Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Ussama Makdisi, Paul A. Silverstein.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Bloomington
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: Indiana University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 243 p.
Dimensions
; 25 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein and Ussama Makdisi -- Violence and sacrifice -- A death revisited: solidarity and dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian community / Glenn Bowman -- Martyrdom and destiny: the inscription and imagination of Algerian history / James McDougall -- Patriotic sacrifice and the burden of memory in Israeli secular national Hebrew culture / Yael Zerubavel -- Resolution and reconciliation -- Commemoration under fire: Palestinian responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre / Shira Robinson -- The making and unmaking of memories: the case of a multi-confessional village in Lebanon / Anja Peleikis -- The Algerian war in French memory: vengeful memory's violence / Benjamin Stora -- Archaeology of memory -- Can the subaltern remember? a pessimistic view of the victims of Zionism / Gabriel Piterberg -- Beirut, a city without history? / Saree Makdisi -- Archaeology, nationhood, and settlement / Nadia Abu el-Haj.