The State of the Arts in the Middle East (2009) (The Middle East Institute Viewpoints)

Cover......Page 1
Middle East Institute......Page 2
Viewpoints Special Edition The State of the Arts in the Middle East Title page......Page 3
Contents
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Introduction......Page 7
I. Language and Literature......Page 8
Fiction and Publics: The Emergence of the Arabic Best-Seller......Page 9
An Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy......Page 13
Turkey through the Looking Glass: Modern Fiction......Page 17
Resistance in Writing: Ghassan Kanafani and the Question of Palestine......Page 20
Illustrating Independence: The Algerian War Comic of the 1980s......Page 23
The Iraqi Tragedy, Scheherazade, and Her Granddaughters......Page 26
II. Performing Arts......Page 30
Flourishing Arts in the Arabian Peninsula......Page 31
Flowers in the Desert......Page 34
The Palestinian Cultural Scene: Narrating the Nakba......Page 38
The Hilarity of Evil: The Terrorist Drama in Israeli and Palestinian Films......Page 40
Two Icons of Hollywood on the Nile’s Unlikely Golden Age......Page 44
III. Visual Arts......Page 48
Art and Revolution in the Islamic Republic of Iran......Page 49
Hosay: A Shi‘i Ritual Transformed......Page 53
Mapping Modernity in Arab Art......Page 56
L’appartement 22: Creating Space for Art and Social Discourse in Morocco......Page 59
Iraqi Art: Dafatir......Page 62
Orientalist Art in Morocco......Page 65
ARTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST: SELECTED WEB RESOURCES......Page 69