{"product_id":"the-arab-nahda-as-popular-entertainment-mass-culture-and-modernity-in-the-middle-east-paperback","title":"The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHala Auji\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRaphael Cormack\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlaaeldin Mahmoud\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popular entertainment for Arabic-speaking audiences, many of whom were uneducated and striving to contend with modernity's anxiety-inducing realities? Studies on the 19th to mid-20th century's transformative cultural movement known as the Arab \u003ci\u003enahda\u003c\/i\u003e (renaissance), have largely focussed on concerns with nationalism, secularism, and language, often told from the perspective of privileged groups. Highlighting overlooked aspects of this movement, this book shifts the focus away from elite circles to quotidian audiences. Its ten contributions range in scope, from music and visual media to theatre and popular fiction. Paying special attention to networks of movement and exchange across Arab societies in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco, this book heeds the call for 'translocal\/transnational' cultural histories, while contributing to timely global studies on gender, sexuality, and morality. Focusing on the often-marginalized frequenters of cafés, artist studios, cinemas, nightclubs, and the streets, it expands the remit of who participated in the \u003ci\u003enahda\u003c\/i\u003e and how they did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHala Auji\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of art history and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art in the Department of Art History at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePrinting Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). Auji received her PhD in Art History from Binghamton University, the State University of New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaphael Cormack\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Arabic at the Durham University, UK. He was previously a visiting researcher at Columbia University in the City of New York and holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. His most recent publication was \u003ci\u003eMidnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring 20s\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). He has also edited two collections of Arabic short stories translated into English, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Khartoum \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Cairo\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlaaeldin Mahmoud\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait. He is a former Fulbright visiting Scholar at Ohio State University. He is an established translator who translated books of travel writing, fiction, and literary studies, notably his translation of \u003ci\u003eOther Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Kuwait, 2014). His latest book \u003ci\u003eNusus 'Abd Allah al-Nadim\u003c\/i\u003e (The Texts of \u003ci\u003e'Abd Allah al-Nadim\u003c\/i\u003e) was published in two volumes: \u003ci\u003eal-Diwan al-Shi'ri\u003c\/i\u003e (The Complete Collected Poems), and \u003ci\u003eal-Athar al-Nathriya al-Kamila\u003c\/i\u003e (Complete Works in Prose) (Cairo, 2020).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45525113503846,"sku":"9780755647446","price":81.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/pJ1VXTEBSy9780755647446.webp?v=1776581217","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-arab-nahda-as-popular-entertainment-mass-culture-and-modernity-in-the-middle-east-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}