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Struggle and survival in the modern Middle East
2006, University of California Press
in English - 2nd ed.
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2005, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives / Edmund Burke III and David N. Yaghoubian
Precolonial lives
Assaf: a peasant of Mount Lebanon / Akram F. Khater and Antoine F. Khater
Shemsigul: a circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Ehud R. Toledano
Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus: a collective / Sherry Vatter
Ahmad: a Kuwaiti pearl diver / Nels Johnson
Mohand N'Hamoucha: middle atlas berber / Edmund Burke III
Bibi Maryam: a Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Julie Oehler
Colonial lives
The Shaykh and his daughter: coping in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith
Izz al-Din al-Qassam: preacher and mujahid / Abdullah Schleifer
Abu Ali al-Kilawi: a Damascus qabaday / Philip S. Khoury
M'hamed Ali: Tunisian labor organizer / Eqbal Ahmad and Stuart Schaar
Hagob Hagobian: an Armenian truck driver in Iran / David N. Yaghoubian
Naji: an Iraqi country doctor / Sami Zubaida
Post-Colonial lives
Migdim: Egyptian bedouin matriarch / Lila Abu-Lughod
Rostam: Qashqai rebel / Lois Beck
An Iranian village boyhood / Mehdi Abedi and Michael M.{ths}J. Fischer
Gulab: an Afghan schoolteacher / Ashraf Ghani
Abu Jamal: a Palestinian urban villager / Joost Hiltermann
Haddou: a Moroccan migrant worker / David Mcmurray
Contemporary lives
Nasir: Sa'idi youth between Islamism and agriculture
Fanny colonna
Ghada: village rebel or political protestor? / Celia Rothenberg
Khanom gohary: Iranian community leader / Homa Hoodfar
Nadia: "mother of the believers" / Baya Gacemi
June leavitt: West Bank settler / Tamara neuman
Talal Rizk: a Syrian engineer in the Gulf / Michael Provence.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Berkeley
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
920.056, B
Library of Congress
CT1866 .S77 2006, 2005005762

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
426

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3394634M
Internet Archive
strugglesurvival0000unse_t3w2
ISBN 10
0520246616
LCCN
2005005762
OCLC/WorldCat
58729228
Goodreads
89495

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