Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa
By: Edited by Ussama Makdisi, and Paul A. Silverstein.
Contributors: Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968-; Silverstein, Paul A., 1970-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Violence -- Middle East -- History; Violence -- Africa, North -- History; Political violence -- Middle East -- History; Political violence -- Africa, North -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein and Ussama Makdisi; title: Violence and sacrifice; title: A death revisited: solidarity and dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian community / Glenn Bowman; title: Martyrdom and destiny: the inscription and imagination of Algerian history / James McDougall; title: Patriotic sacrifice and the burden of memory in Israeli secular national Hebrew culture / Yael Zerubavel; title: Resolution and reconciliation; title: Commemoration under fire: Palestinian responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre / Shira Robinson; title: The making and unmaking of memories: the case of a multi-confessional village in Lebanon / Anja Peleikis; title: The Algerian war in French memory: vengeful memory's violence / Benjamin Stora; title: Archaeology of memory; title: Can the subaltern remember? a pessimistic view of the victims of Zionism / Gabriel Piterberg; title: Beirut, a city without history? / Saree Makdisi; title: Archaeology, nationhood, and settlement  / Nadia Abu el-Haj.