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  • Reorienting the Middle East

    Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet

    by Dale Hudson, Alia Yunis, Nelida Fuccaro, Firat Oruc, Ammar Al Attar, Bindu Menon, Parisa Vaziri, Sebastian Thejus Cherian, Karolina Ginalska0, Kay Dickinson1, Suzi Mirgani2, Chrysavgi Papagianni3, Sean Foley4, Elizabeth Derderian5, Sascha Ritter6 ...
    Stories of desert landscapes, cutting-edge production facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is a more complicated history that reflects long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so too is the flow of film and digital media ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    Edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli ...
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    Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on ... Read more

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  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    by Jon W. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Nefissa Naguib, Susanne Dahlgren, Cortney L. Hughes, Emilio Spadola, Suad Joseph, Dawn Chatty, Sondra Hale, Kim Shively, Lara Deeb, Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Jessica Winegar, Sebastian Maisel, Charlotte Karagueuzian, Pamela Chrabieh Badine, Seteney Shami ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

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  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

    The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

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  • Music and Media in the Arab World

    Edited by Michael Frishkopf ...
    Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly ... Read more

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  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

    The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Women Write Iran

    Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

    by Nima Naghibi ...
    Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized ... Read more

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  • Tourism in the Middle East

    Continuity, Change and Transformation

    Edited by Dr. Rami Farouk Daher ...
    Series Book 9 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This edited volume on tourism in the Middle East embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism in the region offering not only different perspectives but qualifying local knowledge and realities. The book re-examines the discourse of tourism within geopolitical contemporary regional realities. The book re-conceptualizes tourism as a discourse linked to heritage and identity ... Read more

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  • Translating Dissent

    Voices From and With the Egyptian Revolution

    Edited by Mona Baker ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media
    *Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016!*Discursive and non-discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian experience since 2011, this volume brings together a unique group of activists who are able to reflect on the ... Read more

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  • Turkish Drama Serials

    The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon

    by Miriam Berg ...
    The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications across the Global South. We learn how this phenomenon has transformed Turkey—a Muslim-majority country—into the world’s second-largest producer of scripted television serials, ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Shooting a Revolution

    Visual Media and Warfare in Syria

    by Donatella Della Ratta ...
    Series series Digital Barricades
    From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture. Yet what are the aesthetic, political and material implications of the collusion between the production of this sheer amount of visual media being continuously shared ... Read more

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