The Shiʼites of Lebanon : modernism, communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists by Abisaab, Rula Jurdi, Abisaab, Malek

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The Shiʻites and Grand Liban -- Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle -- Communists in the Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state -- The "Shiʼite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq -- Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left -- Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah -- The Islamists and civil society -- The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state -- Conclusion.…”
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Militant women of a fragile nation by Abisaab, Malek

Table of Contents: “…From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon -- Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times -- At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946 -- Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980 -- Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997 -- "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965.…”
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