A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East

Yasir Suleiman considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage spoken by the majority of peoples in the Middle East, Arabic is a particularly appropriate language to study and provides a penetrating means of exploring the conflicts of the Middle East.

Author: Yasir Suleiman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/21/2004
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.96w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780521546560

About the Author
Suleiman, Yasir: - Yasir Suleiman is Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Director of the Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of the Arab World and Islam at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003) and The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: a Study in Ta'liil (1999).

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