Introduction: youth, history and change in the modern Arab world / Jørgen Bæk Simonsen -- "Watan" and "Rujula": the emergence of a new model of youth in interwar Iraq / Peter Wien -- The discovery of adolescence in the Middle East / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Discovering the other: "Arab/Jewish" youth encounters in Arab films / Ala al-Harmarnah -- New trends in the young Egyptian theatre: Ahmad al-'Attâr and The Temple Independent Company / Monica Ruocco -- Young, male and Sufi Muslim in the City of Damascus / Leif Stenberg -- Interpreting discourses of honour in the evolving dating culture of young Cairenes from an Asian yin and yang perspective / Ikran Eum -- The construction of "youth" in public discourse in Turkey: a generational approach / Leyla Neyzi -- Youth, moral and Islamism: spending your leisure time with Hamas in Palestine / Michael Irving Jensen -- Youth in Morocco: how does the use of the Internet shape the daily life of the youth and what are its repercussions? / Ines Baune -- Iranian youth and cartoons in the Islamic Republic under President Khatami / Farian Sabahi -- Youth culture and official state discourse in Iran / Claus V. Pedersen
Summary
A new youth culture is underway in the Modern Middle East. This culture is based on a concept of youth from the late 1800s, a concept which played a role in the anti-colonial struggle and which influences the way in which youth views itself in relation to traditional values as well as the West
Notes
Articles originally presented at a conference in Damascus in December 2002
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