The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture

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References

Guide to further reading

Modern Arab culture: introductory remarks

Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Holt and Co., 2009.

Gelvin, James L.The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know.Oxford University Press, 2012.

Kraidy, Marwan. Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Chapter 1: The question of language

Beeston, Alfred Felix Landon. The Arabic Language Today. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.

Haeri, Niloofar. Sacred Language, Ordinary People. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Holes, Clive. Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004.

Stetkevych, Jaroslav. The Modern Arabic Literary Language: Lexical and Stylistic Developments. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.

Versteegh, Kees. The Arabic Language. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Chapter 2: Ethnic and religious minorities

Bailey, Betty Jane, and Martin, J.. Who Are the Christians in the Middle East?Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.

Bengio, Ofra, and Ben-Dor, Gabriel. Minorities and the State in the Arab World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.

Cleveland, William L., and Bunton, Martin, A History of the Modern Middle East. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009.

Collins, Robert O.A History of Modern Sudan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Held, Colbert C., and Cummings, John Thomas. Middle East Patterns: Places, Peoples, and Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2011.

Chapter 3: Nahda: the Arab project of enlightenment

Bashkin, Orit. The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq. Stanford University Press, 2009.

Binder, Leonard. Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Commins, David. Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Hafiz, Sabry. The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse: A Study in The Sociology of Modern Arabic Literature. London: Saqi Books, 1993.

Hamzah, Dyala (ed.). The Making of the Arab Intellectual, 1880–1960: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Haykel, Bernard. Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkani. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Hourani, Albert. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798–1939. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Irwin, Robert. Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its Discontents. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2006.

Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne. Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Contemporary Perspective. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Maghraoui, Abdeslam. Liberalism Without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Mishra, Pankaj. From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Pollard, Lisa. Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805–1923. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Sedgwick, Mark. Muhammad Abduh. Oxford: Oneworld, 2010.

Chapter 4: Law

Bechor, Guy. The Sanhuri Code, and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law (1932 to 1949). Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Bernard-Maugiron, Nathalie, and Dupret, Baudouin (eds.). Egypt and its Laws. The Hague: Kluwer, 2002.

Brown, Nathan J.Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Brown, Nathan J.The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hill, Enid. “Al-Sanhuri and Islamic Law: The Place and Significance of Islamic Law in the Life and Work of ʾAbd [sic] al-Razzaq Ahmad al-Sanhuri, Egyptian Jurist and Scholar, 1895–1971,” Arab Law Quarterly, pt. 1 in 3:1 (1988): pp. 33–64; pt. 2 in 3:2 (1988): pp. 182–218.

Lombardi, Clark B.State Law as Islamic Law in Modern Egypt: The Incorporation of the Sharī ʿa into Egyptian Constitutional Law. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Mallat, Chibli. Introduction to Middle Eastern Law. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Saleh, Nabil. “Civil Codes of Arab Countries: The Sanhuri Codes,” Arab Law Quarterly, 8:2 (1993): pp. 161–167.

Sfeir, George N.Modernization of the Law in Arab States. San Francisco, CA: Austin & Winfield, 1988.

Vogel, Frank E.Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Chapter 5: Poetry

Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Akash, Munir, and Mattawa, Khaled (eds.). Post-Gibran: Anthology of New Arab- American Writing. West Bethesda, MD: Kitab, distributed by Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Allen, Roger. The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Development of its Genres and Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Badawi, M. M. (ed.). Modern Arabic literature. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Caton, Steven C.“Peaks of Yemen, I Summon”: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Handal, Nathalie (ed.). The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. New York: Interlink Books, 2001.

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry, 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1978.

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (ed.). Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Reynolds, Dwight F.Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Starkey, Paul. Modern Arabic Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Chapter 6: Narrative

Allen, Roger. The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction. Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Badawi, Muhammad Mustafa. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Brugman, J.An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt. Leiden: Brill, 1984.

Cooke, Miriam. War’s Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

El Sadda, Hoda. Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892–2008. Syracuse University Press, 2012.

Musawi, Muhsin. The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Reprint 2005.

Musawi, MuhsinIslam on the Street: Religion in Modern Arabic Literature. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.

Meyer, Stefan G.The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Said, Edward. “Arabic Prose and Prose Fiction after 1967.” In Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Siddiq, Muhammad. Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

Chapter 7: Music

Burkhalter, Thomas. Local Music Scenes and Globalization – Transnational Platforms in Beirut. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.

Danielson, Virginia. The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthūm, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press. 1997.

Danielson, Virginia, Marcus, Scott, and Reynolds, Dwight (eds.). Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6: The Middle East. New York: Routledge. 2002.

Frishkopf, Michael (ed.). Music and Media in the Arab World. American University in Cairo Press. 2010.

Goldman, Michal, producer, directer, and writer. Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt. A video recording, a production of the Filmmakers Collaborative, 1996.

Lohman, Laura. Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010.

Marcus, Scott. Music in Egypt. Oxford University Press. 2007

Racy, Jihad Ali. Making Music in the Arab World: the Culture and Artistry of Tarab. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Shannon, Jonathan. Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006.

Stone, Christopher. Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation. London and New York: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 2007.

Chapter 8: Cinema and television

Armes, Roy. Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Darwish, Mustafa. Dream Makers on the Nile. American University in Cairo Press, 1998.

El-Nawawy, Mohammed, and Iskandar, Adel. Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism. Boulder, CO: Basic Books, 2003.

Lynch, Marc. Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Miles, Hugh. Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West. New York: Grove Press, 2006.

Sakr, Naomi. Arabic Television Today. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Seib, Philip. Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Shafik, Viola. Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity. American University in Cairo Press, 1998.

Shaheen, Jack. Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People. New York: Olive Branch Press, 2001.

Chapter 9: Theater

Allen, Roger. “Arabic Drama in Theory and Practice: The Writings of Saʿadallah Wannus.” Journal of Arabic Literature 15 (1984): pp. 94–113.

Allen, Roger“Drama and Audience: The Case of Arabic Theater.” Theater Three 6 (1989): pp. 25–54.

Allen, Roger“Egyptian Drama after the Revolution.” Edebiyat 4:1 (1979): pp. 97–134.

Amin, Dina A.Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theater: The Poetics of Disguise. Syracuse University Press, 2008.

Amin, Dina A. “Egyptian Theater: Reconstructing Performance Spaces.” Arab Studies Journal 14:2 (Fall 2006): pp. 78–100.

Awad, Louis. “Problems of the Egyptian Theatre.” In R. C. Ostle (ed.). Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1975, pp. 179–93.

Badawi, M. M.Early Arabic Drama. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Badawi, M. M.Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

al-Raʿi, ʿAli. “Some Aspects of Arabic Drama.” In R. C. Ostle (ed.). Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1975, pp. 167–78.

Rubin, Don (ed.). The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: The Arab World. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Selaiha, Nihad. “Voices of Silence: Women Playwrights in Egypt.” In Egyptian Theatre, A Diary: 1990–1992. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub, 1993.

Chapter 10: Art

Ali, Wijdan. Artworld: Contemporary Art in the Middle East. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2009.

Ali, WijdanContemporary Art from the Islamic World. London: Scorpion Publishing, 1989.

O’Brian, David and Prochaska, David (eds.). Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists. Illinois: Krannert Art Museum, 2004.

Eigner, Saeb. Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran. Forward by Zaha Hadid. London and New York: Merrel Publishers Ltd., 2010.

Faraj, Maysaloun (ed.). Strokes of Genius: Contemporary Iraqi Art. London: Saqi Books, 2001.

Hale, Sondra, “Imagery and Invention: Sudanese at Home and In the World.” In Sherifa Zuhur (ed.). Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts in the Middle East. American University in Cairo Press, 1998, pp. 187–203.

Khal, Helen. Lebanon: The Artist’s View II 1975–2004. London: The British Lebanese Association, 2004.

Khal, HelenThe Woman Artist in Lebanon. Washington, DC, and Beirut: The Institute for Women’s Studies, 1987.

Lloyd, Fran (ed.). Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogues of the Present. London: Women’s Art Library, 1999.

Lloyd, FranDisplacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab Visual Culture in the Diaspora. London: Saffron, 2001.

Nashashibi, Salwa Mikdadi. “Gender and Politics in Contemporary Art: Arab Women Empower the Image.” In Sherifa Zuhur (ed.). Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts in the Middle East. American University in Cairo Press, 1998, pp. 165–82.

Porter, Venetia. Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East. London: The British Museum Press, 2006.

Saudi, Mona. Mona Saudi: Forty Years in Sculpture. Beirut: 2006.

Winegar, Jessica. Creative Reckonings: The Arts of Politics and Culture in Contemporary Egypt. Stanford University Press, 2006.

Chapter 11: Architecture

Bianca, Stefano. Urban Form in the Arab World: Past and Present. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Chadirji, Rifat. Concepts and Influences: Towards a Regionalized International Architecture. London: KPI Ltd., 1986.

Easterling, Keller. Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.

Fathy, Hasan. Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt. University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Holod, Renata, and Khan, Hasan-Uddin. The Contemporary Mosque: Architects, Clients, and Designs since the 1950s. New York: Rizzoli, 1997.

Kultermann, Udo. Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States: Renaissance of a Region. London: McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Makiya, Kanan. Post-Islamic Classicism: A Visual Essay on the Architecture of Mohamed Makiya. London: Saqi Books, 1990.

Rabbat, Nasser. Thaqafat al-Binaʾ wa-Binaʾ al-Thaqafa: Buhuth wa-Maqalat fi Naqd wa-Tarikh Al-ʿImrah, 1985–2000. Beirut: Riyad al-Rayyis, 2002.

Shafei, Farid M.Al-ʿImara al-ʿArabiya al-Islamiya: Madiha wa-Hadiruha wa-Mustaqbaluha. Riyadh: Imadat Shuun al -Maktabat, 1982.

Volait, Mercedes. L’architecture moderne en Egypte et la revue al-ʿImara (1939–1959). Cairo: CEDEJ, 1988.

Chapter 12: Humor

Caubet, Dominique. “Jeux de Langues: Humor and Codeswitching in the Maghreb.” In Aleya Rouchdy (ed.). Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme. London and New York: RoutlegeCurzon, 2002, pp. 233–58.

Göçek, Fatma Müge (ed.). Political Cartoons in the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 1998.

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, Sorenson, Matthew, and Tingley, Christopher. Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor. Northhampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2006.

Kanaana, Sharif. “Humor of the Palestinian Intifada.” Journal of Folklore Research 27:3 (1990): pp. 231–40.

Kanaana, Sharif“Palestinian Humor During the Gulf War.” Journal of Folklore Research, 32:1 (1995): pp. 65–75.

Kazarian, Shahe S. “Humor in the Collectivist Arab Middle East: The Case of Lebanon.” International Journal of Humor Research 24:3 (2011): pp. 329–48.

Kishtainy, Khaled. Arab Political Humor. London: Quartet Books, 1986.

Mednicoff, David. “Cultural Apathy in the Service of Stability?: Cultural Politics in Monarchist Morocco.” North African Studies 3:4 (1998): pp. 1–27.

al-Muhawi, Ibrahim. “Language, Ethnicity and National Identity in the Tunisian Ethnic Joke.” In Yasir Sulaiman (ed.). Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Psychology Press, 1996, pp. 39–60.

Rosenthal, Franz. Humor in Early Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1965.

Shehata, Samer S. “The Politics of Laughter: Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak in Egyptian Political Jokes.” Folklore 103:1 (1992): pp. 75–91.

Stewart, Devin. “The Humor of the Scholars: The Autobiography of Niʿmat Allāh al-Jazāʾirī (d. 1112/1701).”Iranian Studies 22 (1989): pp. 47–50.

Chapter 13: Folklore

Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. American University in Cairo Press, 1986.

Boddy, Janice. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zār Cult in Northern Sudan. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Cachia, Pierre. Narrative Ballads of Egypt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Caton, Steven. “Peaks of Yemen I Summon”: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Drieskens, Barbara. Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo. London: Saqi Books, 2008.

Miller, W. Flagg. The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Center for Middle East Studies, 2007.

Muhawi, Ibrahim, and Kanaana, Sharif. Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989

Reynolds, Dwight F.Arab Folklore: A Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007.

Reynolds, Dwight F.Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.

El-Shamy, Hassan. Folktales of Egypt. Chicago University Press, 1980.

Chapter 14: Food and cuisine

Benkheira, Mohammed Hocine. Islam et interdits alimentaires: Juguler l’animalité. Paris: PUF, 2000.

Bsisu, May S.The Arab Table: Recipes and Culinary Traditions. New York: William Morrow, 2005.

Davidson, Alan. The Oxford Companion to Food. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Gelder, Geert Jan van. God’s Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Lewicka, Paulina B.Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes: Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Nasrallah, Nawal. Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq’s Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Nasrallah, NawalDelights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and History of the Iraqi Cuisine. 2nd edition. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2013.

Roden, Claudia. The New Book of Middle Eastern Food. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Rodinson, Maxime, Arberry, A.J., and Perry, Charles (eds.). Medieval Arab Cookery: Essays and Translations. Devon: Prospect Books, 2001.

Waines, David. In a Caliph’s Kitchen. London: El-Rayyes Books, Ltd., 1989.

Wright, Clifford A.A Mediterranean Feast. New York: William Morrow, 2000.

Zubaida, Sami and Tapper, Richard (eds.). A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. London: Taurus Park Paperbacks, 2000.

Chapter 15: Migration and diaspora

Alfaro-Velcamp, Theresa. So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas, 2007.

Brand, Laurie A.Citizens Abroad: Emigration and the State in the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Bunt, Gary R.iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Civantos, Christina. Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.

Cooke, Miriam, and Lawrence, Bruce B. (eds.). Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Hargreaves, Alec G.Immigration and Identity in Beur Fiction: Voices from the North African Community in France. New York and Oxford: Berg, 1991.

Hourani, Albert, and Shehadi, Nadim (eds.). The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration. London: The Centre for Lebanese Studies/I.B. Tauris, 1992.

Karam, John Tofik. Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.

Khater, Akram. Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870–1920. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2001.

Lloyd, Fran. Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab Visual Culture in the Diaspora. London: Saffron Books, 2001.

Nashashibi, Salwa Mikdadi. In/Visible: Contemporary Art by Arab American Artists. Dearborn, MI: Arab American National Museum, 2005.

Peleikis, Anja. Lebanese in Motion: Gender and the Making of a Translocal Village. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2003.

Schulz, Helena Lindholm with Hammer, Juliane. The Palestinian Diaspora: Formation of Identities and Politics of Homeland. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.

Shohat, Ella, and Alsultany, Evelyn (eds.). Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2013.

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Contents

Guide to further reading

Modern Arab culture: introductory remarks

Chapter 1: The question of language

Chapter 2: Ethnic and religious minorities

Chapter 3: Nahda: the Arab project of enlightenment

Chapter 4: Law

Chapter 5: Poetry

Chapter 6: Narrative

Chapter 7: Music

Chapter 8: Cinema and television

Chapter 9: Theater

Chapter 10: Art

Chapter 11: Architecture

Chapter 12: Humor

Chapter 13: Folklore

Chapter 14: Food and cuisine

Chapter 15: Migration and diaspora

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