{"product_id":"desiring-arabs-joseph-a-massad-9780226509587","title":"Desiring Arabs","description":"Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in \u003ci\u003eDesiring Arabs\u003c\/i\u003e Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. \u003cbr\u003e A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture.\u003cbr\u003e \"A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of  this] work.\"--Khaled El-Rouayheb, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Report\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eDesiring Arabs\u003c\/i\u003e,  Edward] Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . .  Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present.\"--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph A. Massad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226509583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226509587\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 6.45w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2007 pg. 13","brand":"Joseph A. Massad","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069867225343,"sku":"9780226509587","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_699ff51f-8548-4aaa-afc0-9ca8e35436de.jpg?v=1685426966","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desiring-arabs-joseph-a-massad-9780226509587","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}