Arab Youths : Leisure, Culture and Politics from Morocco to Yemen / edited by Laurent Bonnefoy and Myriam Catusse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonnefoy, Laurent, editor.

Catusse, Myriam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Activism.

Youth--Arab countries.

Youth.

Youth--Social conditions.

Youth--Political activity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Paris, France : Éditions La Découverte, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Young Arabs are too often reduced to the figures of the potential terrorist, the migrant or the exotic icon of the revolution. But the reality is much richer.Coming from both sides of the Mediterranean, the researchers in this book travel off the beaten track by exploring how young Arabs spend their free time. The case studies take in a wide range of countries, including Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and all manner of activities, from football to rap music, café culture to sex work. Drawn with sensitivity and humour, Arab youths presents an exceptional portrait of a generation that is much talked about but rarely listened to.This book gives a voice to young men and women who, as heirs of plural traditions, animated by new ideas and influenced by various cultural movements, are inventing the future of their societies in the midst of radical change.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword: Arab youth inside out

Note on translation

General introduction: Deconstructing stereotypes: interwoven trajectories of young Arabs

General introduction

I Living in the present

Introduction

1 ‘Go ahead, burn your tyres!’

2 ‘Just watching the time go by’

3 Coffee shops and youth sociability in Abu Dhabi

4 From TV soaps to web dramas

5 The buyat

6 From jihad to Sufi ecstasy

7 The Faculty of Education of Lab‛us

8 ‘A man, a real man!’

9 Long-distance supporters

10 Commentary in Arabic … or in Tigrinya? Football fans and the search for free television broadcasting

II Rooting the future

11 Drinking in Hamra

12 The end of a world? Shifting seasons in Lejnan (Algeria)

13 Finding Baghdad

14 Two brothers

15 In Massada Street’s coffee shops

16 In the shade of the khayma

17 Recreation, re-creation, resistance

18 Taranim and videos

19 ‘My identity is becoming clear like the sun’

III Constructing oneself

20 ‘A room of one’s own’

21 A different way of being a young woman? Self-defence in Cairo

22 Chewing alone? The transformations of qat consumption in Yemen

23 Gulf holiday-goers in Europe

24 In SOS Bab-el-Oued

25 Leaving the camp

26 ‘Rainbow Street’

27 Brahim

28 ‘Bnat lycée dayrin sexy’

IV Speaking out

29 ‘A bad day for Ammar’

30 A new social world? Young Syrian activists and online social networks

31 Stand up

32 The café in Jadu

33 From consumerism to political engagement

34 When walls speak

35 Art under occupation

36 ‘The instinct of rap’

37 Rocking in Morocco

38 Alexandrians in fusion

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526127464

1526127466

OCLC:

1432031015