The State of the Arts in the Middle East (2009) (The Middle East Institute Viewpoints)

Cover......Page 1 Middle East Institute......Page 2 Viewpoints Special Edition The State of the Arts in the Middle East Title page......Page 3 Contents ......Page 5 Introduction......Page 7 I. Language and Literature......Page 8 Fiction and Publics: The Emergence of the Arabic Best-Seller......Page 9 An Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy......Page 13 Turkey through the Looking Glass: Modern Fiction......Page 17 Resistance in Writing: Ghassan Kanafani and the Question of Palestine......Page 20 Illustrating Independence: The Algerian War Comic of the 1980s......Page 23 The Iraqi Tragedy, Scheherazade, and Her Granddaughters......Page 26 II. Performing Arts......Page 30 Flourishing Arts in the Arabian Peninsula......Page 31 Flowers in the Desert......Page 34 The Palestinian Cultural Scene: Narrating the Nakba......Page 38 The Hilarity of Evil: The Terrorist Drama in Israeli and Palestinian Films......Page 40 Two Icons of Hollywood on the Nile’s Unlikely Golden Age......Page 44 III. Visual Arts......Page 48 Art and Revolution in the Islamic Republic of Iran......Page 49 Hosay: A Shi‘i Ritual Transformed......Page 53 Mapping Modernity in Arab Art......Page 56 L’appartement 22: Creating Space for Art and Social Discourse in Morocco......Page 59 Iraqi Art: Dafatir......Page 62 Orientalist Art in Morocco......Page 65 ARTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST: SELECTED WEB RESOURCES......Page 69