Author: Maha M. Abdelrahman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From the politics of food to images in the media, this double issue of Cairo Papers in Social Science focuses on a wide array of emerging cultural patterns in modern-day Egypt and their social, political, and economic ramifications. All the contributions are based on papers delivered at the Cairo Papers Thirteenth Annual Symposium in May 2004, and cover four broad areas: media and language, Islamic marketing, taste and public space, and food and markets. Contributors include Ray Bush ('Staying Hungry: Food Politics in Egypt and the Near East'), Sami Zubaida ('Food: Egypt and the Middle East'), Lilia Labidi ('Truth Claims in the Cartoon World of Nagui Kamel'), Madiha Doss ('Cultural Dynamics and Linguistic Practice in Contemporary Egypt'), Huda Lutfi ('Mulid Culture in Cairo: The Case of al-Sayyida A'isha'), Maha Abdelrahman ('Divine Consumption: Islamic Goods in Egypt'), Iman A. Hamdy ('Watch for the Devil: Israel in Egyptian Movies and Soap Operas'), Malak S. Rouchdy ('Food Recipes and the Kitchen Space: The Construction of Social Identities and New Frontiers'), and Reem Saad ('Transforming the Meaning and Value of Traditional Crafts in Egypt'). Cairo Papers Vol. 27, nos. 1 & 2.
Cultural Dynamics in Contemporary Egypt
Author: Maha M. Abdelrahman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From the politics of food to images in the media, this double issue of Cairo Papers in Social Science focuses on a wide array of emerging cultural patterns in modern-day Egypt and their social, political, and economic ramifications. All the contributions are based on papers delivered at the Cairo Papers Thirteenth Annual Symposium in May 2004, and cover four broad areas: media and language, Islamic marketing, taste and public space, and food and markets. Contributors include Ray Bush ('Staying Hungry: Food Politics in Egypt and the Near East'), Sami Zubaida ('Food: Egypt and the Middle East'), Lilia Labidi ('Truth Claims in the Cartoon World of Nagui Kamel'), Madiha Doss ('Cultural Dynamics and Linguistic Practice in Contemporary Egypt'), Huda Lutfi ('Mulid Culture in Cairo: The Case of al-Sayyida A'isha'), Maha Abdelrahman ('Divine Consumption: Islamic Goods in Egypt'), Iman A. Hamdy ('Watch for the Devil: Israel in Egyptian Movies and Soap Operas'), Malak S. Rouchdy ('Food Recipes and the Kitchen Space: The Construction of Social Identities and New Frontiers'), and Reem Saad ('Transforming the Meaning and Value of Traditional Crafts in Egypt'). Cairo Papers Vol. 27, nos. 1 & 2.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From the politics of food to images in the media, this double issue of Cairo Papers in Social Science focuses on a wide array of emerging cultural patterns in modern-day Egypt and their social, political, and economic ramifications. All the contributions are based on papers delivered at the Cairo Papers Thirteenth Annual Symposium in May 2004, and cover four broad areas: media and language, Islamic marketing, taste and public space, and food and markets. Contributors include Ray Bush ('Staying Hungry: Food Politics in Egypt and the Near East'), Sami Zubaida ('Food: Egypt and the Middle East'), Lilia Labidi ('Truth Claims in the Cartoon World of Nagui Kamel'), Madiha Doss ('Cultural Dynamics and Linguistic Practice in Contemporary Egypt'), Huda Lutfi ('Mulid Culture in Cairo: The Case of al-Sayyida A'isha'), Maha Abdelrahman ('Divine Consumption: Islamic Goods in Egypt'), Iman A. Hamdy ('Watch for the Devil: Israel in Egyptian Movies and Soap Operas'), Malak S. Rouchdy ('Food Recipes and the Kitchen Space: The Construction of Social Identities and New Frontiers'), and Reem Saad ('Transforming the Meaning and Value of Traditional Crafts in Egypt'). Cairo Papers Vol. 27, nos. 1 & 2.
State and Industrial Capitalism in Egypt
Author: سليمان، سامر
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In contrast to the conventional wisdom of the political economy of modern Egypt, this study contends that the Egyptian capitalist class is not a ''parasitic'' class, and challenges the view that the Egyptian state is merely a tool in the hands of the bourgeoisie.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In contrast to the conventional wisdom of the political economy of modern Egypt, this study contends that the Egyptian capitalist class is not a ''parasitic'' class, and challenges the view that the Egyptian state is merely a tool in the hands of the bourgeoisie.
Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889369305
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889369305
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Egypt's Culture Wars
Author: Samia Mehrez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134109520
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of questions about the relationship between the cultural and political fields in Egypt.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134109520
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of questions about the relationship between the cultural and political fields in Egypt.
The New Arab Social Order
Author: Saad E. Ibrahim
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000303829
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The skyrocketing Arab oil revenues of the 1970s have triggered tremendous socioeconomic forces in the Arab world. Observers have extensively studied the financial and geopolitical aspects of Arab oil, but generally have ignored the human and social repercussions stimulated by the oil wealth. This book challenges the commonly accepted view of the im
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000303829
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The skyrocketing Arab oil revenues of the 1970s have triggered tremendous socioeconomic forces in the Arab world. Observers have extensively studied the financial and geopolitical aspects of Arab oil, but generally have ignored the human and social repercussions stimulated by the oil wealth. This book challenges the commonly accepted view of the im
Rethinking Islamist Politics
Author: Salwa Ismail
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857731327
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues. In the process, it has been misrepresented. Contrary to what many believe, Islamist movements are characterised by their diversity. Revisiting the main arguments and explanations that have been used over the past twenty years to understand Islamist activism, moderate as well as militant, Salwa Ismail here proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. The phenomenon of political Islam is determined by macro and micro-level changes in the Muslim world, such as the retreat of the welfare state across the Middle East, and the subsequent expansion in the role of informal political activists in the popular neighbourhoods of such cities as Algiers or Cairo. Ismail examines both levels to explain the socio-economic and political settings out of which Islamism has developed. Her focus is both the economic and political environments that fomented Islamism, and the structures of Islamist movements themselves (from their ideologies to their modes of action). Looking at Islamism as a form of contestation politics, Ismail offers a reassessment of its failures and successes - limited, as it is, by its use of violence, but capable of real mobilisation at a popular level. "Rethinking Islamist Politics" will be vital reading for anyone seeking to understand such spectacular expressions of Islamism as the September 11th attacks, but also the everyday struggles of ordinary people which Islamism embodies.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857731327
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues. In the process, it has been misrepresented. Contrary to what many believe, Islamist movements are characterised by their diversity. Revisiting the main arguments and explanations that have been used over the past twenty years to understand Islamist activism, moderate as well as militant, Salwa Ismail here proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics. The phenomenon of political Islam is determined by macro and micro-level changes in the Muslim world, such as the retreat of the welfare state across the Middle East, and the subsequent expansion in the role of informal political activists in the popular neighbourhoods of such cities as Algiers or Cairo. Ismail examines both levels to explain the socio-economic and political settings out of which Islamism has developed. Her focus is both the economic and political environments that fomented Islamism, and the structures of Islamist movements themselves (from their ideologies to their modes of action). Looking at Islamism as a form of contestation politics, Ismail offers a reassessment of its failures and successes - limited, as it is, by its use of violence, but capable of real mobilisation at a popular level. "Rethinking Islamist Politics" will be vital reading for anyone seeking to understand such spectacular expressions of Islamism as the September 11th attacks, but also the everyday struggles of ordinary people which Islamism embodies.
Islam, Liberalism and Human Rights
Author: Katerina Dalacoura
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857713817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies. Katerina Dalacoura's argument proceeds at two levels. Firstly, it reaches a consistent normative position on the question of human rights. Secondly, the theoretical argument is reinforced through a detailed study both of the precepts of Islam and the role of Islam in the political process of 20th century Egypt and Tunisia. Dalacoura demonstrates that the interpretation of Islam in relation to human rights principles is not static, but is subject to reformulation.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857713817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies. Katerina Dalacoura's argument proceeds at two levels. Firstly, it reaches a consistent normative position on the question of human rights. Secondly, the theoretical argument is reinforced through a detailed study both of the precepts of Islam and the role of Islam in the political process of 20th century Egypt and Tunisia. Dalacoura demonstrates that the interpretation of Islam in relation to human rights principles is not static, but is subject to reformulation.
Medical Doctors
Author: El-Mehairy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004491023
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004491023
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Education and Social Change in Egypt and Turkey
Author: Bill Williamson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349084999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349084999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A Poetics of Political Economy in Egypt
Author: Kristin Koptiuch
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Original in perspective, innovative in approach, this book investigates the changing relationship between Egypt's urban artisanry and the larger socio-historical transformations of the Egyptian economy. Focusing on two key historical periods in the early and late twentieth century, Kristin Koptiuch examines the political and economic conditions that affected the role of the artisan in Egypt over time. She is particularly interested in how the politics of representation in different modes of discourse -- colonialist, nationalist, developmentalist, ethnographic -- have alternatively cast Egypt's craft production as outmoded artisanry and as an ingenious, micro-entrepreneurial "informal sector." In light of the artisans' changing relation to the national and global economy, Koptiuch reads this figurative shift from "artisanry" to "informal sector" as a political allegory that contradicts the dominant narratives of Egypt's colonial modernity and neocolonial postmodernity. Attention to this allegorical figuration discloses what Koptiuch calls a poetics of political economy. Contrary to conventional positivist social science, realist ethnography, and empiricist history, this approach acknowledges the intricate mutual workings of meaning and material culture.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Original in perspective, innovative in approach, this book investigates the changing relationship between Egypt's urban artisanry and the larger socio-historical transformations of the Egyptian economy. Focusing on two key historical periods in the early and late twentieth century, Kristin Koptiuch examines the political and economic conditions that affected the role of the artisan in Egypt over time. She is particularly interested in how the politics of representation in different modes of discourse -- colonialist, nationalist, developmentalist, ethnographic -- have alternatively cast Egypt's craft production as outmoded artisanry and as an ingenious, micro-entrepreneurial "informal sector." In light of the artisans' changing relation to the national and global economy, Koptiuch reads this figurative shift from "artisanry" to "informal sector" as a political allegory that contradicts the dominant narratives of Egypt's colonial modernity and neocolonial postmodernity. Attention to this allegorical figuration discloses what Koptiuch calls a poetics of political economy. Contrary to conventional positivist social science, realist ethnography, and empiricist history, this approach acknowledges the intricate mutual workings of meaning and material culture.