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Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

Autor Ussama Makdisi, Paul A. Silverstein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2006
The Middle East and North Africa form a region united by a common history of armed conflict and repeated international efforts at producing a lasting peace. This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between memories of past violence and the violence of present memories, the context for all contemporary efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation. The contributors examine the 1954–1962 Franco-Algerian war, the 1975–1991 Lebanese civil war, and the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict as interconnected struggles that outline national polities, infranational fractures, and transnational political connections. Insofar as national unity has been constructed on the contested claims of sacrifice and martyrdom, the legacy of violence has remained inscribed at the heart of political identity. The case studies point to the failure of current attempts to officially forget past conflicts, at the same time indicating local successes in commemorative actions that forge at least partial peaces between individuals and groups.Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies. He is author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon.Paul Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College and author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (IUP, 2004). He has conducted research in France, Algeria and Morocco and is a member of the editorial board of Middle East Report.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253217981
ISBN-10: 0253217989
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Recenzii

“. . . constitutes an important and much needed intervention on the themes of memory and violence in Middle East studies.” —Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara

Cuprins

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa Paul A. Silverstein and Ussama Makdisi
I. Violence and Sacrifice
1. A Death Revisited: Solidarity and Dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian Community Glenn Bowman
2. Martyrdom and Destiny: The Inscription and Imagination of Algerian History James McDougall
3. Patriotic Sacrifice and the Burden of Memory in Israeli Secular National Hebrew Culture Yael Zerubavel
II. Resolution and Reconciliation
4. Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre Shira Robinson
5. The Making and Unmaking of Memories: The Case of a Multi-Confessional Village in Lebanon Anja Peleikis
6. The Algerian War in French Memory: Vengeful Memory's Violence Benjamin Stora
III. Archaeology of Memory
7. Can the Subaltern Remember? A Pessimistic View of the Victims of Zionism Gabriel Piterberg
8. Beirut, a City without History? Saree Makdisi
9. Archaeology, Nationhood, and Settlement Nadia Abu El-Haj
Contributors
Index

Notă biografică

Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University.
Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.


Descriere

Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.