Art and Politics between the Arab World and Latin America /

Intertwined with the histories of Arab migration to the Americas from the nineteenth century until now, the emergence of competing nationalist narratives within Arab communities in Latin America, and the birth of anti-imperialist and anticolonial struggles, the history of cultural entanglements betw...

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Other Authors: Guirguis, Laure (Editor), Pabón, Maru (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Islamicate and Ibero-American World Connections ; 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Call Number: F1419.A72

Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  •   Laure Guirguis and Maru Pabón
  • 1 "Talk to Me on the Phone Once a Day": Arab Migration to Brazil, Music, and Memory
  •   Diogo Bercito
  • 2 The 1910 Centenary Plaque: The Memory and Heritage of Arab Communities in Córdoba, Argentina
  •   Juan José Vagni and Julia Solana Jáuregui
  • 3 Artful Experiments in Arab Brasiliana, 1948-1964
  •   John Tofik Karam
  • 4 Looking to Mexico: Hamed Ewais, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Egypt's Workers
  •   Gabriella Nugent
  • 5 Ethnicity, Aesthetics, and Argentine National Identity in Ricardo Halac's Early Plays
  •   Silvina Schammah Gesser
  • 6 Towards a Cinema of Liberation: Links between Political Filmmakers from Latin America and the Arab World during the 1960s-1970s
  •   Olivier Hadouchi and Mariano Mestman
  • 7 Understanding Third-Worldist Literary Exchange: National Writers' Unions in Cuba and Algeria
  •   Maru Pabón
  • 8 The Postcolonial Question in Documentary Movies on the Arab World in Argentina: Néstor Suleiman's Critical Insights
  •   Edgardo Manero and María Laura Reali
  • Afterword: Toward a Cultural Political Economy of Arab-Latin American Relations
  •   Kevin Funk
  • Index.