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Diasporas of the modern Middle East : contextualising community /

Explores the changing conceptions and practice of diaspora in the modern Middle East Approaching the Middle East through the lens of Diaspora Studies, the 11 detailed case studies in this volume explore the experiences of different diasporic communities in and of the region, and look at the changing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gorman, Anthony, 1959- (Editor ), Kasbarian, Sossie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Post-Ottoman reconfigurations. Model citizens or a fifth column? Greek Orthodox (Rum) communities in Syria and Turkey between secularism and multiculturalism / Haris Theodorelis-Rigas
  • Muhammad Farid: between nationalism and the Egyptian-Ottoman diaspora / Ehud R. Toledano
  • Evolution of a North Caucasian community in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey: the case of Anatolian Ossetians / Georgy Chochiev
  • The Italians of Egypt: return to diaspora / Anthony Gorman
  • II. Exile, 'return' and resistance. Diaspora tourism and identity: subversion and consolation in Armenian pilgrimages to eastern Turkey / Zeynep Turan and Anny Bakalian
  • Stories of identity and resistance: Palestinian women outside the homeland / Maria Holt
  • III. Community in host states- establishing new homes. The 'others' within: the Armenian community in Cyprus / Sossie Kasbarian
  • Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: worthy lives in unworthy conditions / May Farah
  • IV. New diasporas. Malayalee migrants and translocal Kerala politics in the Gulf: re-conceptualising the 'political' / M.H. Ilias
  • Diaspora, immobility and the experience of waiting: young Iraqi refugees in Cairo / Elisa Pascucci
  • Home in Lebanese diaspora literature / Jumana Bayeh.