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Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party book cover

1st Edition

Social Change in Syria Family, Village and Political Party

By Sulayman N. Khalaf Copyright 2021
360 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s), this book offers a unique perspective on how agrarian transformations in land distribution and its use deeply affected social and political relations among a rural community. Embedding the personal with the local and the global, this work traces the seeds of social,... Read more

Part 1: Introduction and context

1. The native anthropologist

2. The old order

3. The Euphrates Express: expansion of the entrepreneurial capitalist economy and the solidification of state order

4. The party/state and politics of mobilization

5. Hawi Al-Hawa village: an outline of its origin and development

Part 2: History in individual lives

6. Hajj Khalaf al-Ibrahim al-Meshrif

7. Al-Mukhtar Mahmoud

8. Tieba Najm al-Khalaf

9. Doctor Najm al-Ramadan

10. Omar al-Hasan

11. Ustaz Omar al-Abdallah

12. Ustaz Comrade Hussein al-Assaf

13. Nahar al-Ibrahim

Part 3: Analysis and update

14. Reconstruction of socio-historical processes at the micro level

15.Peace and war in Hawi al-Hawa

Biography

Sulayman Khalaf is a distinguished Syrian anthropologist. With a PhD from UCLA, he has published widely on Syria, Gulf Arab societies, and tribal communities. He taught at several Gulf universities and is an expert in intangible heritage. He retired in 2015 and now lives in Exeter.

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