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The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metalle

A look at how North African artists use essentially "foreign" means to express an "authentic" vision of their own cultural inheritances and imperatives.

Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde be

This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of ca