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islamic studies --- art and humanities --- religion --- middle east studies --- values --- character education

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The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project—a Ba'thist cultural revolution—sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics of power against alternative modes of creative expression that could evade or ignore the effects of the state. With this book, Max Weiss offers the first cultural and intellectual history of Ba'thist Syria, from the coming to power of Hafiz al-Asad, through the transitional period under Bashar al-Asad, and continuing up through the Syria War. Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics, authoritarianism, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources—novels, films, and cultural periodicals—Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership, gender and power, comedy and ideology, surveillance and the senses, witnessing and temporality, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state, society, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years.

Politics and culture --- History --- Syria --- Cultural policy. --- Intellectual life --- History. --- Baʿthism. --- Middle East studies. --- Syria. --- aesthetics. --- cultural history. --- film studies. --- intellectual history. --- literary criticism. --- political science.

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Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema. The only book in English to offer this type of historical scope was Ella Shohat’s Israeli Cinema: East West and the Politics of Representation from 1989. Since 1989, however, Israeli cinema and Israeli society have undergone some crucial transformations and, moreover, Shohat’s book offered a single framework through which to judge Israeli cinema: a critique of orientalism. Projecting the Nation contends that Israeli cinema offers much richer historical and ideological perspectives that expose the complexity of the Israeli project. By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz and urban life, the rise of religion in Israeli public life and more, the book explores the way cinema has represented and also shaped our understanding of the history of modern Israel as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology.

PERFORMING ARTS / General. --- israeli cinema, israel, orientalism, film, Arab-Israeli conflict, Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, kibbutz, urban life, religion, judaism, jewish, collectivist society, individualism, Media Studies, Communications, Middle East Studies, Jewish Studies, World History.

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By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state law.Rachel M. Scott analyzes the complex effects of constitutional commitments to the sharia in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. She argues that the sharia is not dismantled by the modern state when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, but rather recast in its service. In showing the particular forms that the sharia takes when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, Scott pushes back against assumptions that introductions of the sharia into modern state law result in either the revival of medieval Islam or in its complete transformation. Scott engages with premodern law and with the Ottoman legal legacy on topics concerning Egypt's Coptic community, women's rights, personal status law, and the relationship between religious scholars and the Supreme Constitutional Court. Recasting Islamic Law considers modern Islamic state law's discontinuities and its continuities with premodern sharia.

RELIGION / Islam / Law. --- Religious Studies. --- Middle East Studies. --- Legal History & Studies. --- Middle East studies --- Middle Eastern studies --- Near East studies --- Oriental studies --- Constitutional law (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- Law --- Islam and state --- Constitutional law --- Islamic influences. --- Egyptian revolution of 2011, religion and state in Egypt, Sharia, Islamic Law, religion and politics,. --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Islamic influences --- Religion --- Study and teaching. --- History

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Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism. In a vibrant examination of people in motion, Julia A. Clancy-Smith tells the story of countless migrants, travelers, and adventurers who traversed the Mediterranean, changing it forever. Who were they? Why did they leave home? What awaited them in North Africa? And most importantly, how did an Arab-Muslim state and society make room for the newcomers? Combining fleeting facts, tales of success and failure, and vivid cameos, the book gives a groundbreaking view of one of the principal ways that the Mediterranean became modern.

Europeans --- North Africans --- Immigrants --- History --- Tunis (Tunisia) --- Algeria --- Europe --- Africa, North --- Emigration and immigration --- Relations --- 19th century. --- arab muslim state. --- arab society. --- borderlands. --- economic change. --- egypt. --- europe. --- french colonialism. --- historians. --- historical account. --- historical. --- immigration studies. --- international migration. --- levant. --- mediterraneans. --- middle east scholars. --- middle east studies. --- migrant laborers. --- migration. --- modernization. --- muslim culture. --- nonfiction studies. --- north africa. --- political history. --- regional history. --- travelers. --- tunis region. --- world history.