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A deep and detailed analysis, supplemented by acute observations about the intricate and subtle ways in which politics, self, identity, and language integrate and collide in the Arab world...it is likely to leave a lasting impact. --Language in Society Arabic, Self and Identity is Yasir Suleiman's third book on the politics of language and the role of language in constructing modern identities in the Arabic-speaking world...All three books provide and indispensable corpus on the inner workings of identity in relation to Arabic languages today. Suleiman draws attention to how language becomes a resource for the solidification of identities, marks the boundaries of a group, constructs friend or foe binaries, and bestows a strong sense of solidarity and belonging. At the same time, language is anxiety-ridden and a source for fragmented and hyphenated identities. Suleiman navigates elegantly through these inherent contradictions and shows how identity is anchored in language yet expressed in counter-intuitive, often surprising alliances. --Journal of Levantine Studies

an indispensable corpus on the inner workings of identity in relation to Arabic languages today. Journal of Levantine Studies

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Yasir Suleiman is Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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