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'Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East by Dalya Cohen-Mor is a perceptive study of father-son relations in Arab history and contemporary Arab society. Drawing from a wide range of literary sources, from Yahya Haqqi's The Saint's Lamp (with its father figure who sacrifices everything for his son's education), to the troubled childhood and neglect experienced in Hanna Mina's Fragments of Memory, the study encompasses all kinds of familial relationships. Particularly interesting are the different themes explored in poetry and politics, and notably the analogy drawn between father/ruler and son/citizen in the context of political oppression and the recent Arab uprisings (by way, for example, of an analysis of Tunisian rapper El General's "Ra'is Lebled"). The study also sheds light on some of the burdens borne even to this day by fathers and sons living in the Arab world.' Banipal: Magazine for Modern Arab Literature
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Book Title: Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East
Authors: Dalya Cohen-Mor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137335203
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Dalya Cohen-Mor 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33519-7Published: 07 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46294-0Published: 07 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33520-3Published: 07 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 234
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Literature, general, Middle Eastern Culture, Sociology, general, Ethnicity Studies