Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

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Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

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Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt...

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In this collection of original essays, Larry Gross' former students reflect on his groundbreaking contributions to the field of media studies.

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