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Reimagining Arab Political Identity: Justice, Women's Rights and the Arab State (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series) - Softcover

Book 51 of 53: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World

Hawa, Salam

 
9781032079110: Reimagining Arab Political Identity: Justice, Women's Rights and the Arab State (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1032079118 ISBN 13: 9781032079110
Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result that present day Arab societies are characterised by a crisis of identity where fundamentalism or chaos seem to be the only available choices. Tracing developments from pre-Islamic times through to the present, the book analyses the evolution of Arab political identity through a multi-layered lens, including memory and forgetting, social and cultural norms, local laws, poetry, dance, attitudes to women, foreigners and animals, ancient historical narratives and more. It argues that Arab societies have much to gain by recovering the "happy memory" of Arab culture as it was before being distorted.

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About the Author

Salam Hawa is an Affiliate of the Arab Canadian Studies Research Group at the University of Ottawa

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032079118
ISBN 13 
9781032079110
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192