by
Barakat, Halim Isber.
Call Number
909.0974927 20
Publication Date
1993
Summary
This comprehensive survey of Arab society, culture, and political life draws on a unique blend of field research and literary and qualitative analysis. Particularly helpful is the authors ability to link historical issues of social diversity and integration with the contemporary imperative to buide a new civil society characterized by broad-based political participation of all Arabs.
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5.0728
by
Rejwan, Nissim.
Call Number
303.48217492701821 21
Publication Date
1998
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Electronic Resources
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0.3174
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by
Litvin, Margaret.
Call Number
822.33
Publication Date
2011
Summary
For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the ess.
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0.2673
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