Front cover image for Images of enchantment : visual and performing arts of the Middle East

Images of enchantment : visual and performing arts of the Middle East

Print Book, English, ©1998
American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, ©1998
x, 324 p. : color ill. ; 24 cm
9789774244674, 9774244672
1026121919
"Dar el Kutub no. 11371/97"--T.p. verso
Incluye índice
Changing images and shifting identities: females performes in Egypt / Karim van Nieuwkerk -- Women's performance in ritual context: weddings among the Rashayda of Sudan / Wlliam Young -- Folk music and dance in the Arab Gulf and Saudi Arabia / Kay Hardy Campbell -- A procession through time: the Zaffat al-̀Arusa in three views / Carolee Kent and Marjorie Franken -- Asmahan: arab muslim performance and musicianship under the mth / Sherifa Zuhur -- Performance, political identity, and memory: Umm Kulthum and Gamal Àbd al-Nasir / Virginia Danielson -- Western classical music in Umm Kulthum's country / Salim Sednaoui -- The muslim of Arab Americans: aesthetics and performance in a new land / Anne Rasmussen -- Beyond the performance / Simon Shaheen -- Gerder and politics in contempory art: arab women empower the image / Salwa M. Nashashibi -- The artist's voice / Chaïbia Talal -- Imagery and invention: sudanese at home and in the world conversations with Mohamed Omer Bushara and Musa Khalifa / Sondra Hale -- Image and experience: why cinema? / Farida Ben Lyazid -- Victims or actors? centering women in Egyptian commercitial film / Sherifa Zuhur -- Iranian cinema under the Islamic Republic 7 Hamid Naficy -- Reverse imagery: middle eastern themes in Hollywood / Rebecca Stone -- Farida Fahmy and the dancer's image in Egyptian film / Marjorie Franken -- Terrorism and Kabab : a capraesque view or modern Egypt / Walter Armbrust