Roel Meijer

Alienation or Integration of Arab Youth

Between Family, State and Street

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An anthology of contributions from eleven renowned specialists in the field who deal with topics that effect Arab youth in the Middle East the most, such as demographic growth, rising unemployment, and the difficult prospects of their future. Apart from studies on violence and youth in the Algerian civil war, the book offers new insights into generational conflicts and attempts by contemporary youth to overcome their alienation by creating their own eclectic cultural solutions to the problems of tradition and modernity. The book is based on the latest research and opinion surveys held in different Arab countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780700712557
• ISBN-10: 0700712550
• Artikelnr.: 21459401

Autorenporträt

Meijer, Roel

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Roel Meijer; Part I Background to present day youth problems;
Chapter One Arab youth today: The generation gap, identity crisis and
democratic deficit, Gema Martín Muñoz; Chapter Two The demographic
inflection of the southern Mediterranean: Reasons for optimism, Youssef
Courbage; Part II Political generations; Chapter Three Youth and Arab
politics: The political generation of 1935-36, Haggai Erlich; Chapter Four
The Egyptian generation of 1967: Reaction of the young to national defeat,
Ahmed Abdalla; Chapter Five Youth, the street and violence in Algeria, Luis
Martinez; Chapter Six Morocco's next political generation, Mark Tessler;
Part III Constructing new identities; Chapter Seven Legitimate subversion
and the symbolism of integration in Raï music in Algeria, Hadj Miliani;
Chapter Eight Youth in Morocco: An indicator of a changing society, Mounia
Bennani-Chraïbi; Chapter Nine Caught between two worlds: Youth in the
Egyptian hinterland, Barbara Ibrahim, Hind Wassef; Part IV Generational
conflicts in Arabic literature; Chapter Ten The lost heritage: Generation
conflicts in four Arabic novels, Richard van Leeuwen; Chapter Eleven Escape
from the family: A theme in Arab autobiography, Tetz Rooke;