Dissident Syria : making oppositional arts official /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cooke, Miriam
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Syria > Intellectual life. Dissenters, Artistic > Syria. Art > Political aspects > Syria. Arabic literature > Syria > History and criticism. Arabic literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
"Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere
Freedom and democracy
Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri
No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa
Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice
Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul /
Historical miniatures
Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams
Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state
Leaving Damascus
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index.