TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zuhur,Sherifa
TI  - Images of enchantment: visual and performing arts of the Middle East 
SN  - 9774244672
U1  - 700.956 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Cairo, Egypt
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Arts, Middle Eastern
KW  - 20th century
N1  - "Dar el Kutub no. 11371/97"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index; Introduction /Sherifa Zuhur -- Changing images and 
       shifting identities : female performers in Egypt / Karin 
       van Nieuwkerk -- Women's performance in ritual context : 
       wedding among the Rashayda of Sudan / William Young --
       Folk music and dance in the Arabian Gulf and Saudi 
       Arabia /Kay Hardy Campbell -- A procession through time
       : the Zaffat al-ʻarusa in three views -- Asmahan : Arab 
       musical performance and musicianship under the myth /
       Sherifa Zuhur -- Performance, political identity, and 
       memory : Umm Kulthum and Gamal ʻAbd al-Nasir / Virginia 
       Danielson -- Western classical music in Umm Kulthum's 
       country /Selim Sednaoui -- The music of Arab Americans 
       : aesthetics and performance in a new land /Anne 
       Rasmussen -- Beyond the performance /Simon Shaheen --
       Gender and politics in contemporary art : Arab women 
       empower the image / Salwa M. Nashashibi -- The artist's 
       voice /Chaibia Talal -- Imagery and invention : 
       Sudanese at home and in the world conversations with 
       Mohamed Omer Bushara and Musa Khalifa / Sondra Hale --
       Image and experience : why cinema? / Farida Ben Lyazid 
       -- Victims or actors? centering women in Egyptian 
       commercial film /Sherifa Zuhur -- Iranian cinema under 
       the Islamic Republic /Hamid Naficy -- Reverse imagery :
       Middle Eastern themes in Hollywood /Rebecca Stone --
       Farida Fahmy and the dancer's image in Egyptian film /
       Marjorie Franken -- Terrorism and Kabab : a Capraesque 
       view of modern Egypt /Walter Armbrust.

N2  - Explores dance, music, painting and cinema as experienced and practiced within the Middle East and also abroad. The text breaks down the distinctions - of form, geography, "high" and "low" art, performer and artist - to delineate the subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture.
UR  - http://repository.fue.edu.eg/xmlui/handle/123456789/4312
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