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English edition
Oct
1998
342 pp.
Paperback
14.5X23 cm
$24.50
LE 120.00
ISBN
978 977 424 467 4
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Images of Enchantment
Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East
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Edited by
Sherifa Zuhur
A wide-ranging, holistic, and multidisciplinary view of the dance, music, painting, and cinema of the Middle East
This original and multidimensional book brings a refreshing new approach to the study of the arts of the Middle East. By dealing in one volume with dance, music, painting, and cinema, as experienced and practiced not only within the Middle East but also abroad, Images of Enchantment breaks down the artificial distinctions—of form, geography, ‘high’ and ‘low’ art, performer and artist—that are so often used to delineate the subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture.
The eighteen essays in this book cover themes as diverse as Bedouin dance, the music of Arab Americans, cinema in Egypt and Iran, Hollywood representations of the Middle East, and contemporary Sudanese painting. The contributions come from scholars and critics and from the artists themselves. Together, they present a wide-ranging and holistic view of the arts in their social, political, anthropological, and gender contexts.
Contributors: Walter Armbrust, Farida Ben Lyazid, Kay Hardy Campbell, Virginia Danielson, Marjorie Franken, Sondra Hale, Carolee Kent, Hamid Naficy, Salwa Mikdadi Nashashibi, Anne K. Rasmussen, Selim Sednaoui, Simon Shaheen, Rebecca Stone, Chaïbia Talal, Karin Van Nieuwkerk, William Young, Sherifa Zuhur.
Sherifa Zuhur is an associate professor in the Department of History at the American University in Cairo and an associate professor in the Women’s Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of Revealing Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt.
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• Covers dance, music, painting, and cinema from across the region
• Deals with the arts of the region as they are experienced both within the Middle East and in the United States
• Contributions by scholars, critics, and the artists themselves
• Illustrated in full color
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