{"product_id":"the-arab-world-society-culture-and-state-paperback","title":"The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHalim Barakat\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a \"mosaic\" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will become a classic.--Barbara Aswad, President, Middle Eastern Studies Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHalim Barakat\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Professor at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and author of \u003ci\u003eLebanon in Strife\u003c\/i\u003e (1979). His several novels in Arabic are widely read in the Middle East. Two novels, \u003ci\u003eDays of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSix Days\u003c\/i\u003e (1983 and 1990), have been translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.96 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52637555818803,"sku":"9780520084278","price":64.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/O7YbrVB7tj9780520084278.webp?v=1762293196","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-arab-world-society-culture-and-state-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}