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Int. J. Middle East Stud. 44 (2012)
2012
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(See, for example, Esra Özyürek's two books, Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey [Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006] and The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey [Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2007] or Amy Mills' Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul [Atlanta, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2010] on Turkey; for Lebanon, see Sune Haugbolle's War and Memory in Lebanon [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010], Craig Larkin's Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past [London: Routledge, 2012], Aseel Sawalha's Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City [Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2010], or Lucia Volk's Martyrs and Memorials in Modern Lebanon [Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2010].) The contrasts catalogued in the conclusion therefore come as no surprise: formal and informal holidays (defined by the closure or operation of government offices and businesses); \"soft\" and \"hard\" celebrations (defined by the extent to which they are scripted); \"thin\" and \"thick\" calendars (depending on the frequency of holidays in a year); fragmented and cohesive or imposed and consensual commemorations; secular and religious (as well as hybrid) holidays; elite and popular celebrations; and celebrations that border on personality cult (Iraq) vs. celebrations that avoid human veneration (Saudi Arabia). Podeh further explains that \"the most common ceremonies and rituals are the laying of wreaths on tombs, prayers and other religious rituals, military and civilian parades and processions, public speeches, inauguration ceremonies, oath taking, the laying of foundation stones, graduation ceremonies, artistic shows and exhibitions, the use of state symbols (flag, anthem, and emblem), the hanging of portraits of the ruler, the use of fireworks and events carried out by--and for the edification of--schoolchildren\" (pp. 298-99). Department of International Relations, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Calif.; e-mail: lvolk@sfsu.edu
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Subject
/ Closure
/ Holidays & special occasions
/ Memory
/ Parades
/ Politics
/ Rituals
/ Speeches
/ State and municipal relations
/ War
