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Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt
Lila Abu-LughodIn 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
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
PreviewLila 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: ...
J. DaccacheMeg 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
Lila Abu-LughodShe 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 ...
PreviewFrauenforschung 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
PreviewLILA 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?
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
Bob W. WhiteLarkin, 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
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
American College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsIllinois 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
Molly Mia StewartLila 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
Endsley Terrence JonesEndsley 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 ...
Frommer's Dubai and Abu Dhabi Day by Day
Gavin ThomasThis 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 ...
Joas WagemakersA 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 ...
Lila Corwin BermanLila 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 ...
Lila Corwin BermanIn 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.
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Marilynne RobinsonRevisiting 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
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Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration
Buṭrus Abū MannahBuṭrus 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.
Crimson Dahlia
Abigail OwenLila 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 ...
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
Lila BowenA rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.
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