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  • Algerian Cinema in Forty Five Lessons

    Art, Politics and Social Change

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Algerian Cinema in Forty Five Lessons offers a fresh approach to examine the history of Algerian cinema, from its inception to the present day, providing in-depth analysis of forty five key films. While most scholarly and critical work on Algerian cinema continues to centre on the War of Independence and those films engaging with it, Dr Ahmed Bedjaoui argues that this thematic dominance has ... Read more

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  • Women and Resistance in the Maghreb

    Remembering Kahina

    Series series UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED)
    This book studies women’s resistance in the three countries of the Maghreb, concentrating on two questions: First, what has been the role of women artists since the 1960s in unlocking traditions and emancipating women on their own terms? Second, why have Maghrebi women rarely been given the right to be heard since Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia gained national independence?Honouring the artistic ... Read more

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    In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and the PKK and radical jihadist groups rose to prominence. In just a few years, Syria turned into a full-scale civil war involving major regional and ... Read more

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  • The Naked Blogger of Cairo

    Creative Insurgency in the Arab World

    A Times Higher Education Book of the YearUprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. ... Read more

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    Allegories of Resistance

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    Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia

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  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

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