Practicing Transnationalism : : American Studies in the Middle East / / ed. by Edward J. Lundy, Eileen T. Lundy.

• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Betty S.,; Cavell, Colin,; Elayyan, Hani Ismail,; Lucas, Scott,; Lundy, Edward J.,; Mcdonald, David A.,; Mcgreevy, Patrick,; Noori, Neema,; Peterson, Luke,; Sampsell-Willmann, Kate,
• HerausgeberIn: Lundy, Edward J.,; Lundy, Eileen T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, American studies programs began to spread in the Middle East. During a time of rising anti-American sentiment, ten major programs were established in the region. What impulses propelled universities in the Middle East to establish these centers and pr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Questions and Challenges
• 1. The American Question
• 2. The Politics of American-Style Higher Education in the Middle East
• Part II. Contexts and Implications
• 3. The American Liberal Education System and Its Development at the American University of Beirut
• 4. Shifting the Gorilla: The Failure of the American Unipolar in the Middle East
• 5. Discourse, Palestine, and the Authoritative News Media
• Part III. Cultural Encounters
• 6. Arabic Poetry in America
• 7. The Stones We Throw Are Rhymes: Imagining America in Palestinian Hip-Hop
• Part IV. Classroom Encounters
• 8. American Studies in the Arabian Gulf: Teaching American Politics in Bahrain
• 9. Waiting for Hasan: Lewis Hine, Service Learning, and the Practical Pedagogy of American Studies
• 10. Teaching in the Middle East: Partial Cosmopolitanism
• Contributors
• Index