Minorities and the modern Arab world : new perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robson, Laura (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.