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Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East by Claudia Ghrawi; Dina Rizk Khoury; Nelida Fuccaro; James E Baldwin; Lauren Banko; Nora Lafi; Orit Bashkin; Rasmus Christian Elling; Ulrike Freitag; Yasser Elsheshtawy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East about?

This book explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. Violence and the city coexist in a complicated dialogue, and critical consideration of the city offers an important way to understand the transformative powers of violence—its ability to redraw the boundaries of urban life, to create and divide communities, and to affect the ruling strategies of local elites, governments, and transnational political players. The essays included in this volume reflect the diversity of Middle Eastern urbanism from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, from the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad to the provincial towns of Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and the oil settlements of Dhahran and Abadan. In reconstructing the violent pasts of cities, new vistas on modern Middle Eastern history are opened, offering alternative and complementary perspectives to the making and unmaking of empires, nations, and states. Given the crucial importance of urban centers in shaping the Middle East in the modern era, and the ongoing potential of public histories to foster dial

Who reads Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East?

Author

Claudia Ghrawi; Dina Rizk Khoury; Nelida Fuccaro; James E Baldwin; Lauren Banko; Nora Lafi; Orit Bashkin; Rasmus Christian Elling; Ulrike Freitag; Yasser Elsheshtawy

Publisher

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804797528

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Social Science