America in an Arab mirror [Elektronisk resurs] images of America in Arabic travel literature, 1668 to 9/11 and beyond / edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek and Mouna El Kahla.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of Accounts of Arab Travelers to America According to Their Date of Publication (1668-2008); I America in the Eyes of Anineteenth-Century Arab; II The Making of an Image: America as the Unchanged Other, America as the Seductive Female; III America: The Dream and the Reality, The American as an Example to Emulate; IV America in the Eyes of Arab Women Travelers; V Satirical Views of America; VI Colonial Spanish America in the Eyes of a Seventeenth-Century Arab (1668). 
• VII Early Egyptian Travelers in America: Muhammad Ali Pasha's Trip in 1912VIII Accounts of Arab Travelers to America Between 1996 and 2000; IX Accounts of Arab Travelers to America After 9/11; Appendix: Accounts of Arab Travelers to America Unlisted in Part One: Sinbad in the New World, Husayn Fawzi (1984); Index. 

• This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. The country figures as everything from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive female, to the Other wh 

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Araber  (sao)

Arab Americans. 

Arab Americans --Attitudes. 

Arab Americans --Biography. 

Arabs --Travel --United States --History --20th century. 

Arabs. 

Travelers' writings, Arabic. 

Travelers' writings, Arabic --Translations into English. 

United States --Description and travel. 

United States --Foreign public opinion, Arab. 

United States --Social life and customs --20th century. 

Arabs  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

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Reseskildringar  (saogf)

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

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E161.5 .A43 2000eb (LCC)

917.30492 (DDC)

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