A New Old Damascus
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A New Old Damascus
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Author : Christa Salamandra
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-10
A New Old Damascus written by Christa Salamandra and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-10 with Social Science categories.
"[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done.... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them." -- Andrew Shryock In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite. In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodity for the consumption of tourists and, most important, of new and old segments of the Syrian upper class. In this lively ethnographic study, Christa Salamandra argues that in deploying and debating such representations, Syrians dispute the past and criticize the present. Indiana Series in Middle East Studies -- Mark Tessler, general editor
Old Damascus
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Author : Zakariya M.. Kibrit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Old Damascus written by Zakariya M.. Kibrit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Preserving The Old City Of Damascus
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Author : Faedah M. Totah
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-28
Preserving The Old City Of Damascus written by Faedah M. Totah and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-28 with Social Science categories.
In Preserving the Old City of Damascus, Totah examines the recent gentrification of the historic urban core of the Syrian capital and the ways in which urban space becomes the site for negotiating new economic and social realities. The book illustrates how long-term inhabitants of the historic quarter, developers, and government officials offer at times competing interpretations of urban space and its use as they vie for control over the representation of the historic neighborhoods. Based on over two years of ethnographic and archival research, this book expands our understanding of neoliberal urbanism in non-western cities.
The Disappearing Old Damascus
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Author : Anghélos Keusséoglou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Disappearing Old Damascus written by Anghélos Keusséoglou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Damascus (Syria) categories.
The Emerging Asian City
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Author : Vinayak Bharne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
The Emerging Asian City written by Vinayak Bharne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Architecture categories.
The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing cities and economies. As such Asian cities create concomitant imagery – polarizations of poverty and wealth, blurred lines between formality and informality, and stark juxtapositions of ancient historic places with shimmering new skylines. This book embraces the complexity and ambiguity of the Asian urban landscape, and surveys its bewildering array of multifarious urbanities and urbanisms. Twenty-four essays offer scholarly reflections and positions on the complex forces and issues shaping Asian cities today, looking at why Asian cities are different from the West and whether they are treading a different path to their futures. Their combined narrative – spanning from Turkey to Japan and Mongolia to Indonesia - is framed around three sections: Traditions reflects on indigenous urbanisms and historic places, Tensions reflects on the legacies of Asia’s East–West dialectic through both colonialism and modernism and Transformations examines Asia’s new emerging utopias and urban aspirations. The book claims that the histories and destinies of cities across various parts of Asia are far too enmeshed to unpack or oversimplify. Avoiding the categorization of Asian cities exclusively by geographic location (south-east, Middle East), or the convenient tagging of the term Asian on selective regional parts of the continent, it takes a broad intellectual view of the Asian urban landscape as a 'both...and' phenomenon; as a series of diverse confluences – geographic, historic and political – extending from the deserts of the Persian Gulf region to the Pearl River Delta. Arguing for Asian cities to be taken seriously on their own terms, this book represents Asia – as a fount of extraordinary knowledge that can challenge our fundamental preconceptions of what cities are and ought to be.
The Disappearing Old Damascus
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Author : Anghélos Keusséoglou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Disappearing Old Damascus written by Anghélos Keusséoglou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Cries categories.
Living Old Damascus
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Author : Bertrand Lamon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-23
Living Old Damascus written by Bertrand Lamon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-23 with categories.
"Living Old Damascus" proposes a sociological and artistic reading of the local residents' daily life in Damascus' historical neighbourhood. The photographic project highlights the multi-cultural heritage shaping today's local lifestyle. Pictures were crafted in 2019, essentially through street photography.
Old Damascus The Unknown
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Author : Zakariyā Muḥammad Kibrīt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Old Damascus The Unknown written by Zakariyā Muḥammad Kibrīt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
From Damascus To Beirut
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Author : Hazem Fadel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-08
From Damascus To Beirut written by Hazem Fadel and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Notably, studies on the Arabic novel tend to focus on canonical writers, like the Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), and leave out or just mention en passant the work of others. This book is not concerned with the ways in which the Arabic novel breaks away from or reproduces Mahfouz’s approach and techniques, but focuses instead on the way in which the authors in question engage with the phenomena of nationalism, feminism, post- and neo-colonialism, civil war, and social change in the Arab world using an urban scenario as their privileged point of observation. The Arabic city is privileged as a focal point because it is the space where the struggles over issues of nation-building, gender, religion, and class, as well as the patriarchal, colonialist, Zionist, and sectarian violence linked to these issues, manifest themselves most evidently. To this end, From Damascus to Beirut: Contested Cities in Arab Writing brings together four novels published between 1969 and 1989, which have never been approached from this perspective nor put in this kind of dialogue before. Ulfat Idilbi’s Damascus, Ghassan Kanafani’s Haifa, Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Constantine, and Elias Khoury’s Beirut are social and historical products, and, as such, as Henri Lefebvre maintains, are deeply rooted in politics and affected by ideology. The cities discussed here, in fact, display the ebbs and flows of political and social life in their respective countries and in the Arab world in general. Each city stands at a crucial point in the history of the Arab world, and the way in which they are represented by their respective authors sets the stage for, and sometimes even foreshadows, an upcoming defeat or disappointment. Albeit for different reasons, Damascus, Haifa, Constantine and Beirut are all expressions of failures either on national, political, social, or economic levels. Paradoxically, however, they are also the repositories of their people’s hopes and aspirations, as well as of their disappointments. Analysing these novels as such, this book will be of particular interest to postcolonial readers and, more importantly, to English-speaking readers who are interested in the study of modern Arabic literature. Its close textual analysis offers the reader new tools not only for understanding themes and narrative techniques pertaining to the Arabic novel, but also the contemporary political, cultural and social issues that produced them.
Damascus
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Author : Ross Burns
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-16
Damascus written by Ross Burns and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-16 with History categories.
Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region’s past. It traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the its emergence in around 7000 BC through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Turkish and French rulers to independence in 1946. This new edition has been thoroughly updated using recent scholarship and includes an additional chapter placing the events of the Syrian post-2011 conflict in the context of the city’s tumultuous experiences over the last century. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the sweep of Syrian history and archaeology, and is an ideal partner to Burns’ Aleppo (2016). Lavishly illustrated, Damascus: A History remains a unique and compelling exploration of this fascinating city.