Struggle And Survival In The Modern Middle East

by Burke, Edmund, III

• ISBN13: 9780520246614
• ISBN10: 0520246616
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history--depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East--from Morocco to Afghanistan--in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern Middle Eastern history "from the bottom up." Spanning the past 160-plus years and reflecting important transformations, these stories challenge elite-centered accounts of what has occurred in the Middle East and illuminate the previously hidden corners of a largely unrecorded world.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Middle Eastern Societies and Ordinary People's Lives	1	(34)
Edmund Burke, III
David N. Yaghoubian
PART ONE. PRECOLONIAL LIVES
Assaf: A Peasant of Mount Lebanon	35	(13)
Akram F. Khater
Antoine F. Khater
Shemsigul: A Circassian Slave in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo	48	(16)
Ehud R. Toledano
Journeymen Textile Weavers in Nineteenth-Century Damascus: A Collective Biography	64	(16)
Sherry Vatter
Ahmad: A Kuwaiti Pearl Diver	80	(9)
Nels Johnson
Mohand N'Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber	89	(14)
Edmund Burke, III
Bibi Maryam: A Bakhtiyari Tribal Woman	103	(16)
Julie Oehler
PART TWO. COLONIAL LIVES
The Shaykh and His Daughter: Coping in Colonial Algeria	119	(18)
Julia Clancy-Smith
Izz al-Din al-Qassam: Preacher and Mujahid	137	(15)
Abdullah Schleifer
Abu Ali al-Kilawi: A Damascus Qabaday	152	(12)
Philip S. Khoury
M'hamed Ali: Tunisian Labor Organizer	164	(14)
Eqbal Ahmad
Stuart Schaar
Hagob Hagobian: An Armenian Truck Driver in Iran	178	(9)
David N. Yaghoubian
Naji: An Iraqi Country Doctor	187	(18)
Sami Zubaida
PART THREE. POSTCOLONIAL LIVES
Migdim: Egyptian Bedouin Matriarch	205	(18)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Rostam: Qashqa'i Rebel	223	(14)
Lois Beck
An Iranian Village Boyhood	237	(16)
Mehdi Abedi
Michael M. J. Fischer
Gulab: An Afghan Schoolteacher	253	(15)
Ashraf Ghani
Abu Jamal: A Palestinian Urban Villager	268	(13)
Joost Hiltermann
Haddou: A Moroccan Migrant Worker	281	(20)
David McMurray
PART FOUR. CONTEMPORARY LIVES
Nasir: Sa'idi Youth Between Islamism and Agriculture	301	(18)
Fanny Colonna
Ghada: Village Rebel or Political Protestor?	319	(20)
Celia Rothenberg
Khanom Gohary: Iranian Community Leader	339	(27)
Homa Hoodfar
Nadia: ``Mother of the Believers''	366	(21)
Baya Gacemi
June Leavitt: West Bank Settler	387	(18)
Tamara Neuman
Talal Rizk: A Syrian Engineer in the Gulf	405	(16)
Michael Provence
Glossary	421	(4)
List of Contributors	425