African And Middle East Collections
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Author |
: Omar Ibn Said |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2011-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299249533 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299249530 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Muslim American Slave by : Omar Ibn Said
Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
Author |
: VENETIA. PORTER |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0714111953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780714111957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reflections by : VENETIA. PORTER
Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa brings together an extraordinary collection of work from the British Museum for the first time. The contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa is rich and vibrant. Whether living in their countries of birth or in diaspora, the featured artists are part of the globalised world of art. Here we see artists responding to and making work about their present, histories, traditions and cultures, reflecting on a part of the world that has experienced extraordinary change in living memory.The British Museum has been acquiring the work of Middle Eastern and North African artists since the 1980s, and the collection - principally works on paper - is one of the most extensive in the public sphere. Collected within the context of a museum of history, the works offer insights into the nature of civil societies, the complex politics of the region, and cultural traditions in their broadest sense, from the relationship with Islamic art, to the deep engagement with literature.The introduction to the book by curator Venetia Porter explores the history of the collection and the works included. The essential framework for understanding the politics and context within which the artists are working is provided by Charles Tripp's essay. The works are grouped into seven chapters, each beginning with a short introduction. The authors explore the selection within themes such as faith, abstraction and the female gaze.
Author |
: Thomas Leiper Kane |
Publisher |
: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 2390 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3447028718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783447028714 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Amharic-English dictionary by : Thomas Leiper Kane
Author |
: Ussama Makdisi |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2006-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253217989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253217981 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa by : Ussama Makdisi
Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.
Author |
: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 56 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105073202439 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis African and Middle East Collections by : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author |
: Jens Hanssen |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 672 |
Release |
: 2020-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191652790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191652792 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History by : Jens Hanssen
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries. The Handbook pays particular attention to countries that have leapt out of the political shadows of dominant and better-studied neighbours in the course of the unfolding uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. These dramatic and interconnected developments have exposed the dearth of informative analysis available in surveys and textbooks, particularly on Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.
Author |
: Cornell University |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 50 |
Release |
: 1867 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOMDLP:abj6477:0001.001 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Report of the Committee on Organization by : Cornell University
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2021-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004444973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004444971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Middle East and North Africa by :
Middle East and North Africa: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts – too hot to handle? The volume offers an account of ideas, historical case studies and current debates on climate change and its consequences from perspectives of eco-theology, archeology, history, geography, political science and technology.
Author |
: Ina Kubbe |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2019-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000760613 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000760618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa by : Ina Kubbe
This book investigates the pervasive problem of corruption across the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on the specifics of the local context, the book explores how corruption in the region is actuated through informal practices that coexist and work in parallel to formal institutions. When informal practices become vehicles for corruption, they can have negative ripple effects across many aspects of society, but on the other hand, informal practices could also have the potential to be leveraged to reinforce formal institutions to help fight corruption. Drawing on a range of cases including Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia or Israel the book first explores the mechanisms and dynamics of corruption and informal practices in the region, before looking at the successes and failures of anti-corruption initiatives. The final section focuses on gender perspectives on corruption, which are often overlooked in corruption literature, and the role of women in the Middle East. With insights drawn from a range of disciplines, this book will be of interest to researchers and students across political science, philosophy, socio-legal studies, public administration, and Middle Eastern studies, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in the region.
Author |
: Joel Beinin |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2020-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781503614482 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1503614484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa by : Joel Beinin
This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East. Leading scholars, representing several disciplines, contribute both thematic and country-specific analyses. Their writings critically examine major issues in political economy—notably, the mutual constitution of states, markets, and classes; the co-constitution of class, race, gender, and other forms of identity; varying modes of capital accumulation and the legal, political, and cultural forms of their regulation; relations among local, national, and global forms of capital, class, and culture; technopolitics; the role of war in the constitution of states and classes; and practices and cultures of domination and resistance. Visit politicaleconomyproject.org for additional media and learning resources.