Arab Islamic Voices Agencies And Abilities

Author : Saloua Ali Ben Zahra
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498569583

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Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities by Saloua Ali Ben Zahra Pdf

This book explores portrayals and predicaments of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture including Francophone Moroccan and Algerian fiction, Egyptian Middle Eastern film, as well as Tunisian song and television. In line with theorists Aijaz Ahmad and Ato Quayson’s objection to reading Third World literature as “national allegory,” The author argues that rather than being metaphors or allegories, disabled characters represent persons with disabilities in their culture and act as a mirror upon their changing societies. Contemporary Maghrebians and Muslims with disabilities find themselves at an intersection of conflicting and competing cultures, their native Islamic culture and Westernizing lifestyles. In the rush to import everything Western, despite humanitarian Islamic teachings regarding the disabled, are often abandoned. In situations of fundamentalist menace, the disabled, who tend to be the most vulnerable and abused fraction of Arab/Muslim society, suffer the worst, especially women.

Author : Toyin Falola,Nic Hamel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781580469715

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Disability in Africa by Toyin Falola,Nic Hamel Pdf

Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

Author : Marchella Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009372756

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Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres by Marchella Ward Pdf

The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture – nowhere more so than in the myths, stereotypes and tropes around blindness. To be 'blind' has never referred solely to the inability to see. Instead blindness has been used as shorthand for, among other things, a lack of understanding, immorality, closeness to death, special insight or second sight. Although these 'meanings' attached to blindness were established as early as antiquity, readers, receivers and spectators into the present have been implicated in the stereotypes, which persist because audiences can be relied on to perpetuate them. This book argues for a new way of seeing – and of understanding classical reception - by offering assemblage-thinking as an alternative to the presumed passivity of classical influence. And the theatre, which has been (incorrectly) assumed to be principally a visual medium, is the ideal space in which to investigate new ways of seeing.

Author : Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624052

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Play Among Books by Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81 Pdf

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Mark Nartey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000851809

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Voice, Agency and Resistance by Mark Nartey Pdf

Drawing on data from Africa, Latin America, North America, and the Arab Levant, this book demonstrates how members of marginalized (disempowered) groups sculpt a positive image for themselves, engage in solidarity formation for group empowerment, and (re)construct their experiences in a manner that gives them voice, agency, and a positive identity. It argues for a more interventionist stance in ideologically oriented discourse analysis and demonstrates why (critical) discourse analysts must not only expose and resist the inequities or injustices in society but, more crucially, also adopt an activist-scholar posture in order to push for positive social change. The book brings into focus: (a) how discourse can be used to center the voice and agency of minority groups, (b) how feminists re-make gender relations in our world, (c) how non-dominant groups actively resist injustices and discriminatory discourses directed against them, (d) how discourse can be used to advance the goals of repressed groups in order to instigate progressive social change, and (e) access to forms of discourse that can be empowering for marginalized groups’ participation in social domains. It will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics in (critical) discourse studies, communication, and media studies as well as non-academics such as activists, journalists, and sociopolitical commentators. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004517035

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Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.

Author : Erdoan A. Shipoli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319711119

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Islam, Securitization, and US Foreign Policy by Erdoan A. Shipoli Pdf

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W. Bush administration when it was increasingly portrayed as the ultimate “other.” This securitization was realized through the association of Islam with unique security threats in speeches of foreign policy and national security. By analyzing the four recent US presidents’ discourses on Islam, this work sheds light on how they viewed Islam and addresses the following questions: How do we talk about Islam, its place and relationship within the context of US security? How does the language we use to describe Islam influence the way we imagine it? How is Islam constructed as a security issue?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050275887

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Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2003 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Leslie A. Pal,M. Evren Tok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319925615

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Global Governance and Muslim Organizations by Leslie A. Pal,M. Evren Tok Pdf

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, represented on the world stage by 57 states, as well as a host of international organizations and associations. This book critically examines the engagement of these states in systems of global governance and with a variety of policy regimes, including climate change, energy, migration, humanitarian aid, international financial institutions, research and education. Chapters explore the dynamics of this engagement, the contributions to global order, the interests pursued and some of the contradictions and tensions within the Islamic world, and between that world and the ‘West’. An in-depth perspective is provided about the traditional and new forms of multilateralism and the policy spaces formed which provide new opportunities for the Muslim and non-Muslim world alike.

Author : Marc Lynch
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231134484

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Voices of the New Arab Public by Marc Lynch Pdf

Explores the impact the Al-Jazeer and other satellite television stations have had on Arab politics over the last decade, discussing how these new Arab medias have encouraged open debate about Iraq, Palestine, Islamism, Arab identity, and other key political and social issues.

Author : Madelaine Hron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442693241

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Translating Pain by Madelaine Hron Pdf

In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Pain fills this gap by examining literature from Muslim North Africa, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe to reveal the representation of immigrant suffering in fiction. Applying immigrant psychology to literary analysis, Madelaine Hron examines the ways in which different forms of physical and psychological pain are expressed in a wide variety of texts. She juxtaposes post-colonial and post-communist concerns about immigration, and contrasts Muslim world views with those of Caribbean creolité and post-Cold War ethics. Demonstrating how pain is translated into literature, she explores the ways in which it also shapes narrative, culture, history, and politics. A compelling and accessible study, Translating Pain is a groundbreaking work of literary and postcolonial studies.

Author : Kristina Richardson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748645084

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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World by Kristina Richardson Pdf

Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights', as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life.

Author : Juris Pupcenoks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317426318

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Western Muslims and Conflicts Abroad by Juris Pupcenoks Pdf

This book explains why reactive conflict spillovers (political violence in response to conflicts abroad) occur in some migrant-background communities in the West. Based on survey data, statistical datasets, more than sixty interviews with Muslim community leaders and activists, ethnographic research in London and Detroit, and open-source data, this book develops a theoretical explanation for how both differences in government policies and features of migrant-background communities interact to influence the nature of foreign-policy focused activism in migrant communities. Utilizing rigorous, mixed-methods case study analysis, the author comparatively analyses the reactions of the Pakistani community in London and the Arab Muslim community in Detroit to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq during the decade following 9/11. Both communities are politically mobilized and active. However, while London has experienced reactive conflict spillover, Detroit has remained largely peaceful. The key findings show that, with regards to activism in response to foreign policy events, Western Muslim communities primarily politically mobilize on the basis of their ethnic divisions. Nevertheless, one notable exception is the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is viewed through the Islamic lenses; and the common Islamic identity is important in driving mobilization domestically in response to Islamophobia, and counterterrorism policies and practices perceived to be discriminatory. Certain organizational arrangements involving minority community leaders, law enforcement, and government officials help to effectively contain excitable youth who may otherwise engage in deviant behavior. Overall, the following factors contribute to the creation of an environment where reactive conflict spillover is more likely to occur: policies allowing immigration of violent radicals, poor economic integration without extensive civil society inter-group ties, the presence of radical groups, and connections with radical networks abroad.

Author : Noha Mellor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351628051

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Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood by Noha Mellor Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Unpacking the Brotherhood brand -- 2 The undisputed leader -- 3 Networks and opportunities -- 4 Voice of the Brotherhood -- Part II -- 5 Branding the movement (1928-1938) -- 6 Bargaining politics (1938-1948) -- 7 Fragmentation stage (1949-1971) -- Part III -- 8 Resuscitating the brand (1971-1995) -- 9 Soul-searching stage (1996-2010) -- 10 The last bargain (2011-2013) -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

Author : Patrick D. Bowen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004300699

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A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1 by Patrick D. Bowen Pdf

In A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975, Patrick D. Bowen offers an account of white Muslims and Sufis and the movements they produced between 1800 and 1975.