachel Newcomb

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging explo... Lees meer

Learning in Morocco

Charis Boutieri

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics ... Lees meer

Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan

Geoffrey F Hughes

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan , Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriage crisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rap... Lees meer

The Calls of Islam

Emilio Spadola

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• 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 th... Lees meer

Music and the Armenian Diaspora

Sylvia Angelique Alajaji

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• 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 ... Lees meer

Saharan Frontiers

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• 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... Lees meer

Women of the Midan

Sherine Hafez

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• In Women of the Midan , Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested... Lees meer

Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan

Geoffrey F Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan , Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriage crisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rap... Lees meer

Space and Mobility in Palestine

Julie Peteet

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Professor Julie Peteet believes that the concept of mobility is key to understanding how place and space act as forms of power, identity, and meaning ... Lees meer

Learning in Morocco

Charis Boutieri

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics ... Lees meer

The Invisible Palestinians

Andreas Hackl

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Within the heart of the Jewish city of Tel Aviv, there is a hidden reality--Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority without acces... Lees meer

Everyday Life in Global Morocco

Rachel Newcomb

• Paperback | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging explo... Lees meer

Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa

Mara A Leichtman

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• 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 Sen... Lees meer

The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology

• Hardcover | Engels | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contr... Lees meer