Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East)

by Edmund Burke III

By assembling the biographies of 24 ordinary Middle Eastern men and women - peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites - this book provides a series of vantage points from which to consider how Middle Eastern history might seem from the "bottom up".

Genres: History, Middle East, Nonfiction, Social Science

400 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1992

Reviews

[Acaerounkr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prof. Burke began every session of our Modern Middle East course by playing youtube videos and internet radio of the latest Arabic rap, hip hop, and dance electonica. It was wholly unexpected for a freshman at university, but the retired Terry Burke truly understood the modern in modern mid east. His collection of biographies are rather fascinating; within half a generation TE Lawrence's Saudi camelboy frontier became the skyscrapers, fancy cars, and oil-pipes of Dubai. A leaping transition that left many contemporary individuals disorientated and longing for their fleeting traditional past.

[Garrett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great! A compilation of work by many it gives you insight into cultures of the middle east and north africa. Some you've probably never heard of.

[Gaby Hernandez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly eye opening to the steady de-evolution and crumble of women's status and rights in the middle east

[Thomas Bundy]

Generally, I am not a fan of histories of unimportant people, but this one is not a total waste of time.