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200 10$aLanguage, memory, and identity in the Middle East$b[electronic resource] $ethe case for Lebanon /$fFranck Salameh
210   $aLanham $cLexington Books$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (319 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Arabism and Its Rivals; Chapter 02. Swarming Memories, Clashing Identities: The Case for Lebanon; Chapter 03. Lebanon's Myths and Legends; Chapter 04. Sai?d Akl: The Architect of the Spirit of the Nation; Chapter 05. Particularism as Template; Chapter 06. Linguistic Lebanonism; Chapter07. Toward a Lebanese Alphabet, Toward a New Middle East; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
330   $aSince the West's very early flirtations with the modern Near East, and especially in the past 100 years of East-West relations, there has been considerable difficulty in understanding and defining the Middle East, the Arab world, pan-Arabism, Arab nationalism, and Middle Eastern identities in general. The Western impulse of conflating national identity with language, state, and ethnicity-often subsuming Arabic language into Arab ethnicity-has contributed to this misunderstanding and misreading of the region. For, while the Middle East can be accurately referred to by way of t
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