Screen LibraryArabs in the mirror：images and self-images from pre-Islamic to modern times
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University of Texas Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Austin, Tex. |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 210 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780292717275 (cloth : alk. paper) 029271727X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780292717282 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0292717288 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | C955 |
| CLC: |
C955.371 K370.3 |
| Call Number: | C955.371/R381 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-203) and index. The bedouin, the camel, the sand, and the palm tree -- Identity and self-definition -- Ibn Khaldun's appraisal appraised -- "Arabizing the Arabs" -- Self-images old and new -- Calls for "critical self-analysis" -- Unity in diversity -- The quest for democracy -- Resources and development -- The social scene -- The case of Egypt -- The West's inroads -- The difference Israel has made new lessons for old -- The intellectuals -- Appendix : portraits in a mirror : three fictional versions. |