Popular culture in the Arab World : arts, politics, and the media /
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| Language: | English |
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Cairo :
American University in Cairo Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Culture and politics in the Arab world today
- The Arabic language : the key to Arab identity
- Popular religion : where 1001 Islams converge
- Arab consumer culture : the packaging of people and places
- Arab cinema and the dream of modernization
- From Umm Kalthum to Arabpop
- The belly dance : a reinvented Arab groove
- Television : from media mobilization to satellite revolution
- The trials and tribulations of the Arabic press
- Arab theater : the struggle for high culture.