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Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East : the Case for Lebanon.

Since the West's very early flirtations with the modern Near East, and especially in the past 100 years of East-West relations, there has been considerable difficulty in understanding and defining the Middle East, the Arab world, pan-Arabism, Arab nationalism, and Middle Eastern identities in g...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salameh, Franck
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Since the West's very early flirtations with the modern Near East, and especially in the past 100 years of East-West relations, there has been considerable difficulty in understanding and defining the Middle East, the Arab world, pan-Arabism, Arab nationalism, and Middle Eastern identities in general. The Western impulse of conflating national identity with language, state, and ethnicity--often subsuming Arabic language into Arab ethnicity--has contributed to this misunderstanding and misreading of the region. For, while the Middle East can be accurately referred to by way of the generic "Arab w.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (319 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.
ISBN:9780739137406
0739137409
1282561502
9781282561502