Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East
Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history—depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East—from Morocco to Afghanistan—in which the reader is provided with vantage points from...
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Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history—depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East—from Morocco to Afghanistan—in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern Middle Eastern history "from the bottom up." Spanning the past 160-plus years and reflecting important transformations, these stories challenge elite-centered accounts of what has occurred in the Middle East and illuminate the previously hidden corners of a largely unrecorded world.
1Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives12Assaf : a peasant of Mount Lebanon353Shemsigul : a Circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo484Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus : a collective biography645Ahmad : a Kuwaiti pearl diver806Mohand N'Hamoucha : middle atlas berber897Bibi Maryam : a Bakhtiyari tribal woman1038The Shaykh and his daughter : coping in Colonial Algeria1199Izz al-Din al-Qassam : preacher and Mujahid13710Abu Ali al-Kilawi : a Damascus Qabaday15211M'hamed Ali : Tunisian labor organizer16412Hagob Hagobian : an Armenian truck driver in Iran17813Naji : an Iraqi country doctor18714Migdim : Egyptian Bedouin matriarch20515Rostam : Qashqa'i rebel22316An Iranian village boyhood23717Gulab : an Afghan schoolteacher25318Abu Jamal : a Palestinian urban villager26819Haddou : a Moroccan migrant worker28120Nasir : Sa'idi youth between Islamism and agriculture30121Ghada : village rebel or political protestor?31922Khanom Gohary : Iranian community leader33923Nadia : "mother of the believers"36624June Leavitt : West Bank settler38725Talal Rizk : a Syrian engineer in the gulf405
