Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East
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Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

Second Edition

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eBook - PDF

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

Second Edition

About this book

Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history—depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East—from Morocco to Afghanistan—in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern Middle Eastern history "from the bottom up." Spanning the past 160-plus years and reflecting important transformations, these stories challenge elite-centered accounts of what has occurred in the Middle East and illuminate the previously hidden corners of a largely unrecorded world.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780520246614
Edition
2
eBook ISBN
9780520932500
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History
don: 
I.
B. 
Tauris, 
2000
), 
and 
Politics 
from 
Above, 
Politics 
from 
Below: 
The 
Middle
East 
in 
the 
Age 
of 
Economic 
Reform
(London: 
Saqi 
Press, 
2004
), 
give 
a 
broad
recent 
panorama, 
albeit 
one 
somewhat 
distanced 
from 
Egyptian 
society.
This 
is 
also 
the 
focus 
of 
Paul 
Amar 
and 
Diane 
Singerman, 
eds., 
Cosmopolitan
Cairo: 
World 
Capital 
of 
Myths 
and 
Movements
(Cairo: 
American 
University 
of
Cairo 
Press, 
2004
).
For 
an 
excellent 
discussion 
of 
marriage 
among 
lower-class 
urban 
Egyp-
tians, 
see 
chapter 
2
of 
Diane 
Singerman, 
Avenues 
of 
Participation: 
Family, 
Pol-
itics, 
and 
Networks 
in 
the 
Urban 
Quarters 
of 
Cairo
(Princeton, 
N.J.: 
Princeton
University 
Press, 
1985
). 
On 
political 
culture 
and 
civil 
society, 
see 
Jean-Noel
Ferrié, 
Le 
régime 
de 
civilité 
en 
Egypte: 
Public 
et 
réislamisation
(Paris: 
CNRS,
2004
). 
See 
Mohamed 
Berrada, 
Comme 
un 
été 
qui 
ne 
reviendra 
pas, 
Le 
Caire,
1955
–
1996
(Arles: 
Actes 
du 
Sud, 
2001
) 
for 
a 
description 
of 
the 
literary
salon 
of 
Mahmud 
Aqqad.
On 
Egyptian 
Islamism, 
see, 
among 
other 
works, 
Gilles 
Kepel, 
Jihad: 
The
Trail 
of 
Political 
Islam
(Cambridge, 
Mass.: 
Harvard 
University 
Press, 
2002
);
and 
Genevieve 
Abdo, 
No 
God 
But 
God: 
Egypt 
and 
the 
Triumph 
of 
Islam
(Oxford:
Oxford 
University 
Press, 
2000
).
318
contemporary 
lives

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