1st Edition
Work and Leisure in the Middle East The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
By Robert A. Stebbins
Copyright 2012
220 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Community involvement and leisure are rarely mentioned in mass media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa.Yet leisure and community involvement form a part of life in the region, and are becoming increasingly significant as modernization becomes pervasive. This work seeks to examine how the interconnection of work and leisure operates in a culture far removed from North American or... Read more
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1Introduction 2The Serious Leisure Perspective 3Islam and the Serious Pursuits in the MENA: A History 4Contemporary Arab/Iranian Leisure, Work, and Community Involvement 5Leisure, Work, and Cultural Development 6Serious Pursuits of the Brutal Kind 7Implications for the Arab/Iranian MENA 8Into the Future References Index
Biography
Robert A. Stebbins
