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English edition
Jul
2001
448 pp.
65 illus.
Paperback
15X23 cm
$24.50
LE 100.00
ISBN
978 977 424 607 4
For sale worldwide
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Colors of Enchantment
Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East
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Edited by
Sherifa Zuhur
Another successful compilation on the arts in the Middle East from the editor of Images of Enchantment
In this companion volume to the successful Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998), historian and ethnomusicologist Sherifa Zuhur has once again commissioned and edited authoritative essays from noteworthy scholars from around the globe that explore the visual and performing arts in the Middle East.
What differentiates this volume from its predecessor is its investigation of theater, from the early modern period to the contemporary. Topics include race and national identity in Egyptian theater, early writing in the Arab theater in North America, Persian-language theater from its origins through the twentieth century, Palestinian nationalist theater, and a survey of the work of noted Egyptian playwright Yusuf Idris. Other aspects of the arts are not neglected, of course, as further avenues of dance, music, and the visual arts are explored.
Marked by interesting and fresh perspectives, Colors of Enchantment is another vital contribution to scholarship on the arts of the Middle East.
Contributors: Najwa Adra, Wijdan Ali, Sami Asmar, Clarissa Burt, Michael Frishkopf, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Tori Haring-Smith, Kathleen Hood, Deborah Kapchan, Neil van der Linden, Samia Mehrez, Mona Mikhail, Sami A. Ofeish, ‘Ali Jihad Racy, Rashad Rida, Tonia Rifaey, Edward Said, Lori Anne Salem, Philip D. Schuyler, Selim Sednaoui, Reuven Snir, James Stone, Eve Troutt Powell, and Sherifa Zuhur.
SHERIFA ZUHUR was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley in 2000–2001. Her publications include Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt and Asmahan’s Secrets: Woman, War, and Song.
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