Tarik Sabry: 3 books
Cultural Encounters in the Arab World
On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses...
Arab Subcultures
Transformations in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
What is 'Arab' about Arab subcultures? This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural groups and practices, including film, graffiti, music, live art performances, Arab techies and youth cultures. Contributors tackle a number of questions...
Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts
An Ethnographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children’s uses of digital media in three sites—London, Casablanca and Beirut—and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global...