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Book List
- Colors of Enchantment: Theatre, Music, Dance and the Visual Arts of the Middle East
- Asmahan's Secrets: Woman, War, and Song
- Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East
- REVEALING REVEILING: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt
Colors of Enchantment: Theatre, Music, Dance and the Visual Arts of the Middle East
Edited by Sherifa Zuhur
ISBN: 977 424 607 1
PUB DATE: Fall 2001
PRICE: $ 19.95
OTHER: 446 pages, + index, 6 x 9, 20+ color photographs
In this companion volume to the successful Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998), historian and ethnomusicologist Sherifa Zuhur has once again commissioned and edited authoritative essays from noteworthy scholars from around the globe that explore the visual and performing arts in the Middle East.
What differentiates this volume from its predecessor is its investigation of theater, from the early modern period to the contemporary. Topics include race and national identity in Egyptian theater, early writing in the Arab theater in North America, Persian-language theater from its origins through the twentieth century, Palestinian nationalist theater, and a survey of the work of noted Egyptian playwright Yusuf Idris. Other aspects of the arts are not neglected, of course, as further avenues of dance, music, and the visual arts are explored.
Marked by interesting and fresh perspectives, Colors of
Enchantment is another vital contribution to scholarship on the arts of
the Middle East. Contributors: Najwa Adra, Wijdan Ali, Sami Asmar, Clarissa
Burt, Michael Frishkopf, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Tori Haring-Smith, Kathleen
Hood, Deborah Kapchan, Neil van der Linden, Samia Mehrez, Mona Mikhail,
Sami A. Ofeish, 'Ali Jihad Racy, Rashad Rida, Tonia Rifaey, Edward Said,
Lori Anne Salem, Philip D. Schuyler, Selim Sednaoui, Reuven Snir, James
Stone, Eve Troutt
Powell, and Sherifa Zuhur.
SHERIFA ZUHUR was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center
for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley in 2000-2001.
Her publications include Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology
in
Contemporary Egypt and Asmahan's Secrets: Woman, War, and Song.
Available through cterry@aucnyo.edu, the AUC Press Office,
Cairo, or after
Jan. 1, 2002, through Amazon.com
Asmahan's Secrets: Woman, War, and Song
By Sherifa Zuhur
The great Arab singer Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song and cinema in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as World War II approached. She remained a figure of glamour and intrigue throughout her life and lives on today in legend as one of the shaping forces in the development of Egyptian popular culture. In this biography, author Sherifa Zuhur does a thorough study of the music and film of Asmahan and her historical setting.
A Druze princess actually named Amal al-Atrash, Asmahan came from an important clan in the mountains of Syria but broke free from her traditional family background, left her husband, and became a public performer, a role frowned upon for women of the time.
This unique biography of the controversial Asmahan focuses on her public as well as her private life. She was a much sought-after guest in the homes of Egypt's rich and famous, but she was also rumored to be an agent for the Allied forces during World War II.
Through the story of Asmahan, the reader glimpses not only aspects of the cultural and political history of Egypt and Syria between the two world wars, but also the change in attitude in the Arab world toward women as public performers on stage. Life in wartime Cairo comes alive in this illustrated account of one of the great singers of the Arab world, a woman who played an important role in history.
Sherifa Zuhur is Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Middle East Monograph Series
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas Press or amazon.com
Images of Enchantment: Visual
and Performing Arts of the Middle East
SHERIFA ZUHUR
The American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 977 424 467 2 14 color illustrations
Paperback 1998 342 pages 23 by 14.5 cm.
US$ 19.95 / LE.70.00 Distribution: World
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This original and multidimensional book brings a refreshing new approach
to the study of the arts of the Middle East. By dealing in one volume
with dance, music, painting, and cinema, as experienced and practiced
not only within the Middle East but also abroad, Images of Enchantment
breaks down the artificial distinctions-of form, geography, 'high' and
'low' art, performer and artist-that are so often used to delineate the
subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture.
The eighteen essays in this book cover themes as diverse as Bedouin dance, the music of Arab Americans, cinema in Egypt and Iran, Hollywood representations of the Middle East, and contemporary Sudanese painting. The contributions come from scholars and critics and from the artists themselves. Together, they present a wide-ranging and holistic view of the arts in their social, political, anthropological, and gender contexts.
Contributors: Walter Armbrust, Farida Ben Lyazid, Kay
Hardy Campbell, Virginia Danielson, Marjorie Franken, Sondra Hale, Carolee
Kent, Hamid Naficy, Salwa Mikdadi Nashashibi, Anne K. Rasmussen, Selim
Sednaoui, Simon Shaheen, Rebecca Stone, Chabia Talal, Karin Van Nieuwkerk,
William Young, Sherifa Zuhur.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
* Sherifa Zuhur is an associate professor in the Department of History
at the American University in Cairo and an associate professor in the
Women's Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento. She
is the author of Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary
Egypt.
Available from AUC Press, Cairo, or cterry@aucnyo.edu
REVEALING REVEILING: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt
Sherifa Zuhur
"It provides an important look at the very contemporary phenomenon of veiling in Egypt through the first-hand reports of the women whom Zuhur has interviewed. Her subjects come across as real people and their discussion in relation to the various questions asked provide quite compelling views of the reason why they favor -- and oppose -- veiling." -- Jane I. Smith, Iliff School of Theology.
In modern Egypt, the pace of Islamic resurgence has increased as in other Muslim societies. Throughout the twentieth century, Egyptian women have fought fiercely for political participation and for legal and educational reform to improve their status. To many of them, the adoption of a new form of the veil seemed retrogressive and ominous. This book explores the history of Muslim women and the debates over gender which have developed since the golden age of Islam. It considers the opinions, goals, and ideals of fifty Egyptian women, veiled and unveiled and compares their views to the gender ideology of the contemporary Islamists. Women's social backgrounds are examined in the context of the Egyptian state and its social policies.
"In order to come up with the meaning of veiling
and unveiling in contemporary Egypt, this book combines discussion of
archetypal figures in the history of Muslim womanhood with self-perception,
discussion on femininity, and what it is to be religious."
-- Valerie Hoffman-Ladd, University of Illinois at Urbana
Sherifa Zuhur is Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts
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