{"product_id":"minorities-and-the-modern-arab-world-new-perspectives-9780815634331","title":"Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in \u003ci\u003eMinorities and the Modern Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e seek to challenge this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in which ethnic, religious, and linguistic commitments have intersected to create minority communities in the modern era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together the fields of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and linguistics, contributors provide fresh analyses of the construction and evolution of minority identities around the region. They examine how the category of minority became meaningful only with the rise of the modern nation-state and find that Middle Eastern minority nationalisms owe much of their modern self-definition to developments within diaspora populations and other transnational frameworks. The first volume to upend the conceptual frame of reference for studying Middle Eastern minority communities in nearly two decades, \u003ci\u003e Minorities and the Modern Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e represents a major intervention in modern Middle East studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Robson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.05w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815634331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Robson\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history at Portland State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eColonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40191906578547,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e225783b-d548-4fe2-b106-995eb1431352.jpg?v=1655906957","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/minorities-and-the-modern-arab-world-new-perspectives-9780815634331","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}