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Bericht uit Beiroet : dagboek van een oorlog
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ISBN: 9002222785 9789002222788 9789041411563 Year: 2006 Publisher: Antwerpen Amsterdam Standaard Anthos

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De grote beschavingsoorlog.
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ISBN: 9041410945 9789041410948 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam Anthos

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The naked blogger of Cairo : creative insurgency in the Arab world
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ISBN: 9780674737082 0674737083 9780674980051 0674980050 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Press

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"Uprisings 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. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, "The Naked Blogger of Cairo" uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings. While commentators have stressed the role of social media, Marwan M. Kraidy shows that the essential medium of political expression was not cell phone texts or Twitter but something more fundamental: the human body. Brutal governments that coerced citizens through torture and rape found themselves confronted with the bodies of protesters, burning with defiance and boldly violating taboos. Activists challenged authority in brazen acts of self-immolation, nude activism, and hunger strikes. The bodies of dictators became a focus of ridicule. A Web series presented Syria's Bashar al-Assad as a pathetic finger puppet, while cartoons and videos spread a meme of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak as a regurgitating cow. The rise of digital culture complicates our understanding of the human body in revolutionary times. As Kraidy argues, technology publicizes defiance, but the body remains the vital nexus of physical struggle and digital communication, destabilizing distinctions between "the real world" and virtual reality, spurring revolutionary debates about the role of art, and anchoring Islamic State's attempted hijacking of creative insurgency."--


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Empire, church and society in the late roman near east : Greeks, Jews, Syrians and Saracens : (Collected Studies, 2004-2014)
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ISBN: 9789042932913 9042932910 Year: 2015 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT Peeters


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Tussen twee werelden : de roots van een vrijheidsstrijd
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ISBN: 9059900022 9789059900028 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam Meulenhoff/Manteau

The Republic of Letters and the Levant
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ISBN: 9004147616 9789004147614 9789047416562 9047416562 Year: 2005 Volume: 5 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The eleven articles in this book seek to document the interest in the Levant that prevailed in the Republic of Letters from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth century. The emphasis is on those collectors of manuscripts and antiquaries who either travelled in the Middle East (the Vecchietti brothers, John Greaves and Patrick Russell) or who, remaining in Europe, acted through agents and correspondents - scholars such as Peiresc, John Selden and Robert Boyle. But themes such as the discussion prompted by European translations of the Quran and by scholarly enterprises in the East (such as the Mutaferrika printing press in Istanbul) also come to the fore in a volume which contributes to the history of oriental studies in early modern Europe. Contributors include: Maurits H. van den Boogert, Alastair Hamilton, Charles G.D. Littleton, Peter N. Miller, Hannah Neudecker, Francis Richard, Jan Schmidt, Zur Shalev, and G.J. Toomer.


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The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East : reassessing the sources
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ISBN: 9780521518871 9780511674679 9781107668027 9780511675416 0511675410 9780511672163 0511672160 110720707X 128254697X 9786612546976 0511674228 0511670885 0511674678 0511673434 0521518873 1107668026 Year: 2010 Volume: 147 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Ituraeans, a little-known people of late first century BCE Syria/Palestine, are referred to briefly in a number of early texts, notably Pliny, Strabo and Josephus, and the principality of Ituraea is mentioned in Luke 3.1. There is, as yet, no consensus among archaeologists as to whether certain artefacts should be attributed to the Ituraeans or not. They form a mysterious backdrop to what we know of the area in the time of Jesus, which remains obstinately obscure despite the enormous amount of research in recent decades on the 'historical Jesus' and Greco-Roman Galilee. Through reference to the early texts, modern scholarship has contributed to a claim the Ituraeans were an Arab tribal group known mainly for their recurrent brigandage. Elaine Myers challenges these presuppositions and suggests a reappraisal of previous interpretations of these texts and the archaeological evidence to present a more balanced portrait of this ancient people.

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Itureans --- History --- Sources --- Lebanon --- Biqāʻ Valley (Lebanon) --- Middle East --- Civilization --- 956.9 --- Geschiedenis van het Nabije Oosten --- 956.9 Geschiedenis van het Nabije Oosten --- Ituraeans --- Yeṭurim --- Ethnology --- Liban --- République libanaise --- Libanon --- Lubnān --- Libanan --- Livan --- Mont-Liban (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Jabal Lubnān (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Levanon --- Líbano --- Livanos --- Grand Lebanon --- Grand Liban --- Lebanese Republic --- Jumhūrīyah al Lubnānīyah --- Jumhouriya al-Lubnaniya --- Republic of Lebanon --- لبنان --- جمهورية اللبنانية --- Ліван --- Ліванская Рэспубліка --- Livanskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Ливан --- Република Ливан --- Republika Livan --- Λίβανος --- Δημοκρατία του Λιβάνου --- Dēmokratia tou Livanou --- Jumhūrīyyah al-Lubnānīyyah --- 레바논 --- לבנון --- רפובליקה הלבנונית --- Republiḳah ha-Levanonit --- Либан --- Либанска Република --- Libanska Republika --- レバノン --- Rebanon --- レバノン共和国 --- Rebanon Kyōwakoku --- Ливанская Республика --- Республіка Ліван --- Respublika Livan --- Ліванська Республика --- Livansʹka Respublyka --- Levonen --- 黎巴嫩 --- Libanen --- Bekaa Valley (Lebanon) --- Beqaʻ (Lebanon) --- Bika (Lebanon) --- Biqāʻ (Lebanon) --- Biqāʻ (Lebanon : Valley) --- Bukaʻa (Lebanon) --- Coelesyria (Lebanon) --- History. --- Sources. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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