Egypt in the Future Tense - Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence Before and After 2011

Informationen zum Autor Samuli Schielke is a research fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and an external lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. He is author of The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt , and editor (with Knut Graw) of The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East and (with Liza Debevec) of Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion . Klappentext Samuli Schielke is a research fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and an external lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. He is author of The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt, and editor (with Knut Graw) of The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East and (with Liza Debevec) of Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A moment in history 1. Boredom and frustration 2. An hour for your heart and an hour for your Lord 3. Knowing Islam 4. Love troubles 5. Capitalist ethics? 6. I want to be committed 7. Engaging the world 8. Condition: normal 9. Those who said No Conclusion: On freedom, destiny, and consequences

Product details

• Authors: Joska Samuli Schielke, Samuli Schielke, Schielke Samuli
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9780253015877
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01587-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Public Cultures of the Middle; Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories