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  • Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman

    by Marielle Risse ...
    Studying Marriage in Dhofar, Oman explains the choices middle-class, Muslim, tribal Dhofari men and women make when creating a life together. Based on 19 years observations of and discussions about Omani marriages, the book shows all the steps of marriage, including how people decide to get married, the wedding invitations and parties are arranged, the newlyweds’ home is organised, the work within ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Researching and Working on the Arabian Peninsula

    Creating Effective Interactions

    by Marielle Risse ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book outlines strategies for current or soon-to-be business professionals, government employees, researchers and teachers to communicate, study and work effectively on the Arabian Peninsula. Using first-person accounts, as well as scholarly research from the fields of history, anthropology, political science, travel writing and literature, this book gives clear advice for expats wanting to ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Houseways in Southern Oman

    by Marielle Risse ...
    This book explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term research in the Dhofar region, it draws on anthropology, sociology, urban studies and architectural history. The chapters consider physical and functional aspects, including regulations governing land use, factors in siting houses, architectural styles and norms for interior and exterior ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Foodways in Southern Oman

    by Marielle Risse ...
    Foodways in Southern Oman examines the objects, practices and beliefs relating to producing, obtaining, cooking, eating and disposing of food in the Dhofar region of southern Oman. The chapters consider food preparation, who makes what kind of food, and how and when meals are eaten. Marielle Risse connects what is consumed to themes such as land usage, gender, age, purity, privacy and generosity. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman

    by Marielle Risse ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how there is latitude for people to make their own choices and how the chances to assert independence change over time in a Muslim, Arab, tribal culture. The book first gives a brief overview of day-to-day life in the Dhofar region of southern Oman, then focuses on how the traits of self-control and self-respect are linked in the everyday actions of several groups of tribes who ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Cultural Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula

    Debates, Discourses and Practices

    by Karen Exell, Trinidad Rico ...
    Heritage projects in the Arabian Peninsula are developing rapidly. Museums and heritage sites are symbols of shifting national identities, and a way of placing the Arabian Peninsula states on the international map. Global, i.e. Western, heritage standards and practices have been utilised for the rapid injection of heritage expertise in museum development and site management and for international ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Nurturing Masculinities

    Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt

    by Nefissa Naguib ...
    Two structuring concepts have predominated in discussions concerning how Middle Eastern men enact their identity culturally: domination and patriarchy. Nurturing Masculinities dispels the illusion that Arab men can be adequately represented when we speak of them only in these terms. By bringing male perspectives into food studies, which typically focus on the roles of women in the production and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Representing the Nation

    Heritage, Museums, National Narratives, and Identity in the Arab Gulf States

    Edited by Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Victoria Hightower, Mariam Al-Mulla ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of ‘national museums’, institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the wide-ranging use of exhibitionary forms of national identity projection via consideration of their motivations, implications (current and future), ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Between Banat

    Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

    by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali ...
    In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from The Thousand and One Nights and the Golden Era of Egyptian cinema to contemporary novels, autobiographical writing, and prints and graphic novels that imagine queer Arab futures, Shomali uses what she calls queer Arab ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • This Queer Arab Family

    An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

    Edited by Elias Jahshan ...
    In Arab culture, tradition often dictates an individual's role in a family, with personal desires subsumed in favour of unity. So, what happens when Queer Arabs challenge and re-imagine these expectations?This Queer Arab Family celebrates the beauty of chosen kin and the everyday acts of care and survival that bind Queer Arabs to each other. Here, ten LGBTQ+ writers from across the Arab world and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Exploring Morocco: Highlights of Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fes and Tangier

    by Venice Kichura ...
    Morocco is a country rich in culture and history. Nothing compares to its beautiful scenery, which includes everything from white sandy beaches of Tangier and Casablanca to the majestic Atlas Mountains.From my recent trip to this enchanting country in North Africa I've learned to appreciate Morocco's past, besides get a taste of life here. This article also contains photos, traveling tips and life ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Limits of Whiteness

    Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

    by Neda Maghbouleh ...
    When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD