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" Auto/biography and the construction of identity and community in the Middle East "
edited by Mary Ann Fay.
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555172
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Mary Ann Fay
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Auto/biography and the construction of identity and community in the Middle East\ edited by Mary Ann Fay.
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1st ed
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New York: N.Y. Palgrave,, 2002.
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(x, 245 pages : illustrations
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0312219660
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: 1349621145
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: 9780312219666
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: 9781349621149
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: 9781349621163
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Biography as history : the exemplary life of Khayr al-Din al-Ramli / Judith E. Tucker -- The transmission of knowledge and the education of the ʻulama in late sixteenth Maghrib : a study of the biographical dictionary of Muhammad ibn Maryam / Osama Abi-Mershed -- Biography, autobiography, and identity in early modern Damascus / Steve Tamari -- Infamous women and famous wombs : biography, gender, and Islamist concepts of community in contemporary Egypt / Marilyn Booth -- Ideology, identity, and commitment in the autobiography of Khalid Mohieddin / Didier Monciaud -- Shawikar Qadin : woman of power and influence in Ottoman Cairo / Mary Ann Fay -- Looking for the modern : a biography of an Iraqi modernist / Dina Rizk Khoury -- The worlds of George Antonius : identity, culture, and the making of an Anglo-Arab in the pre-World War II Middle East/ William L. Cleveland -- Kulthum Auda : the forgotten Palestinian ethnographer / Garay Menicucci -- Between political epochs and personal lives : formative experiences of Egyptian women activists / Nadje S. Al-Ali -- Ambiguous borders, ambivalent subjects : being Sudanese in twentieth-century Egypt / Anita Häusermann Fábos -- The question of writing premodern biographies of the Middle East / Virginia Aksan -- Writing culture, writing lives : fictional boundaries / Cynthia Nelson --
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Ranging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including the notorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-centuryRanging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including the notorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-centuryRanging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including the notorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century",,,,"To create and in creating to be created:" reflections on the mixing of fiction and memoir in Lina : a portrait of Damascene girl and the house on Arnus Square / Samar Attar.",,"The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including theThe contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including thenotorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century Palestinian activist Kulthum Auda.The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including theThe contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including thenotorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century Palestinian activist Kulthum Auda.The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including theThe contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including thenotorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century Palestinian activist Kulthum Auda.Read less
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Biography; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Biographies
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Autobiography and the construction of identity and community in the Middle East
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