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American studies encounters the Middle East

Title
American studies encounters the Middle East [electronic resource] / edited by Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy.
ISBN
1469628864
9781469628868
9781469628844 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781469630137 (hardback : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Local Notes
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Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Global Cultural Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Middle Eastern Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: American studies encounters the Middle East / Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy
Diabolical enterprises and abominable superstitions: Islam and the conceptualization of finance in early American literature / Adam John Waterman
Salim the Algerine: the Muslim who strayed into colonial Virginia / Judith E. Tucker
"Race" and "blackness" in Moroccan rap: voicing local experiences of marginality / Cristina Moreno Almeida
Call and response, radical belonging, and Arabic hip-hop in "the West" / Rayya El Zein
The reception of U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution: between the popular and the official / Mounira Soliman
Arab Spring, American autumn / Brian T. Edwards
The uses of modernization theory: American foreign policy and mythmaking in the Arab world / Waleed Hazbun
Travelling law: targeted killing, lawfare, and the deconstruction of the battlefield / Craig Jones
Drone executions, urban surveillance, and the imperial gaze / Ashley Dawson
Technology's borders: the U.S., Palestine, and Egypt's digital connections / Helga Tawil-Souri
The counterrevolutionary year: the Arab Spring, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East / Osamah Khalil.
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