Bridging The Divide Between The United States And The Muslim World Through Arts And Ideas: Possibilities And Limitations

Appendix IV: Background Paper
Cultural Awareness In A Time Of Crisis

RECOMMENDED FURTHER READINGS

General

Walter Armbrust, ed., Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts, eds., Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography, Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Miriam Cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence, eds., Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson, eds., New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Poetry and Prose: Arabic

Saddeka Arebi, Women and Words in Saudi Arabia, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Aida Abib Bamia, The Graying of the Raven: Cultural and Sociopolitical Significance of Algerian Folk Poetry, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2001.

The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, 6 vols., various editors, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984–2008.

Steve Caton, Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., Modern Arabic Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

James T. Monroe, Hispano–Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2004.

Muhsin Jasim al–Musawi, Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition, London: Routledge, 2006.

Muhsin Jasim al–Musawi, The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, ed., Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics, London: Ashgate, 2009.

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre–Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Sabra Jean Webber, Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Poetry and Prose: Persian

Ahmad Karimi–Hakkak, ed., An Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry, Boulder: Westview, 1978.

Minoo S. Southgate, ed., Modern Persian Short Stories, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1980.

Soraya Sullivan, tr., Stories by Iranian Women Since the Revolution, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Ehsan Yarshater and J. T. P. de Bruijn, eds., General Introduction to Persian Literature: A History of Persian Literature, London: I. B. Tauris, 2008.

Poetry and Prose: Turkish

Ahmet O. Evin, Origins and Development of the Turkish Novel, Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1984.

Talat Said Halman, Contemporary Turkish Literature: Fiction and Poetry, Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980.

Nermin Menemencioglu and Fahir Iz, eds., Penguin Book of Turkish Verse, New York: Penguin, 1978.

Poetry and Prose: Urdu

Frances W. Pritchett, Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Francess W. Pritchett, Marvelous Encounters: Folk Romance in Urdu and Hindi, n.p.: South Asia Books, 1998.

Ralph Russell, ed., An Anthology of Urdu Literature, Manchester, U.K.: Carcanet Press, 2000.

Qur’anic Chant

Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qur’an, Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2001.

Music and Song

Virginia Danielson, “The Voice of Egypt”: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

George Sawa, Music Performance Practice in the Early Abbasid Era, 750—932 A.D., updated ed., Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2004.

Calligraphy

Sheila S. Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Painting and Design

Karin Adahl and Berit Sahlstrom, eds., Islamic Art and Culture in Sub–Saharan Africa, Philadelphia: Coronet Books, 1995.

Metin And, Turkish Miniature Painting: The Ottoman Period, Istanbul: Dost Yayinlari, 1987.

Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom, The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250—1800, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Walter P. Denny, Oriental Rugs, New York: Smithsonian Institution—Cooper–Hewitt Museum, 1979.

Walter P. Denny and Nazan ölçer, Anatolian Carpets: Masterpieces from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, Bern: Ertug and Kocabiyik, 1999.

Oleg Grabar, The Formation of Islamic Art, rev. and enl. ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic Art and Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

Anthony Welch, Shah ‘Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, New York: The Asia Society, 1973.

Architecture

Janet L. Abu–Lughod, Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Nezar al—Sayyad, Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Zeynep Çelik, The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Godfrey Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson, 2003.

Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

Ali Modarres, Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda, 2006.

Gülrü Necipoglu, et al., The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Susan Slyomovics, The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib, London: Routledge, 2001.

Theater and Cinema

Metin And, Karagöz: Turkish Shadow Theatre, Istanbul: Dost Yayinlari, 1975.

Mustafa Badawi, Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Peter Chelkowski, ed., Taziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran, New York: New York University Press, 1979.

David Currell, Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play, Ramsbury, Wiltshire: Crowood, 2008.

Hamid Dabashi, Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema, Washington, D.C.: Mage, 2007.

Gönül Dönmez–Colin, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Reaktion Books, 2008.

M. R. Ghanoonparvar and John Green, Iranian Drama: An Anthology, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda, 1989.

Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, rev. ed., 2007.

Richard Tapper, ed., The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity, London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.

Dance

Najwa Adra, “Concept of Tribe in Rural Yemen.” In Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Nicholas S. Hopkins, eds., Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1985, pp. 275—285.

Op. cit., “Tribal Dancing and Yemeni Nationalism.” Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée, 1993, 67(1), 161–168.

Azardokht ‘Ameri, “Raqs–e ‘amianeh–ye shahri va raqs–e mowsum be klasik: bar–rasi–ye tatbiqi dar howze–ye Tehran.” Mahour Music Quarterly, number 20, Summer 2003, 24–28.

Metin And, 1959. Dances of Anatolian Turkey. New York: Dance Perspectives, number 3.

Morroe Berger, 1966. “Belly Dance.” Horizon 8 (2), 41–49.

———. “Curious and Wonderful Gymnastic,” New York: Dance Perspectives, number10, Spring 1961.

M. L. Roy Choudhury, “Music in Islam.” Journal of the Asiatic Society. Letters, vol. XXIII, number 2, 1957: 43–102.

Sherri Deaver, “Concealment vs. Display: The Modern Saudi Woman.” Dance Research Journal. Summer 1978: 14–18.

Mary Masayo Doi, 2002. Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey.

Lois Ibsen Al–Faruqi, 1987. “Dance as a Form of Islamic Expression.” Dance Research Journal. Oct. 2, 6–17.

Sasan Fatemi, 2005. “La musique legére urbaine dans la culture iranienne: Réflexions sur les notions de classique et populaire.” Unpublished dissertation. Université Paris X–Nanterre.

Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, 2004. Dancing Fear & Desire: Race, Sexuality, & Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Bruce E. H. Koepke, 2003. “Covert Dance in Afghanistan: A Metaphor for Crisis?” in Mohd Anis Md Nor, ed. Asian Music. Kuala Lumpur: Asian Pacific Dance Research Society, 92–107.

Edward W. Lane, 2003 (originally published in 1836). An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern of the Egyptians. Cairo: American University in Cairo.

Rudi Mathee, 2000. “Prostitutes, Courtesans, and Dancing Girls: Women Entertainers in Safavid Iran.” In Rudi Mathee and Beth Baron, eds. Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda, 121–150.

Arzu öztürkmen, 2003. “Modern Dance Alla Turca: Transforming Ottoman Dance in Early Republican Turkey.” Dance Research Journal. 35/1 Summer 2003, 38–60.

Magda Saleh, 1998a. “Egypt: Traditional Dance.” International Encyclopedia of Dance, vol. 2, 486–495.

———. 1998b. “Egypt: Contemporary Dance Companies.” International Encyclopedia of Dance, vol. 2, 495–499.

Anthony Shay, 2008. Dancing Across Borders: The American Fascination with Exotic Dance Forms. Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland & Co.

———. 2008. “Choreographing Masculinity: Hypermasculine Dance Styles as Invented Tradition in Egypt, Iran, and Uzbekistan.” Dance Chronicle. vol. 31, number 2.

———. 2006. “The Male Dancer in the Middle East and Central Asia.” Dance Research Journal. Summer & Winter 2006, 38/ 1 & 2, 137–162.

———. 2002. Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation, and Power. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.

———. 1999. Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda.

———. 1995. “Dance and Non–Dance: Patterned Movement in Iran and Islam.” Iranian Studies, vol. 28, numbers 1–2, Winter/Spring 1995, 61–78.

Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers–Young, eds. 2005. Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, and Harem Fantasy. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda.

Karen Van Nieuwkirk, Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Videologue

“Afghan Village.” 1976. Hanover, New Hampshire: American University Field Services.

“Dances of Egypt.” 1991, 2006. Los Angeles: Araf Discs.

“Dances of North Africa.” 1995—2006. Los Angeles: Araf Discs.

“Egypt Group of Folk Dance.” n.d. Los Angeles: Saut wa Soora Co.

“Homage to Mahmoud Reda.” 2005. Spain: Nesma Music. Solfeon, Ltd.

“Ibrahim Farrah Presents Rare Glimpses.” 1998, New York.

“Gharam fi al–Karnak.” n.d. Cairo: Gemal Elleissi Films.

“Raqs–ha–ye mahali–ye Iran” n.d. (Iranian Folk Dances, video). New York: Cina.

“Raqs–ha va Avaz–ha–ye Mahalli–ye Iran.” n.d. Tarzana, California: Pars Video. #125.

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