'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in EgyptBerghahn Books, 1. 3. 2008 - Počet stran: 204 Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community. |
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... relationship between the two Nile Valley polities is tempered by historical ties, common interests, and shared bonds, as the term 'ashshiqaΔ', or 'full siblings', attests. Overarching identities such as Islam and Arab nationalism have ...
... relationship Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have with Sudanese from other ethnic groups. Sudanese in Cairo have evolved a situational and gendered ethnicity that, instead of constructing sharp, externally distinct boundaries calls upon ...
... relationships. The cultural content of Sudanese ethnic identity in Egypt, in the context of their displacement and uncertainty during the mid-1990s, is shaped by these strategies, as well as by ambivalence over the place of Sudanese in ...
... relationships my study explores, it provides a basis for understanding the complex identity hinted at by the label 'Muslim Arab Sudanese'. This complexity is further taken up in the next section, while the interrelations between the ...
... relationship between gender, identity, and 'otherness' in the Middle East context. Arguing that gender propriety is the linchpin upon which Sudanese ambiguous ethnicity hinges, I tap into a significant literature that analyses the ...
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Part IIModernity and Otherness | 51 |
Chapter 3Creating Foreigners Becoming Exiles | 53 |
Chapter 4Presenting Sudanese Differences | 77 |
Part IIINeither Brothers nor Others | 95 |
Chapter 5Muslim Arab Adab and Sudanese Ethnicity | 97 |
Chapter 6A Sudanese Culture of Exile in Cairo | 121 |
Chapter 7Gender Diaspora and Transformation | 151 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 179 |
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