{"product_id":"desiring-arabs-paperback","title":"Desiring Arabs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph A. Massad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in \u003ci\u003eDesiring Arabs\u003c\/i\u003e Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization.\u003cbr\u003e A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture.\u003cbr\u003e \"A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work.\"-Khaled El-Rouayheb, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReport\u003c\/i\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eDesiring Arabs\u003c\/i\u003e, [Edward] Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present.\"-\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph A. Massad\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eColonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 472\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.7 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724596088895,"sku":"9780226509594","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bcb3db8d1ca0e15c586ca2b7f1742de0_5c9064fd-6e14-4f1c-80e5-7591cda2ab70.webp?v=1765103218","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/desiring-arabs-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}