David Yaghoubian & Edmund Burke 
Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East 
Second Edition

Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history—depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East—from Morocco to Afghanistan—in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern Middle Eastern history ‘from the bottom up.’ Spanning the past 160-plus years and reflecting important transformations, these stories challenge elite-centered accounts of what has occurred in the Middle East and illuminate the previously hidden corners of a largely unrecorded world.

Table des matières

Preface


1. Middle Eastern Societies and Ordinary People’s Lives


PART ONE. PRECOLONIAL LIVES

2. Assaf: A Peasant of Mount Lebanon

3. Shemsigul: A Circassian Slave in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo

4. Journeymen Textile Weavers in Nineteenth-Century Damascus: A Collective

5. Ahmad: A Kuwaiti Pearl Diver

6. Mohand N’Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber

7. Bibi Maryam: A Bakhtiyari Tribal Woman


PART TWO. COLONIAL LIVES

8. The Shaykh and His Daughter: Coping in Colonial Algeria

9. Izz al-Din al-Qassam: Preacher and Mujahid

10. Abu Ali al-Kilawi: A Damascus Qabaday

11. M’hamed Ali: Tunisian Labor Organizer

12. Hagob Hagobian: An Armenian Truck Driver in Iran

13. Naji: An Iraqi Country Doctor


PART THREE. POST-COLONIAL LIVES

14. Migdim: Egyptian Bedouin Matriarch

15. Rostam: Qashqa’i Rebel

16. An Iranian Village Boyhood

17. Gulab: An Afghan Schoolteacher

18. Abu Jamal: A Palestinian Urban Villager

19. Haddou: A Moroccan Migrant Worker


PART FOUR. CONTEMPORARY LIVES

20. Nasir: Sa’idi Youth Between Islamism and Agriculture

21. Ghada: Village Rebel or Political Protestor?

22. Khanom Gohary: Iranian Community Leader

23. Nadia: ‘Mother of the Believers’

24. June Leavitt: West Bank Settler

25. Talal Rizk: A Syrian Engineer in the Gulf


Glossary

List of Contributors

Index

A propos de l’auteur

Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor, with David Prochaska, of After the Colonial Turn: Orientalism, History and Theory (2005) and coeditor, with Ira M. Lapidus, of Islam, Politics, and Social Movements (California, 1990). David N. Yaghoubian is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.