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Minorities and the modern Arab world : new perspectives / edited by Laura Robson

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Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
vii, 318 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Robson, Laura

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Conceptualizing Minorities -- 1. From Millet to Minority -- Another Look at the Non-Muslim Communities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Peter Sluglett -- 2. Across Confessional Borders -- Microhistory of Ottoman Christians and Their Migratory Paths / Jacob Norris -- 3. Becoming a Sectarian Minority -- Arab Christians in Twentieth-Century Palestine / Laura Robson -- 4. Egypt and Its Jews -- Specter of an Absent Minority / Joel Beinin -- pt. TWO Minorities, Nationalism, and Cultural "Authenticity" -- 5. When Anticolonialism Meets Antifascism -- Modern Jewish Intellectuals in Baghdad / Aline Schlaepfer -- 6. Assyrians and the Iraqi Communist Party -- Revolution, Urbanization, and the Quest for Equality / Alda Benjamen -- 7. Struggle over Egyptianness -- Case Study of the Nayruz Festival / Hiroko Miyokawa -- 8. From Minority to Majority -- Inscribing the Mahra and Touareg into the Arab Nation / Samuel Liebhaber -- pt. THREE Minorities in the Transnational Were -- 9. Tunisia's Minority Mosaic -- Constructing a National Narrative / David Bond -- 10. Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East -- Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine / Liora R. Halperin -- 11. Chaldean Church between Iraq and America -- Transnational Social Field Perspective / Yasmeen Hanoosh -- 12. Permanent Temporariness in Berlin -- Case of an Arab Muslim Minority in Germany / Lucia Volk.
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ISBN
9780815634522 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815634528 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815634331 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815634331 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
"This volume originated in a conference held at the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University in 2013, Minorities of the Modern Middle East."--Acknowledgments page.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-300) and index.
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