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Minorities and the Modern Arab World - New Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Minorities and the Modern Arab World - New Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
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In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic
media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given
way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply
divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays
gathered in Minorities and the Modern Arab World seek to challenge
this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in which
ethnic, religious, and linguistic commitments have intersected to
create ""minority"" communities in the modern era. Bringing
together the fields of history, political science, anthropology,
sociology, and linguistics, contributors provide fresh analyses of
the construction and evolution of minority identities around the
region. They examine how the category of ""minority"" became
meaningful only with the rise of the modern nation-state and find
that Middle Eastern minority nationalisms owe much of their modern
self-definition to developments within diaspora populations and
other transnational frameworks. The first volume to upend the
conceptual frame of reference for studying Middle Eastern minority
communities in nearly two decades, Minorities and the Modern Arab
World represents a major intervention in modern Middle East
studies.
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