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| America in An Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology | 
 enlarge | Creator: Kamal Abdel-malek
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1672662
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0312229631
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92
EAN: 9780312229634
ASIN: 0312229631
Publication Date: July 7, 2000
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Product Description
This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. The country figures as everything from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive female, to the Other who is both praiseworthy and reprehensible.
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Short but interesting August 28, 2006
I bought this book in order to read the piece by Sayyid Qutb, who is considered the intellectual father of Al-Qaeda. Although his observations on America were naive, they are not completely without merit and often display valuable insights. Other pieces range from discussions that are carefully reasoned and balanced to those that are outright attacks. Others are comic and satirical. Really, reading this book left me wanting more of these sort of articles to read. If only this book had been longer! Many of the articles were too short, probably because the translators did not want to spend very much time.
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