Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition’s own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity.
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The Plaza The Ottoman Cafe The Seaport The Christian Alley The French Zone Hill and Plain The Market Pleasure Boulevards
Über den Autor
KHALED ZIADEH Ambassador of Lebanon in Cairo and Permanent Delegate to the Arab League.
SAMAH SELIM is Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University
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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 166 ● ISBN 9780230120075 ● Dateigröße 4.0 MB ● Verlag Palgrave Macmillan US ● Ort New York ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 4883542 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM