Arab Cultural Studies

Mapping the Field
Herausgeber: Sabry, Tarik

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781848855595
• ISBN-10: 1848855591
• Artikelnr.: 33765389

Autorenporträt

Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and is co-editor if the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Tarik Sabry
Chapter 1
Cultural Criticism: Theory & Method
Abdullah Al Ghadhami
Chapter 2
The Saudi Modernity Wars According To 'Abdullah Al-Ghadhami: A Template for
the Study of Arab Culture and Media
Marwan Kraidy
Chapter 3
Arab Media Studies between the Legacy of a Thin Discipline
And the Promise of New Cultural Pathways
Mohamed Zayani
Chapter 4
Cultural Studies in Arab World Academic Communication Programmes
The Battle for Survival
Muhammad Ayish
Chapter 5
In search of the Great Absent: Cultural Studies in Arab Universities
Riadh Ferjani
Chapter 6
Resources, Creativity and Arab culture: Insights from a Political Economy
Approach
Naomi Sakr
Chapter 7
Language as culture: The question of Arabic
Atef al-Shaer
Chapter: 8
Rethinking the Arab State and Culture: Power, discourse and media in
contemporary Syria
Dina Matar
Chapter 9
The Necessary Politics of Palestinian Cultural Studies
Helga Tawil-Souri
Chapter 10
Rethinking Gender Studies in the Arab World: A Conceptual Intervention
Layal Ftouni
Chapter 11
Disarticulating Arab Popular Culture: The Case of Egyptian Comedies.
Iman Hamam
Chapter 12
Internationalizing a Media Studies degree in Arab Higher Education: A case
study arising from an agreement between New Zealand and Oman
Susan O'Rourke and Rosser Johnson
Chapter 13
Arab cultural studies: between re-territorialization and
de-territorialization
Tarik Sabry
Notes
Index