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Colonial Effects

The Making of National Identity in Jordan

By: Joseph A. Massad

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Colonial Effects

The Making of National Identity in Jordan

By: Joseph A. Massad

Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period. Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel Foucault's insight that modern institutions and their power to have productive, not merely repressive or coercive, capacities—though Massad also stresses their continued repressive function. His argument is advanced by a consideration of evidence, including images produced by state tourist agencies aimed at attracting Western visitors, the changing and precarious position of women in the newly constructed national space, and such practices as soccer games, music, songs, food, clothing, and shifting accents and dialects.

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Columbia University Press

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0231505701

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9780231505703

Islam in Liberalism

By: Joseph A. Massad

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Islam in Liberalism

By: Joseph A. Massad

Joseph Massad s "Desiring Arabs" (UCP, 2007) was an intellectual/literary history that sought out links between Orientalism and representations of sex and desire, rebutting in the meantime Western efforts to impose categories of heterosexual/homosexual where (in Islam) no such subjectivities exist. His new book broadens the purview to show us what Islam has become in today s world, attending fully to the multiplication of meanings of Islam. Islam in Liberalism is an intellectual/political history, enabling us to understand that history in terms of how Islam operated as a category within western liberalism; another way to phrase this is to say that Massad underscores how the anxieties about what Europe constituteddespotism, intolerance, misogyny, homophobiahave gotten projected onto Islam. It is, he avers, only through this projection that Europe could emerge as democratic, tolerant, gynophilic, and hemophilicin short, Islam-free. But in fact Islam has been there since the birth of Europe. Liberalism has been the weapon of choice since the late 18th century against the internal and external others of Europe. Massad s brilliant critique of anti-Muslim sexual politics in Desiring Arabs is now broadened provocatively to include NGOs, international organizations, and therapeutic programs. He moves from consideration of the meanings of democracy (and the ideological assumption that Islam is not compatible with democracy) through chapters on women in Islam, sexuality and/in Islam, psychoanalytic interpretations of Islamic themes, and the more recent development of the idea of Abrahamic religions among those valorizing an inter-faith agenda. Overall, Massad sets this book up as a biting critique of the sort of liberalism Euro-American propagated and brought as good news to an unenlightened Islam.

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Colonial Effects

The Making of National Identity in Jordan

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The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

By: Joseph Massad

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The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

By: Joseph Massad

In this erudite and groundbreaking series of essays, renowned author Joseph Massad asks and answers key questions, such as: What has been the main achievement of the Zionist movement? What accounts for the failure of the Palestinian National Movement to win its struggle against Israel? What do anti-Semitism, colonialism and racism have to do with the Palestinian/Israeli 'conflict'? Joseph Massad offers a radical departure from mainstream analysis in order to expose the causes for the persistence of the 'Palestinian Question'. He proposes that it is not in de-linking the Palestinian Question from the Jewish Question that a resolution can be found, but by linking them as one and the same question. All other proposed solutions, the author argues, are bound to fail. Deeply researched and documented, this book analyzes the failure of the 'peace process' and proposes that a solution to the Palestinian Question will not be found unless settler-colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism are abandoned as the ideological framework for a resolution. Individual essays further explore the struggle over Jewish identity in Israel and the struggle among Palestinians over what constitutes the Palestinian Question today.

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Routledge

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1135988412

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The Homoerotics of Orientalism

By: Joseph A. Boone

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The Homoerotics of Orientalism

By: Joseph A. Boone

The place of the Middle East in European heterosexual fantasy is well documented in the works of Edward Said and others, yet few have considered the male Anglo-European (and, later, American) writers, artists, travelers, and thinkers compelled to represent what, to their eyes, seemed to be an abundance of erotic relations between men in the Islamicate world. Whether feared or desired, the mere possibility of sexual contact with or between men in the Middle East has covertly underwritten much of the appeal and practice of the enterprise of Orientalism, frequently repeating yet just as often upending its assumed meanings. Traces of this undertow abound in European and Middle Eastern fiction, diaries, travel literature, erotica, ethnography, painting, photography, film, and digital media. Joseph Allen Boone explores these vast representations, linking European art to Middle Eastern sources largely unfamiliar to Western audiences and, in some cases, reproduced in this volume for the first time.

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Columbia University Press

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0231151101

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Making Shabbat

Celebrating and Learning at American Jewish Summer Camps

By: Joseph Reimer

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Making Shabbat

Celebrating and Learning at American Jewish Summer Camps

By: Joseph Reimer

Early in the 20th century, Jewish camp leaders had little interest in creating spiritual experiences for their campers. Yet Jewish camps have gradually provided primal Jewish experiences that campers could enjoy, parents appreciate, and alumni fondly recall. This book considers how Shabbat at camp became the focus for these experiences"--

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Brandeis University Press

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1684580978

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The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

By: Joseph Massad

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The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

By: Joseph Massad

In this erudite and groundbreaking series of essays, renowned author Joseph Massad takes a radical departure from mainstream analysis in order to expose the causes for the persistence of the Palestinian Question.

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1135988420

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Islam in Liberalism

By: Joseph A. Massad

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Book's by Joseph A. Massad

Colonial Effects

Colonial Effects

Islam in Liberalism

Islam in Liberalism

Colonial Effects

Colonial Effects

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

Making Shabbat

Making Shabbat

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

Islam in Liberalism

Islam in Liberalism

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