| Description |
1 online resource (x, 324 pages) : color illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Dar el Kutub no. 11371/97"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sherifa Zuhur -- Changing images and shifting identities : female performers in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Women's performance in ritual context : wedding among the Rashayda of Sudan / William Young -- Folk music and dance in the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia / Kay Hardy Campbell -- A procession through time: the Zaffat al-ʻarusa in three views -- Asmahan : Arab musical performance and musicianship under the myth / Sherifa Zuhur -- Performance, political identity, and memory : Umm Kulthum and Gamal ʻAbd al-Nasir / Virginia Danielson -- Western classical music in Umm Kulthum's country / Selim Sednaoui -- Music of Arab Americans : aesthetics and performance in a new land / Anne Rasmussen -- Beyond the performance / Simon Shaheen -- Gender and politics in contemporary art : Arab women empower the image / Salwa M. Nashashibi -- Artist's voice / Chaibia Talal -- Imagery and invention : Sudanese at home and in the world conversations with Mohamed Omer Bushara and Musa Khalifa / Sondra Hale -- Image and experience : why cinema? / Farida Ben Lyazid -- Victims or actors? centering women in Egyptian commercial film / Sherifa Zuhur -- Iranian cinema under the Islamic Republic / Hamid Naficy -- Reverse imagery : Middle Eastern themes in Hollywood / Rebecca Stone -- Farida Fahmy and the dancer's image in Egyptian film / Marjorie Franken -- Terrorism and Kabab : a Capraesque view of modern Egypt / Walter Armbrust. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts, Middle Eastern -- 20th century.
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Arts, Middle Eastern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zuhur, Sherifa.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Images of enchantment. Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, ©1998 9774244672 (DLC) 98961186 (OCoLC)40601327 |
| ISBN |
1417523166 (electronic book) |
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9781417523160 (electronic book) |
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