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Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt

Lila Abu-Lughod

In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and seek to direct the changing course of Islam, gender relations, and everyday life in this Middle Eastern nation.
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

Lila Abu-Lughod

"A truly extraordinary book--beautifully and modestly written, remarkably insightful, consistently compelling." --Edward Said, author of Out of Place: A Memoir
Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media

Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media

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Lila Abu-Lughod here examines these images of religious extremism in popular Arab media, focusing most closely on such depictions in Egyptian television shows of the 1990s.
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: ...

Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: ...

J. Daccache

Meg McLagan, “Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet,” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, eds. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin (Berkeley: University of California Press, ...
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories

Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories

Lila Abu-Lughod

She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.
Wechselnde Blicke: Frauenforschung in internationaler ...

Wechselnde Blicke: Frauenforschung in internationaler ...

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Frauenforschung in internationaler Perspektive Ilse Lenz, Andrea Germer, Brigitte Hasenjürgen. Autorinnen und Herausgeberinnen Lila Abu-Lughod ist Professorin für Anthropologie an der New York University. Sie arbeitet schwerpunktmäßig ...
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East

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LILA ABU-LUGHOD IN THE CONTEXT of her analysis of the East/West dialectic that has secured the veil as a loaded symbolic marker of cultural identity and women's status in the contemporary Muslim world, Leila Ahmed has argued that  ...
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Lila Abu-Lughod

... Human Rights Debatein Egypt,”Nations and Nationalism 13,no.2 (2007): 285– 300. 6. NadjeSadigAlAli, IraqiWomen: Untold Stories from 1948 tothe Present ( London: Zed Books,2007); Siham'Abd alSalam, Almunazzamat alahliyya alsaghira ...
Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire

Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire

Bob W. White

Larkin, Brian. 2002. “The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria.” In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, ed. FayeD. Ginsburg, Lila Abu- Lughod, and Brian Larkin, 319–36. Berkeley: University of California Press. Lienhardt ...
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350

Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350

Janet L. Abu-Lughod

"First published in 1989 ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1991"--T.p. verso.
ACOG Directory of Fellows with Officers and Committees

ACOG Directory of Fellows with Officers and Committees

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Illinois Abu, John Idaewor Brandon. Florida Abu-Fadil. Salim Fadil Bellflower. California Abu-Ghazaleh. Samir Z. Sioux Falls, South Dakota Abu-Rustum. Nadeem Riyad Baltimore. Maryland Abu-Rustum. Reem Sameer Gainesville, Florida ...
Lila's Christmas Angel

Lila's Christmas Angel

Molly Mia Stewart

Lila Fowler, whose parents are divorcing and whose father is too busy for her, is facing a sad Christmas until she meets Serena, a guardian angel, who understands Lila's problems. Original.
Conducting political research

Conducting political research

Endsley Terrence Jones

Endsley Terrence Jones ... The studies are Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, "International News in the Arabic Press: A Comparative Content Analysis," Public Opinion Quarterly, 26 (Winter, 1962), 600-612; Leonard Broom and Shirley Reece, " Political ...
The Mysteries of Abu Simbel:

The Mysteries of Abu Simbel:

zahi hawass

A lush and illustrated guide to the temples of Abu Simbel
Frommer's Dubai and Abu Dhabi Day by Day

Frommer's Dubai and Abu Dhabi Day by Day

Gavin Thomas

This valuable guide includes recommended itineraries and detailed bulleted maps, offering a unique experience of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Frommer's Dubai & Abu Dhabi day by day 13 Self-guided Tours. 27 Maps. One Great Trip.
A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu ...

A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu ...

Joas Wagemakers

A groundbreaking assessment of the life and ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, one of the most influential radical Muslim thinkers alive today.
Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of ...

Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of ...

Lila Corwin Berman

Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors.
Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar ...

Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar ...

Lila Corwin Berman

In this provocative urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit s Jews have played in the city s well-known narratives of migration and decline.
Lila

Lila

Marilynne Robinson

Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Orange Prize-winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence.
Directory of physicians in the United States

Directory of physicians in the United States

American Medical Association

704 NE 10 AVE 32601 #0114)3 L93 FP '012 ABU-HASAN, Mutaslm N. 2000 SW 16TH ST APT 127 32608 #5754)1 PD '012 ABU-RUSTUM, Reem Sameer. 5332 SW 88TH CT 32608 #01103 OBG '012 ABUSHAMAT, Abdelraouf F. 2701 NW ...
Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration

Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration

Buṭrus Abū Mannah

Buṭrus Abū Mannah, Itzchak Weismann Fruma Zachs ... and Syrian patriotism. Bustani truly believed that without the protection of the Fruma Zachs and Basilius Bawardi: Ottomanism and Syrian Patriotism in Salim al-Bustani's Thought.
Lila's Hamsa

Lila's Hamsa

Arlene Kurtis

"No deception ever lasts, does it, Rabbi?
Crimson Dahlia

Crimson Dahlia

Abigail Owen

Lila Jenner left her family to start a new life away from Ramsey Pierce.
Murder in the Name of Honour: The True Story of One Woman''s ...

Murder in the Name of Honour: The True Story of One Woman''s ...

Rana Husseini

... Samer Naber, Nadia Hashem Aloul, Emily Naffa, Laila Hamarneh, Toujan Faisal, Samar Haj Hassan, Salwa Nasser, Ethar Khasawneh, Lina Kutob, Reem Abu Hassan, Afaf Jabiri, Eva Abu Halaweh, Nadia Bushnaq, Basma Abdul Jaber, Shirin Mired, Mahasen Imam, Muna Mufti, Salma and Simon Issa, Rihab Malhas, Susan Phillips, Jeanette Jounblat, Myassar Saadi, Suhaila Khouri, Captain Amin and Nadia Husseini, Captain Nasri and Randa Jumeian, Ghada and Abed Husseini, ...
Wake of Vultures: The Shadow: Book One

Wake of Vultures: The Shadow: Book One

Lila Bowen

A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.

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