Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt - Softcover

Haeri, Niloofar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312238975 ISBN 13: 9780312238971

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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The cultures and politics of nations around the world may be understood (or misunderstood) in any number of ways. For the Arab world, language is the crucial link for a better understanding of both. Classical Arabic is the official language of all Arab st

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NILOOFAR HAERI is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (1999-2000) and is an internationally recognized scholar of Arabic. She has conducted research on language change and its relation to class and gender in Egypt. Among her publications are The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class, and Education (Kegan Paul International, 1996) and Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics: Papers Published by Charles Ferguson 1948-1992, with K. Belnap (E. J. Brill, 1997).

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312238975
• ISBN 13: 9780312238971
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
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