Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa

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Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa

edited by Ussama Makdisi, and Paul A. Silverstein

Indiana University Press, c2006

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

Available at  / 7 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein and Ussama Makdisi
  • Violence and sacrifice
  • A death revisited: solidarity and dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian community / Glenn Bowman
  • Martyrdom and destiny: the inscription and imagination of Algerian history / James McDougall
  • Patriotic sacrifice and the burden of memory in Israeli secular national Hebrew culture / Yael Zerubavel
  • Resolution and reconciliation
  • Commemoration under fire: Palestinian responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre / Shira Robinson
  • The making and unmaking of memories: the case of a multi-confessional village in Lebanon / Anja Peleikis
  • The Algerian war in French memory: vengeful memory's violence / Benjamin Stora
  • Archaeology of memory
  • Can the subaltern remember? a pessimistic view of the victims of Zionism / Gabriel Piterberg
  • Beirut, a city without history? / Saree Makdisi
  • Archaeology, nationhood, and settlement / Nadia Abu el-Haj

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