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Violence and the city in the modern Middle East / edited by Nelida Fuccaro. - 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urban life and questions of violence / Nelida Fuccaro -- The semantics of violence and space / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Elite conflict and the urban environment : eighteenth-century Cairo / James E. Baldwin -- Urban space and prestige : when festivals turned violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s / Ulrike Freitag -- Citizenship rights and semantics of colonial power and resistance : Haifa, Jaffa, and Nablus, 1931-1933 / Lauren Banko -- Challenging the Ottoman pax urbana : intercommunal clashes in 1857 Tunis / Nora Lafi -- A tamed urban revolution : Saudi Arabia's oil conurbation and the 1967 riots / Claudia Ghrawi -- Making and unmaking spaces of security : Basra as battlefront, Basra insurgent, 1980-1991 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- A patriotic uprising : Baghdadi Jews and the Wathba / Orit Bashkin -- Dissecting moments of unrest : twentieth-century Kirkuk / Nelida Fuccaro -- War of clubs : struggle for space in Abadan and the 1946 oil strike / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Urban rupture : a fire, two hotels, and the transformation of Cairo / Yasser Elsheshtawy.

ISBN: 9780804797764 (e-book)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Urban violence--History.--Middle East
Political violence--History.--Middle East
City and town life--History.--Middle East

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HN656.Z9 / V589 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 303.60956