Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

Name: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
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ISBN: 9780253217981

ISBN-10: 0253217989

ISBN-13: 9780253217981

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ussama Makdisi, Paul A. Silverstein

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University.Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration


Introduction: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa




Violence and Sacrifice



A Death Revisited: Solidarity and Dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian Community




Martyrdom and Destiny: The Inscription and Imagination of Algerian History




Patriotic Sacrifice and the Burden of Memory in Israeli Secular National Hebrew Culture




Resolution and Reconciliation



Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre




The Making and Unmaking of Memories: The Case of a Multi-Confessional Village in Lebanon




The Algerian War in French Memory: Vengeful Memory's Violence




Archaeology of Memory



Can the Subaltern Remember? A Pessimistic View of the Victims of Zionism




Beirut, a City without History?




Archaeology, Nationhood, and Settlement



Contributors


Index