The Arab at Home

The Arab at Home
Author: Paul Wilberforce Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 446
Release: 1924
Genre: Arabian Peninsula
ISBN:

The Arab at Home

The Arab at Home
Author: Paul W. Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-12-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976710407

Paul W. Harrison's "The Arab at Home" is a fascinating view of the Arab world between the wars, before the discovery of oil transformed the region. Harrison's ten years experience as a medical missionary in the region come through in his insight into the social relations, economy, and character of the region and its people.

When We Were Arabs

When We Were Arabs
Author: Massoud Hayoun
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1620974584

WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. Today, in the age of the Likud and ISIS, Oscar's son, the Jewish Arab journalist Massoud Hayoun whom Oscar raised in Los Angeles, finds his voice by telling his family's story. To reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity is, for Hayoun, part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. It is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world; an age that is now nearly lost. When We Were Arabs showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award–winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we draw the lines over which we do battle.

Arabs at Home and in the World

Arabs at Home and in the World
Author: Karla McKanders
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351263544

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent. It seeks to raise consciousness at the intersection of gender, identity, and human rights as it relates to Arabs at home and throughout the diaspora. The context of revolution and the destabilizing impact of armed conflicts in the region are used to critique and examine the utility of human rights law to address contemporary human rights issues through extralegal strategies. To this end, the volume seeks to inform, educate, persuade, and facilitate newer or less-heard perspectives related to gender and masculinities theories. It provides readers with new ways of understanding gender and human rights and proposes forward-looking solutions to implementing human rights norms. The goal of this book is to use the context of Arabs at home and throughout the diaspora to critique and examine the utility of human rights norms and laws to diminish human suffering with the goal of transforming the structural, social, and cultural conditions that impede access to human rights. This book will be of interest to a diverse audience of scholars, students, public policy researchers, lawyers and the educated public interested in the fields of human rights law, international studies, gender politics, migration and diaspora, and Middle East and North African politics.

Inside the Arab World

Inside the Arab World
Author: Michael Field
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674455214

Comprehensive survey of the Arab world.

The Arab World Today

The Arab World Today
Author: Morroe Berger
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1962
Genre: Arab countries
ISBN:

Arab Nahdah

Arab Nahdah
Author: Abdulrazzak Patel
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748677909

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards. To understand today's Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces.Patel explores the key factors that contributed to the rise and development of the nahdah, he introduces the humanist movement of the period that was the driving force behind much of the linguistic, literary and educational activity. Drawing on intellectual history, literary history and postcolonial studies, he argues that the nahdah was the product of native development and foreign assistance and that nahdah reformist thought was hybrid in nature. Overall, this study highlights the complexity of the movement and offers a more pluralist history of the period.

Arab Women's Lives Retold

Arab Women's Lives Retold
Author: Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780815631477

Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. The collection goes well beyond dismantling standard notions of Arab female subservience, exploring the many ways Arab women writers have learned to speak to each other, to their readers, and to the world at large. Drawing from a rich body of literature, the essays attest to the surprisingly lively and committed roles Arab women play in varied geographic regions, at home and abroad. These recent writings assess how the interplay between individual, private, ethnic identity and the collective, public, global world of politics has impacted Arab women’s rights.

The Honored Dead

The Honored Dead
Author: Joseph Braude
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0385527039

Traces the journalist author's investigation into the murder of a night watchman by a member of Morocco's new security task force, a mystery set against a backdrop of Western liberation efforts and Eastern jihad activities that are dividing Casablanca's Islamic metropolis.

The Dream Palace of the Arabs

The Dream Palace of the Arabs
Author: Fouad Ajami
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2009-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307484033

From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving together the strands of a tumultuous century in Arab political thought, history, and poetry, Ajami takes us from the ruins of Beirut's once glittering metropolis to the land of Egypt, where struggle rages between a modernist impulse and an Islamist insurgency, from Nasser's pan-Arab nationalist ambitions to the emergence of an uneasy Pax Americana in Arab lands, from the triumphalism of the Gulf War to the continuing anguished debate over the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. For anyone who seeks to understand the Middle East, here is an insider's unflinching analysis of the collision between intellectual life and political realities in the Arab world today.