Arabs in the mirror [[electronic resource] ] : images and self-images from pre-Islamic to modern times / / Nissim Rejwan |
Autore | Rejwan Nissim |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/7 |
Soggetto topico |
Arabs
Democracy - Arab countries Intellectuals - Arab countries National characteristics, Arab |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-292-79448-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The bedouin, the camel, the sand, and the palm tree -- Identity and self-definition -- Ibn Khaldun's appraisal appraised -- "Arabizing the Arabs" -- Self-images old and new -- Calls for "critical self-analysis" -- Unity in diversity -- The quest for democracy -- Resources and development -- The social scene -- The case of Egypt -- The West's inroads -- The difference Israel has made new lessons for old -- The intellectuals -- Appendix : portraits in a mirror : three fictional versions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454657703321 |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008 | ||
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Arabs in the mirror [[electronic resource] ] : images and self-images from pre-Islamic to modern times / / Nissim Rejwan |
Autore | Rejwan Nissim |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/7 |
Soggetto topico |
Arabs
Democracy - Arab countries Intellectuals - Arab countries National characteristics, Arab |
ISBN | 0-292-79448-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The bedouin, the camel, the sand, and the palm tree -- Identity and self-definition -- Ibn Khaldun's appraisal appraised -- "Arabizing the Arabs" -- Self-images old and new -- Calls for "critical self-analysis" -- Unity in diversity -- The quest for democracy -- Resources and development -- The social scene -- The case of Egypt -- The West's inroads -- The difference Israel has made new lessons for old -- The intellectuals -- Appendix : portraits in a mirror : three fictional versions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782006503321 |
Rejwan Nissim
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008 | ||
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Arabs in the mirror : images and self-images from pre-Islamic to modern times / / Nissim Rejwan |
Autore | Rejwan Nissim |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/7 |
Soggetto topico |
Arabs
Democracy - Arab countries Intellectuals - Arab countries National characteristics, Arab |
ISBN | 0-292-79448-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The bedouin, the camel, the sand, and the palm tree -- Identity and self-definition -- Ibn Khaldun's appraisal appraised -- "Arabizing the Arabs" -- Self-images old and new -- Calls for "critical self-analysis" -- Unity in diversity -- The quest for democracy -- Resources and development -- The social scene -- The case of Egypt -- The West's inroads -- The difference Israel has made new lessons for old -- The intellectuals -- Appendix : portraits in a mirror : three fictional versions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826616703321 |
Rejwan Nissim
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008 | ||
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Decolonization and the decolonized / / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno |
Autore | Memmi Albert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
Disciplina | 325/.309174927 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BononnoRobert |
Soggetto topico |
Postcolonialism - Arab countries
Cultural fusion - Arab countries Ethnopsychology - Arab countries National characteristics, Arab Arabs - Foreign countries |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4529-4376-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The New Citizen; THE GREAT DISILLUSION; A PARADOXICAL POVERTY; CORRUPTION; IMPOSTERS AND POTENTATES; TYRANTS, ZEALOTS, AND SOLDIERS; DIVERSIONS, EXCUSES, AND MYTHS; A CONVENIENT CONFLICT; THE FAILURE OF THE INTELLECTUALS; FICTION AND REALITY; CULTURAL LETHARGY; THE CLERICS' PLOT; FROM REPRESSION TO VIOLENCE; A NATION BORN TOO LATE; NATIONS WITHOUT LAW; A SICK SOCIETY; GOING ABROAD; The Immigrant; THE BLESSINGS OF EXILE; FAILURE TWICE OVER; A NEW REFRAIN; THE GHETTO; HEAD SCARVES AND MÉTISSAGE; HUMILIATION; FROM HUMILIATION TO RESENTMENT
THE SOLIDARITY OF THE VANQUISHEDCORPORATE IDENTITY; ABANDONING THE MYTH OF RETURN; THE IMMIGRANT'S SON; THE ZOMBIE; FROM EXCLUSION TO DELINQUENCY; QUESTIONING INTEGRATION; RECIPROCAL DEPENDENCE; THE LANGUORS OF EUROPE; HOPE FOR THE DECOLONIZED?; TOWARD A NEW WORLD; Afterword |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465024803321 |
Memmi Albert
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Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] | ||
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Decolonization and the decolonized / / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno |
Autore | Memmi Albert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
Disciplina | 325/.309174927 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BononnoRobert |
Soggetto topico |
Postcolonialism - Arab countries
Cultural fusion - Arab countries Ethnopsychology - Arab countries National characteristics, Arab Arabs - Foreign countries |
ISBN | 1-4529-4376-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The New Citizen; THE GREAT DISILLUSION; A PARADOXICAL POVERTY; CORRUPTION; IMPOSTERS AND POTENTATES; TYRANTS, ZEALOTS, AND SOLDIERS; DIVERSIONS, EXCUSES, AND MYTHS; A CONVENIENT CONFLICT; THE FAILURE OF THE INTELLECTUALS; FICTION AND REALITY; CULTURAL LETHARGY; THE CLERICS' PLOT; FROM REPRESSION TO VIOLENCE; A NATION BORN TOO LATE; NATIONS WITHOUT LAW; A SICK SOCIETY; GOING ABROAD; The Immigrant; THE BLESSINGS OF EXILE; FAILURE TWICE OVER; A NEW REFRAIN; THE GHETTO; HEAD SCARVES AND MÉTISSAGE; HUMILIATION; FROM HUMILIATION TO RESENTMENT
THE SOLIDARITY OF THE VANQUISHEDCORPORATE IDENTITY; ABANDONING THE MYTH OF RETURN; THE IMMIGRANT'S SON; THE ZOMBIE; FROM EXCLUSION TO DELINQUENCY; QUESTIONING INTEGRATION; RECIPROCAL DEPENDENCE; THE LANGUORS OF EUROPE; HOPE FOR THE DECOLONIZED?; TOWARD A NEW WORLD; Afterword |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789394803321 |
Memmi Albert
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Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Decolonization and the decolonized / / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno |
Autore | Memmi Albert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
Disciplina | 325/.309174927 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BononnoRobert |
Soggetto topico |
Postcolonialism - Arab countries
Cultural fusion - Arab countries Ethnopsychology - Arab countries National characteristics, Arab Arabs - Foreign countries |
ISBN | 1-4529-4376-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The New Citizen; THE GREAT DISILLUSION; A PARADOXICAL POVERTY; CORRUPTION; IMPOSTERS AND POTENTATES; TYRANTS, ZEALOTS, AND SOLDIERS; DIVERSIONS, EXCUSES, AND MYTHS; A CONVENIENT CONFLICT; THE FAILURE OF THE INTELLECTUALS; FICTION AND REALITY; CULTURAL LETHARGY; THE CLERICS' PLOT; FROM REPRESSION TO VIOLENCE; A NATION BORN TOO LATE; NATIONS WITHOUT LAW; A SICK SOCIETY; GOING ABROAD; The Immigrant; THE BLESSINGS OF EXILE; FAILURE TWICE OVER; A NEW REFRAIN; THE GHETTO; HEAD SCARVES AND MÉTISSAGE; HUMILIATION; FROM HUMILIATION TO RESENTMENT
THE SOLIDARITY OF THE VANQUISHEDCORPORATE IDENTITY; ABANDONING THE MYTH OF RETURN; THE IMMIGRANT'S SON; THE ZOMBIE; FROM EXCLUSION TO DELINQUENCY; QUESTIONING INTEGRATION; RECIPROCAL DEPENDENCE; THE LANGUORS OF EUROPE; HOPE FOR THE DECOLONIZED?; TOWARD A NEW WORLD; Afterword |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819124403321 |
Memmi Albert
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Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] | ||
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Monarchies and nations : globalisation and identity in the Arab states of the Gulf / / Paul Dresch and James Piscatori, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 953.6 |
Soggetto topico |
National characteristics, Arab
Nationalism - Persian Gulf States Asian history |
ISBN |
0-7556-1164-0
1-282-52792-4 9786612527920 0-85771-485-6 600-00-0851-1 1-4237-2904-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : societies, identities and global issues / Paul Dresch -- Channels of interaction : the role of Gulf-owned media firms in globalisation / Naomi Sakr -- Dialect and national identity : the cultural politics of self-representation in Bahraini Musalsalāt / Clive Holes -- Cultural construction, the Gulf and Arab London / Christa Salamandra -- Transnational connections and national identity : Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy : citizens, expatriates and the socio-political system in Kuwait / Anh Nga Longva -- Debates on marriage and nationality in the United Arab Emirates / Paul Dresch -- Public order and authority : policing Kuwait / Jill Crystal -- Gender, religious knowledge and education in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert -- Political actors without the franchise : women and politics in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault -- Managing God's guests : the pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the politics of legitimacy / James Piscatori. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452249303321 |
London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2005 | ||
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Monarchies and nations : globalisation and identity in the Arab states of the Gulf / / Paul Dresch and James Piscatori, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 953.6 |
Soggetto topico |
National characteristics, Arab
Nationalism - Persian Gulf States Asian history |
ISBN |
0-7556-1164-0
1-282-52792-4 9786612527920 0-85771-485-6 600-00-0851-1 1-4237-2904-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : societies, identities and global issues / Paul Dresch -- Channels of interaction : the role of Gulf-owned media firms in globalisation / Naomi Sakr -- Dialect and national identity : the cultural politics of self-representation in Bahraini Musalsalāt / Clive Holes -- Cultural construction, the Gulf and Arab London / Christa Salamandra -- Transnational connections and national identity : Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy : citizens, expatriates and the socio-political system in Kuwait / Anh Nga Longva -- Debates on marriage and nationality in the United Arab Emirates / Paul Dresch -- Public order and authority : policing Kuwait / Jill Crystal -- Gender, religious knowledge and education in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert -- Political actors without the franchise : women and politics in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault -- Managing God's guests : the pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the politics of legitimacy / James Piscatori. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777687803321 |
London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Monarchies and nations : globalisation and identity in the Arab states of the Gulf / / Paul Dresch and James Piscatori, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 953.6 |
Soggetto topico |
National characteristics, Arab
Nationalism - Persian Gulf States Asian history |
ISBN |
0-7556-1164-0
1-282-52792-4 9786612527920 0-85771-485-6 600-00-0851-1 1-4237-2904-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : societies, identities and global issues / Paul Dresch -- Channels of interaction : the role of Gulf-owned media firms in globalisation / Naomi Sakr -- Dialect and national identity : the cultural politics of self-representation in Bahraini Musalsalāt / Clive Holes -- Cultural construction, the Gulf and Arab London / Christa Salamandra -- Transnational connections and national identity : Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy : citizens, expatriates and the socio-political system in Kuwait / Anh Nga Longva -- Debates on marriage and nationality in the United Arab Emirates / Paul Dresch -- Public order and authority : policing Kuwait / Jill Crystal -- Gender, religious knowledge and education in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert -- Political actors without the franchise : women and politics in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault -- Managing God's guests : the pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the politics of legitimacy / James Piscatori. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817463203321 |
London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2005 | ||
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