BOOKS - The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities
The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities - Lorenzo Kamel March 1, 2019 PDF  BOOKS
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The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities
Author: Lorenzo Kamel
Year: March 1, 2019
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.8 MB
Language: English

This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East - based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages - shows the transition from an internal history characterised by local realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history largely imagined and imposed by external actors. The author demonstrates how the once-heterogeneous identities of Middle Eastern peoples were sealed into a standardised and uniform version that persists to this day. He also sheds light on the efforts that peoples in the region - in the context of a new process of homogenisation of diversities - are exerting in order to get back into history, regaining possession of their multifaceted pasts.

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