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Struggle and survival in the modern Middle East edited by Edmund Burke, III and David N. Yaghoubian.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--Biography.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives / Edmund Burke III and David N. Yaghoubian
- Precolonial lives
- Assaf: a peasant of Mount Lebanon / Akram F. Khater and Antoine F. Khater
- Shemsigul: a circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Ehud R. Toledano
- Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus: a collective / Sherry Vatter
- Ahmad: a Kuwaiti pearl diver / Nels Johnson
- Mohand N'Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber / Edmund Burke III
- Bibi Maryam: a Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Julie Oehler
- Colonial lives
- The Shaykh and his daughter: coping in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith
- Izz al-Din al-Qassam: preacher and mujahid / Abdullah Schleifer
- Abu Ali al-Kilawi: a Damascus qabaday / Philip S. Khoury
- M'hamed Ali: Tunisian labor organizer / Eqbal Ahmad and Stuart Schaar
- Hagob Hagobian: an Armenian truck driver in Iran / David N. Yaghoubian
- Naji: an Iraqi country doctor / Sami Zubaida
- Post-Colonial lives
- Migdim: Egyptian bedouin matriarch / Lila Abu-Lughod
- Rostam: Qashqai rebel / Lois Beck
- An Iranian village boyhood / Mehdi Abedi and Michael M. [ths] J. Fischer
- Gulab: an Afghan schoolteacher / Ashraf Ghani
- Abu Jamal: a Palestinian urban villager / Joost Hiltermann
- Haddou: a Moroccan migrant worker / David Mcmurray
- Contemporary lives
- Nasir: Sa'idi youth between Islamism and agriculture
- Fanny colonna
- Ghada: village rebel or political protestor? / Celia Rothenberg
- Khanom gohary: Iranian community leader / Homa Hoodfar
- Nadia: mother of the believers / Baya Gacemi
- June leavitt: West Bank settler / Tamara neuman
- Talal Rizk: a Syrian engineer in the Gulf / Michael Provence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0520932501 (electronic bk.)
- 9780520932500 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99996719298
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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