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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Bilad al-Sham"”.
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Imperial reorderings of land and belonging in Bilad al-Sham: on the disruption of an indigenous ontology of dwelling
… examines how the intertwined processes of colonialism and capitalism in twentieth-century Bilad al-Sham reconfigured Indigenous understandings of land, and how contemporary imperial and neoliberal orders continue to reshape people’s relationships to place. Using my hometown, al-Fuheis, as a case …
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The Tale of Tribes
The Bilad al-Sham, or the Eastern Levant, is a region of land located in the eastern Mediterranean. The Bilad al-Sham culture, referred to as Shammi culture, has an emphasis on self image and resents the tribal culture. The narrative in Jordan is that of a country built on tribal culture and …
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Out of antiquity : Umayyad baths in context
… the early Islamic period to those of pre-Islamic Bilad al-Sham (the region encompassing the modem-day countries of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel), and focuses on the Umayyad bathhouse as a paradigm through which this relationship is articulated. The visual culture of the Umayyad …