Minorities and the modern Arab world : new perspectives / edited by Laura Robson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robson, Laura, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Organization)

Series:

Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Arab countries--Congresses.

Minorities.

Arab countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 318 pages.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Conceptualizing Minorities

1. From Millet to Minority

Another Look at the Non-Muslim Communities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Peter Sluglett

2. Across Confessional Borders

Microhistory of Ottoman Christians and Their Migratory Paths / Jacob Norris

3. Becoming a Sectarian Minority

Arab Christians in Twentieth-Century Palestine / Laura Robson

4. Egypt and Its Jews

Specter of an Absent Minority / Joel Beinin

pt. TWO Minorities, Nationalism, and Cultural "Authenticity"

5. When Anticolonialism Meets Antifascism

Modern Jewish Intellectuals in Baghdad / Aline Schlaepfer

6. Assyrians and the Iraqi Communist Party

Revolution, Urbanization, and the Quest for Equality / Alda Benjamen

7. Struggle over Egyptianness

Case Study of the Nayruz Festival / Hiroko Miyokawa

8. From Minority to Majority

Inscribing the Mahra and Touareg into the Arab Nation / Samuel Liebhaber

pt. THREE Minorities in the Transnational Were

9. Tunisia's Minority Mosaic

Constructing a National Narrative / David Bond

10. Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East

Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine / Liora R. Halperin

11. Chaldean Church between Iraq and America

Transnational Social Field Perspective / Yasmeen Hanoosh

12. Permanent Temporariness in Berlin

Case of an Arab Muslim Minority in Germany / Lucia Volk.

Notes:

"This volume originated in a conference held at the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University in 2013, Minorities of the Modern Middle East."--Acknowledgments page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-300) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815653554

0815653557

Publisher Number:

99970522670

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