Mountain against the sea, essays on Palestinian society and culture, Salim Tamari
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Mountain against the sea, essays on Palestinian society and culture, Salim Tamari
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Mountain against the sea
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bibliography
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Salim Tamari
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essays on Palestinian society and culture
Table Of Contents
Introduction : Palestine's conflictual modernity -- The mountain against the sea? -- Cultural wars of the eastern Mediterranean -- From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna : small towns and social control -- Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city -- A musician's lot : the Jawhariyyeh memoirs as a key to Jerusalem's early modernity -- Lepers, lunatics, and saints : the nativist ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and his circle -- Sultana and Khalil : the origins of romantic love in Palestine -- The last feudal lord -- Ishaq Shami and the predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine -- The enigmatic bolshevik from the Holy city -- The vagabond caf's and Jerusalem's prince of idleness
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