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Colors of enchantment : theater, dance, music and the visual arts of the Middle East /

"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 explo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zuhur, Sherifa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, [2001]
Edición:[International version].
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  • Revisiting the theater in Egypt : an overview / Mona Mikhail
  • Burnt-cork nationalism : race and identity in the theater of ʹAli al-Kassar / Eve M. Troutt Powell
  • The tears of a clown : Yusuf Idris and postrevolutionary Egyptian theater / Clarissa Burt
  • El-Warsha : theatrical experimentation and cultural preservation / Tori Haring-Smith
  • Persian plays and the Iranian theater / M.R. Ghanoonparvar
  • The Palestinian Hakawati Theater : a brief history / Reuven Snir
  • Performing depth : translating Moroccan culture in modern verse / Deborah Kapchan
  • Gender challenges to patriarchy : Wannus' Tuqus al-Isharat wa-l-Tahawalat / Sami A. Ofeish
  • From cultural authenticity to social relevance : the plays of Amin al-Rihani, Kahlil Gibran, and Karim Alrawi / Rashad Rida
  • Dance : a visual marker of Qabili identity in highland Yemen / Najwa Adra
  • Race, sexuality, and Arabs in American entertainment, 1850-1900 / Lori Anne Salem
  • Farewell to Tahia / Edward W. Said
  • Tarab ("Enchantment") in the mystic Sufi chant of Egypt / Michael Frishkopf
  • Musical stardom and male romance : Farid al-Atrash / Sherifa Zuhur
  • Modern Arab music : portraits of enchantment from the middle generation / Sami W. Asmar with Kathleen Hood
  • The classical Iraqi Maqam and its survival / Neil van der Linden
  • Musical attitudes and spoken language in pre-Civil War Beirut / ʹAli Jihad Racy
  • The Sheba River Valley dam : the reconstruction of architecture, history, and music in a Yemeni operetta / Philip D. Schuyler
  • Middle East peace through music : a diwan in Weimar / Selim Sednaoui
  • Modern painting in the Mashriq / Wijdan Ali
  • Visualizing identity : gender and nation in Egyptian cartoons / Tonia Rifaey and Sherifa Zuhur
  • Meditations on painting and history : interview with Huda Lutfi / Samia Mehrez and James Stone.