'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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... shared discourse to show solidarity with Egyptians, allowing them to maintain a dynamic and deliberately unclear position. Finally, I delve into the relationship between gender, identity, and 'otherness' in the Middle East context ...
... shared by all those who live within the current boundaries of Northern Sudan, regardless of their particular ethnic affiliation' (Idris 2001: 27). With the creation of the Democratic Republic of Sudan, Muslim Arab Sudanese were also ...
... shared metanarratives, and results in a subtle demarcation of identity based on superior propriety enacted through gender behaviour. I argue that Sudanese ethnicity is ambiguous precisely because of their situational ability to see ...
... shared norm. Comaroff's presentation of ethnicity as the cultural expression of the structuring of inequality through an exaggeration of differences (Comaroff 1992) therefore does not seem to hold true in the Sudanese case. The ...
... shared identity that have less to do with defining themselves against particular boundaries or dominant groups.5 Indeed, Sudanese ethnicities in the modern cities of the Arabian Gulf, in the villages of Holland, and in the racially ...
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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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