Dancing in Damascus Prof. James S. Dickson

Dancing in Damascus Prof. James S. DicksonThese nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus, as well as the possibilities of writing ethnography as fiction. Growing out of the author's anthropological fieldwork in Syria, these nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus. Available here together for the first time in English, they confound popular stereotypes of Arab women and men as fundamentalists, terrorists, and victims of the Gulf War. The

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