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Dissident Syria : making oppositional arts official / Miriam Cooke.
Publication details: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780822340164 (hbk.) :
- 082234016X (hbk.) :
- DS94.6 .C66 2007
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere -- Freedom and democracy -- Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri -- No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa -- Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice -- Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul / -- Historical miniatures -- Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams -- Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state -- Leaving Damascus -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | DS 94.6 .C66 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 600807 |
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| DS 93 .S56 2018 The history of Syria / | DS 94 .S9 2000 Syria & Lebanon | DS 94.6 .C65 2017 Dancing in Damascus : creativity, resilience, and the Syrian revolution / | DS 94.6 .C66 2007 Dissident Syria : making oppositional arts official / | DS 94.8 .K8 A45 2014 Kurds of syria : political parties and identity in the middle east. | DS 94.9 .C66 2004 Historical dictionary of Syria / | DS 95 .T5 1969 A modern history of Syria, including Lebanon and Palestine |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere -- Freedom and democracy -- Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri -- No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa -- Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice -- Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul / -- Historical miniatures -- Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams -- Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state -- Leaving Damascus -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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