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Middle Eastern societies and the West : accommodation or clash of civilizations? / edited by Meir Litvak.

Title
Middle Eastern societies and the West : accommodation or clash of civilizations? / edited by Meir Litvak.
Publication
Tel Aviv : Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Litvak, Meir.
  • Merkaz Dayan le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-Tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah (Universiṭat Tel-Aviv)
Description
319 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Civilization, Western > Congresses
  • Culture conflict > Congresses
  • Islamic civilization > Congresses
  • Middle East > Civilization
  • Middle East > Relations > Europe
  • Middle East > Relations > United States
  • Middle East > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • "... product of an international conference held ... on 16-17 December 2002".
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. I. Middle Eastern states and the West -- The Middle Eastern state and the West / Gabriel Ben-Dor -- The clash of civilizations or their decay? an Iraqi perspective / Ofra Bengio -- Bashar al-Asad: between East and West / Eyal Zisser -- Globalization vis-a-vis traditional cultures and nationalism: the case of Turkey / Aryeh Shmuelevitz -- Globalization and the Middle East economy: challenge and response / Paul Rivlin -- Pt. II. Middle Eastern cultures and the West -- Comparing the culture wars in Israel and the Muslim Middle East / Henry Munson -- Shall East and West never meet? the civilizational debate in contemporary Arab-Muslim discourse / Rivka Yadlin -- The clash of values: Islamists and the 1994 UN International Conference on population and development in Cairo / Mordechai Kedar -- Arab perceptions of globalization / Esther Webman -- Islamic democracy vs. western democracy: the debate among Islamists / Meir Litvak -- Modern Sufi attitudes toward the West: four Naqshbandi case studies / Itzchak Weismann -- Muslims and Islam in France: from Dar al-Harb to "Dar al-Laicite" / Dan Eldar -- Islam in Europe: interaction with the wider world and perspectives on conflict resolution / Remy Leveau -- Haredim and western culture:a view from both sides of the ocean / Kimmy Caplan -- Iranian cinema goes universal / Eldad J. Pardo.
ISBN
9652240737
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library