{"product_id":"the-arab-world-society-culture-and-state-9780520084278","title":"The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State","description":"This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a \"mosaic\" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHalim Barakat\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Professor at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and author of \u003ci\u003eLebanon in Strife\u003c\/i\u003e (1979). His several novels in Arabic are widely read in the Middle East. Two novels, \u003ci\u003eDays of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSix Days\u003c\/i\u003e (1983 and 1990), have been translated into English.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580185215250,"sku":"9780520084278","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_84cf9640-f093-4bd2-b022-96175a39dc5b.jpg?v=1756210065","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-arab-world-society-culture-and-state-9780520084278","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}