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Violence and the city in the modern Middle East
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- Creator
- edited by Nelida Fuccaro
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804797528, 0804795843, 9780804795845, 9780804797528, 0804797765, 9780804797764
- OCLC
- ocn912140591, on1224277876
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Urban life and questions of violence / Nelida Fuccaro -- 2. The semantics of violence and space / Rasmus Christian Elling -- 3. Elite conflict and the urban environment : eighteenth-century Cairo / James E. Baldwin -- 4. Urban space and prestige : when festivals turned violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s / Ulrike Freitag -- 5. Citizenship rights and semantics of colonial power and resistance : Haifa, Jaffa, and Nablus, 1931-1933 / Lauren Banko -- 6. Challenging the Ottoman pax urbana : intercommunal clashes in 1857 Tunis / Nora Lafi -- 7. A tamed urban revolution : Saudi Arabia's oil conurbation and the 1967 riots / Claudia Ghrawi -- 8. Making and unmaking spaces of security : Basra as battlefront, Basra insurgent, 1980-1991 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- 9. A patriotic uprising : Baghdadi Jews and the Wathba / Orit Bashkin -- 10. Dissecting moments of unrest : twentieth-century Kirkuk / 11. War of clubs : struggle for space in Abadan and the 1946 oil strike / 12. Urban rupture : a fire, two hotels, and the transformation of Cairo / Yasser Elsheshtawy