Arab youths: Leisure, culture and politics from Morocco to Yemen

doi:10.7765/9781526127464

This book offers a unique look at the young generations in the wake of the Arab Spring a decade ago. It is a calm, lively and sometimes disconcerting look that moves away from clichés. Young Arabs cannot be reduced to the figures of the potential terrorist, the eternal migrant or the exotic icon of the ‘revolution’. Coming from both sides of the Mediterranean and sharing the daily life of this generation, the researchers who wrote this book decided to go off the beaten track by telling how young Arabs spend their free time: a time of freedom and leisure where one can reflect, grow and build oneself – this ‘empty’ time too, where one can sometimes drift, get lost and break. From Morocco to Yemen, from Algeria to Syria, from Tunisia to Lebanon, via Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, these specialists draw up with sensitivity, humour and concern an exceptional portrait of a generation that is much talked about but too rarely listened to. This book gives a voice to young men and women who, heirs of plural traditions, animated by new ideas and influenced by various cultural movements, started inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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Front matter
pp i-iv
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Contents
pp v-viii
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Contributors
pp ix-xiii
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Foreword: Arab youth inside out
pp xiv-xvi
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Note on translation
pp xvii-xviii
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General introduction: Deconstructing stereotypes – interwoven trajectories of young Arabs
pp 1-16
- By Laurent Bonnefoy, Myriam Catusse
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Part I - Living in the present
pp 17-18
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Introduction: Living in the present
pp 19-21
- By Laurent Bonnefoy, Myriam Catusse
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1 - ‘Go ahead, burn your tyres!’: The lust for life of Saudi joyriders
pp 22-32
- By Pascal Menoret
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2 - ‘Just watching the time go by’: The ‘hittists’ of Algeria
pp 33-42
- By Loïc Le Pape
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3 - Coffee shops and youth sociability in Abu Dhabi
pp 43-52
- By Laure Assaf
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4 - From TV soaps to web dramas: A new platform for young Arabs
pp 53-56
- By Yves Gonzalez-Quijano
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5 - The buyat: Subverting gender norms in Saudi Arabia
pp 57-66
- By Amélie Le Renard
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6 - From jihad to Sufi ecstasy: Politico-religious trajectories in pre-revolutionary Syria
pp 67-76
- By Thomas Pierret
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7 - The Faculty of Education of Lab‛us: Salafism as a student subculture in Yemen
pp 77-87
- By Laurent Bonnefoy
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8 - ‘A man, a real man!’: Halima, a woman rebel in Gafsa (Tunisia)
pp 88-92
- By Amin Allal
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9 - Long-distance supporters: Barca and Real fans in Palestine
pp 93-100
- By Abaher El Sakka
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10 - Commentary in Arabic … or in Tigrinya? Football fans and the search for free television broadcasting
pp 101-106
- By Mahfoud Amara, Laurent Bonnefoy
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Part II - Rooting the future
pp 107-108
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Introduction: Rooting the future
pp 109-111
- By Laurent Bonnefoy, Myriam Catusse
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11 - Drinking in Hamra: Youthful nostalgia in Beirut?
pp 112-120
- By Nicolas Dot-Pouillard
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12 - The end of a world? Shifting seasons in Lejnan (Algeria)
pp 121-127
- By Mohand Akli Hadibi
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13 - Finding Baghdad: Young people in search of ‘normality’
pp 128-132
- By Zahra Ali, Laurent Bonnefoy
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14 - Two brothers: Family and hospitality in Al-Karak ( Jordan)
pp 133-138
- By Christine Jungen
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15 - In Massada Street’s coffee shops: The ambiguous social mix of the Palestinians of Israel in Haifa
pp 139-149
- By Mariangela Gasparotto
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16 - In the shade of the khayma: Cultural and political resistance of the young Sahrawis at Dakhla
pp 150-159
- By Victoria Veguilla Del Moral
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17 - Recreation, re-creation, resistance: What roles for dabke in Palestine?
pp 160-169
- By Xavier Guignard
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18 - Taranim and videos: The Egyptian Church stripped bare by its children?
pp 170-179
- By Laure Guirguis
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19 - ‘My identity is becoming clear like the sun’: Theatre in the Shiite schools of Lebanon
pp 180-188
- By Catherine Le Thomas
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Part III - Constructing oneself
pp 189-190
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