University of California Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. University of California Press ISBN 0520079078 9780520079076 [US]

University of California Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. University of California Press ISBN 0520079078 9780520079076 [US]

Univ of California Pr, Date: 1993-02. Hardcover. Good. 1993. Univ of California Pr ISBN 0520079078 9780520079076 [US]

ISBN10: 0520079078, ISBN13: 9780520079076, [publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley] Hardcover First Edition University of California Press, February 1993. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Good+ book in a Fine jacket. Occasional ink emphasis marks from a prior owner. Spine square and tight. Jacket clean and crisp. Foxing to edges. 362 pagers. This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both a scholar and a novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-19th century. His is a picture that differs dramatically from the static one portrayed by much of Western scholarship. Barakat maintains that the unequal power relationships between Western imperial forces and Arabs have strongly influenced Western writing, thereby limiting our understanding of what it means to be Arab. The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, or one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions.
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Univ of California Pr, Date: 1993-02-01. Hardcover. Used:Good. 1993. Univ of California Pr ISBN 0520079078 9780520079076 [US]