Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa / Edited by Ussama Makdisi, and Paul A. Silverstein.

Other author Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968-
Other author Silverstein, Paul A., 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Description243 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Violence--Middle East. --History.
Violence--Africa, North. --History.
Political violence--Middle East. --History.
Political violence--Africa, North. --History.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005016784
ISBN025334655X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253217989 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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