Interpreting welfare and relief in the Middle East /

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Based on different problematic and methodological perspectives and sources, this book examines different involvements in welfare activities not only as contextualised in stable communities and nations, but also as they emerge in vulnerable states and disintegrating societies.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Naguib, Nefissa, 1960-, Okkenhaug, Inger Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East ; v. 103.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1850-2005.
Geschichte 1850-2005
Public welfare > Middle East.
Social service > Middle East.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Public welfare
Social service
Sozialhilfe
Välfärd > Mellanöstern.
Middle East
Naher Osten
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors; Introduction (Nefissa Naguib and Inger Marie Okkenhaug); Orphans and Abandoned Children in Modern Egypt (Beth Baron); A Nation of Widows and Orphans: Armenian Memories of Relief in Jerusalem (Nefi ssa Naguib); Women on a Mission! Scandinavian Welfare and the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905-1917 (Inger Marie Okkenhaug); Building Bonny Babies
  • Missionary Welfare Work in Cairo, 1920-1950 (Renate Lunde); Independent Women Missionaries in the Scottish School in Jaffa, 1918-1936: Identifying Subaltern Narratives (Michael Marten).

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