The Arab World

by FERNEA, ELIZABETH WARNOCKFERNEA, ROBERT A.

• ISBN13: 9780385485203
• ISBN10: 0385485204
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1997-06-16
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winningThe Arab World: Personal Encounters, vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, to name just a few. Which is why the Ferneas, leading scholars in Middle Eastern studies, felt a need to return to the same towns and cities they had written about previously-to see how these changes had affected the region and the people who live in it. The authors reveal the human face of the Arab World as they revisit and talk with newsmakers and colleagues, old friends and new. Their forty years of experience in the region help illuminate the human consequences of changes all too often discussed in abstractions and generalizations: the military conflicts, new urbanization, labor migration, religious revival, as well as radical changes in the roles of men, women, and the family. With new chapters on Baghdad, Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, Marrakech, and Cairo, this new edition ofThe Arab Worldwill strengthen its reputation as a book "which should be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the Middle East" (The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs).

Table of Contents

Preface/Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Introduction	xv
I Lebanon	3	(70)
1. Beirut, 1956	3	(5)
2. Beirut, 1981	8	(25)
3. COMMENT: Lebanon as Ideal Compromise	33	(3)
4. Beirut, 1995	36	(29)
5. COMMENT: Unity and Diversity in Islam	65	(8)
II Jordan	73	(52)
1. Amman, 1981	73	(15)
2. COMMENT: Colonialism East and West	88	(8)
3. Amman, 1996	96	(22)
4. COMMENT: Arab Leadership	118	(7)
III Morocco	125	(88)
1. Marrakech, 1971, 1976	125	(20)
2. Marrakech, 1982	145	(25)
3. COMMENT: The Business of Markets	170	(7)
4. Marrakech, 1993	177	(30)
5. COMMENT: The Idea of the Family in the Arab World	207	(6)
IV Egypt	213	(138)
1. Egypt and Nubia, 1959	213	(27)
2. COMMENT: Domestication of the Nile	240	(3)
3. Egypt and Nubia, 1981	243	(57)
4. COMMENT: Labor Migration, Old and New Styles	300	(5)
5. Egypt and Nubia, 1996	305	(37)
6. COMMENT: Nubia Now That the Future Is the Past	342	(9)
V Saudi Arabia	351	(36)
1. Hail, 1983	351	(26)
2. COMMENT: The Anthropologist in the Field	377	(5)
3. Postscript, 1996	382	(5)
VI Israel and the West Bank	387	(60)
1. The West Bank, 1983	387	(17)
2. The West Bank, 1991, 1994	404	(34)
3. COMMENT: Religious Fundamentalism	438	(4)
4. Postscript, 1996	442	(5)
VII Iraq	447	(92)
1. Baghdad and Al-Nahra, 1956, 1983	447	(17)
2. COMMENT: The Bodies Politic	464	(6)
3. Baghdad and Al-Nahra, 1996	470	(59)
CONCLUSION: The End of Patriarchy?	529	(10)
Index	539	(13)
Permissions	552