1st Edition
Mass Culture, Popular Culture, And Social Life In The Middle East
This book presents a collection of papers having a common theme in the question of modernity and mass culture. Two papers discuss aspects of this theme in a general, global context, all the others are concerned more specifically with the regional context of the Middle East.
Biography
Georg Stauth is Lecturer at the Sociology of Development Research Centre of the University of Bielefeld. He was Visiting Professor at the Ain Shams University Cairo in 1977/78, at the Cairo University in 1981. Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Flinders University, Adelaide (Australia), in 1985. Various publications on Egypt, Iran, Turkey (peasants and state) - Islam, social theory. Advisory Editor of Theory, Culture and Society. Sami Zubalda is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the Birkbeck College, University of London. Various Visiting Teaching Posts in the Middle East and France. Various books and publications on racism, Islam and Islamist movements and social theory. Co-Editor of Economy and Society.