Minorities and the modern Arab world : new perspectives / edited by Laura Robson. - First edition. - vii, 318 pages ; 23 cm. - Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms . - Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms. .

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-300) and index.

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

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Minorities--Arab countries--Congresses.
Minorities.
Minderheit.


Arab countries.
Naher Osten.
Nordafrika.
Arabische Staaten.


Conference papers and proceedings.

DS36.9.A1 / M55 2016

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