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Mountain against the sea : essays on Palestinian society and culture / Salim Tamari.
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Title:Mountain against the sea : essays on Palestinian society and culture / Salim Tamari.
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Author/Creator:Tamārī, Salīm.
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Published/Created:Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2009.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: DS112 .T36 2009
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: DS112 .T36 2009
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Palestinian Arabs--Intellectual life--20th century.
Palestine--Social life and customs--20th century.
Palestine--Civilization.
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Description:xi, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Notes:"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index.
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ISBN:9780520251298 (hbk. : alk. pap.)
0520251296 (hbk. : alk. pap.)
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Contents:Introduction: Palestine's conflictual modernity
The mountain against the sea? Cultural wars of the eastern Mediterranean
From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna : small towns and social control
Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city
A musician's lot : the Jawhariyyeh memoirs as a key to Jerusalem's early modernity
Lepers, lunatics, and saints : the nativist ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and his circle
Sultana and Khalil : the origins of romantic love in Palestine
The last feudal lord
Ishaq Shami and the predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine
The enigmatic bolshevik from the Holy city
The vagabond café and Jerusalem's prince of idleness.