Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture

An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.

List of contents

Chronology; Modern Arab culture: introductory remarks Dwight F. Reynolds; 1. The question of language Kristen Brustad; 2. Religious and ethnic minorities Andrew D. Magnusson; 3. Nahda: the Arab project of enlightenment Yoav Di-Capua; 4. Law Joseph E. Lowry; 5. Poetry Shawkat M. Toorawa; 6. Narrative Mushin Al-Musawi; 7. Music Scott Marcus; 8. Cinema and television Andrew Hammond; 9. Theatre Dina Amin; 10. Art Nuha N. N. Khoury; 11. Architecture Nasser Rabbat; 12. Humour Devin Stewart; 13. Folklore Dwight F. Reynolds; 14. Food and cuisine Juan E. Campo and Magda Campo; 15. Migration and diaspora Christina Civantos; Glossary; Guide to further reading; Index.

About the author

Dwight F. Reynolds is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995), Arab Folklore: A Handbook (2007), co-author and editor of Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (2001), and co-editor of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6: The Middle East (2002).

Summary

This in-depth survey provides an accessible account of modern Arab culture. Bringing together essays from leading international scholars, it covers many rarely explored topics, including poetry, narrative, theatre, cinema and television, art, architecture, humour, folklore, and food, and corrects negative stereotypes about the modern Arab world.

Product details

• Authors: Dwight F. Reynolds, Dwight F. (University of California Reynolds
• Assisted by: Dwight F. Reynolds (Editor), Dwight F. (University of California Reynolds (Editor), Reynolds Dwight F. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2015
• EAN: 9780521898072
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89807-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Culture; Cambridge Companions to Culture; Cambridge Companions to Cultur
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Society & culture: general, Middle East, Theatre Studies, North Africa