Category Archives: Bodman, Herbert
Lebanon: Emblem of Captivity
The topic at hand is Lebanon and political violence in the Middle East from the standpoint of the mid-1980s. According to Herbert Bodman and Jerry Levin, Lebanon at this time is an emblem of captivity, a country in which Christianity … Continue reading
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Feminism, East and West
Leila Ahmed and Herbert Bodman discuss Western notions about women in the Middle East and the Islamic world in the 1980s. Where do these ideas originate and are the perceptions accurate? What is the status of feminism in the Middle … Continue reading
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Iran and the Middle East
With attention to the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran in 1976, Herbert Bodman argues that Wilfred Thesiger’s 1959 travel narrative Arabian Sands–which the Oxford Companion to English Literature calls “a solemn epitaph for traditional Arabia”–is a call … Continue reading