Title:	Cultural Encounters in the Arab World
Other Titles:	On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
Authors:	Paddy Scannell, Sabry, Tarik
Keywords:	On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	I.B. Tauris
Description:	The history of the ‘Arab’ is a history of cultural encounters with others: in no particular order or chronology, the Greeks, Aristotle, Byzantines, Persians, Indians, Romans, Jews, Amazighs, Kurds, sabry_1-22.indd 1 8/19/2010 12:31:19 PM 2 Cultural Encounters in the Arab World Africans, Turks, Chinese, Paganism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sufism, Aramaic, Hebrew, Napoleon, Europe, European colonialism, Empire, Marxism, socialism, capitalism, liberalism, Rock’ n’ Roll and much more; yet, it seems, all this common cultural universe, this cosmos of encountering has never stopped people from searching for that one thing they call a pure and ‘authentic’ Arab identity. It’s like a continuous search for a lost mythical city, the Atlantis of identities, a chimera that will prove forever illusive. What they’ll find, if they ever find it, is a mélange or métis of all those things, or/and the different discourses of becoming disguised in ‘ideological intoxications of the past’, nothing more and nothing less. This book is not a search for the certain, pure, absolute or any kind of origin/essence; it is rather a search into encountering in its liminal and translucent state, the transient, the intersectional as well as the ironies and, let’s add, the contradictions and the possibilities that they bring
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51563
ISBN:	978 1 84885 360 7
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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