Overview

In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought with the 'modern' in Arab lived experience. In bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, Sabry is offering fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world today.

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Author:   Tarik Sabry
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Volume:   v. 89
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781848853607

ISBN 10:   1848853602
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Content: Chapter 1: On Encountering and Modernness Chapter 2: Contemporary Arab Thought and the Struggle for Authenticity Chapter 3: Arab Popular Cultures and Everyday Life Chapter 4: The Bridge and the Queue as Spaces of Encountering Chapter 5: Modernness as Multiple Narrative-Category: Encountering the West Chapter 6: Still Searching for the Arab Present Cultural Tense: Arab Cultural Studies Chapter 7: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

'Tarik Sabry is the perfect 'modern Sinbad' navigating back and forth between different countries, cultures and languages, enriching them and himself. In the 1001 Nights there are two Sinbads: a sedentary one (al-bari) who is rather boring and not so successful. The other is a sea-navigator (al-bahri) who has an exciting life precisely because he masters the art of communicating with the Other. Tarik's book reflects this art.' - Fatima Mernissi; 'In this ambitious, wide-ranging first work Tarik Sabry examines contemporary Arab culture from a double perspective. He seeks to rescue contemporary Arabic intellectual thought from a preoccupation with its heritage and tradition and to refocus it on the profane culture of everyday life. He has written an absorbing account of the encounters with modernity for young Arabs of North Africa in market places and cafes, in queues for visas outside Western embassies, on a bridge in Cairo where lovers meet, and in the responses of young Berber tribesmen to 'Baywatch' and Pamela Anderson. It is a beautifully written, passionately engaged account of the many-sided, contradictory meanings of The West as object of desire and distrust in the Maghreb today.' - Paddy Scannell

Author Information

Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory, University of Westminster. He is co-editor of the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'.

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