Arab youth :  social mobilization in times of risk / 
edited by Samir Khalaf and Roseanne Saad Khalaf. 
 - London :  Saqi,  2011. 
 - 415 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-407) and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt. 1. Youth as a social category. Youth as a social category and as a social process / Johanna Wyn -- Reclaiming youthfulness / Asef Bayat -- The negotiation of waithood : the political economy of delayed marriage in Egypt / Diane Singerman -- The demographic youth bulge and social rupture / Youssef Courbage -- pt. 2. Negotiating identity in times of risk. Social learning and community participation : youth at risk in two marginalized urban neighborhoods in Amman, Jordan / Curtis N. Rhodes, Jr., Haytham A. Mihyar, and Ghada Abu El-Rous -- Saudi youth : initiative and inertia / Mai Yamani -- Between silences and screams : the Lebanese postmemory experience / Craig Larkin -- pt. 3. Representation and self-perception. The politics of fun in the Islamic Republic of Iran : re-creation of recreation / Pardis Mahdavi -- Idealistic and indignant young Lebanese / Roseanne Saad Khalaf -- In good times or bad? : discourse on the national identity of Lebanese upper class youth / Nicolien Kegels -- pt. 4. Militancy and street violence. Male gender and rituals of resistance in Palestinian intifada : a cultural politics of violence / Julie Peteet -- Revenge of the wretched : Islam and violence in the Bab al Tabaneh neighborhood of Tripoli / Mohammad Abi Samra -- Neighborhood violence among youth gangs in the southern suburbs of Beirut (Chiah) / Fidel Sbeity -- pt. 5. Voluntarism and civil society. Uniforms and salutes : fascism and youth politics in Syria and Lebanon under French rule / Jennifer Dueck -- Youth networks, space, and political mobilization : Lebanon's independence intifada / Christian Gahre -- pt. 6. Popular culture and music. Sanctioned pleasures : youth negotiations of leisure sites and morality in al-Dahiya / Lara Deeb and Mona Harb -- European Muslim youth : towards a cool Islam? / Miriam Gazzah -- Music consumption and the navigation of identities : transnational Moroccan youth in Britain / Carolyn Landau -- Scratch the past--this is our soundtrack : hip-hop in Lebanon / Angie Nassar. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0863564577 (pbk.) 9780863564574 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Youth--Political activity--Middle East.<br/>Youth--Social conditions.--Middle East
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ799.M628  / A739 2011