{"product_id":"dissident-syria-making-oppositional-arts-official-paperback","title":"Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiriam Cooke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of protest into official agitprop. Syrian dissidents were forced to negotiate between the desire to genuinely criticize the authoritarian regime, the risk to their own safety and security that such criticism would invite, and the fear that their work would be co-opted as government propaganda, as what miriam cooke calls \"commissioned criticism.\" In this intimate account of dissidence in Asad's Syria, cooke describes how intellectuals attempted to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA renowned scholar of Arab cultures, cooke spent six months in Syria during the mid-1990s familiarizing herself with the country's literary scene, particularly its women writers. While she was in Damascus, dissidents told her that to really understand life under Hafiz Asad, she had to speak with playwrights, filmmakers, and, above all, the authors of \"prison literature.\" She shares what she learned in \u003ci\u003eDissident Syria\u003c\/i\u003e. She describes touring a sculptor's studio, looking at the artist's subversive work as well as at pieces commissioned by the government. She relates a playwright's view that theater is unique in its ability to stage protest through innuendo and gesture. Turning to film, she shares filmmakers' experiences of making movies that are praised abroad but rarely if ever screened at home. Filled with the voices of writers and artists, \u003ci\u003eDissident Syria\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a community of conscience within Syria to those beyond its borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDissident Syria\" is an important and urgent book. In her fascinating account of Syrian cultural productions during the 1990s, miriam cooke documents the abyss between Syrian lived experiences and the rhetoric of the state. She extols the creative minds whose works exemplify the power of art.\"--Susan Slyomovics, author of \"The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emiriam cooke is a professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eWomen Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Women and the War Story \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the coedited collections \u003ci\u003eMuslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOpening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBlood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.67 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457508851965,"sku":"9780822340355","price":57.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/ajU4T1owV0hZdDdka0VVM085YU03QT09.webp?v=1777237981","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/dissident-syria-making-oppositional-arts-official-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}