Ebook: Autobiography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East
Author: Mary Ann Fay
- Tags: Middle East -- Biography -- History and criticism, Middle East -- Biography, Women -- Middle East -- Biography -- History and criticism, Women -- Middle East -- Biography, Femmes -- Moyen-Orient -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique, Femmes -- Moyen-Orient -- Biographies, Moyen-Orient -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique, Moyen-Orient -- Biographies, Biography, Women, Middle East, Nationale identiteit, Autobiografieën, Oriente Medio -- Biografías -- Historía y crítica, Oriente Medio -- Biografías
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Palgrave
- City: Array, Moyen-Orient
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
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Ranging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including the notorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century Read more...