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Two-thirds of the population in the Middle East are under 25 years old and, though many now have university degrees, thre aren't enough jobs to go round. They're having a collective quarter-life crisis. In the months before turning 25 herself, Allegra Stratton set out to meet them. She visits Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Kuwait City, and Damascus - moving with the Middle Eastern ripple of change: Iraq's first post-Saddam elections, Lebanon's Cedar Revolution, Mubarak's decision to hold multi-candidate elections and Kuwait giving women the vote. She looks for youth culture as we know it - hip-hop artists, pop musicians and film-makers - but soon discovers these are a minority pursuit. Instead, a massive video industry of airbrushed, heavily produced, scantily clad singers hold the affections of young Arabs. And there's a contradiction. Many of the fans of these semi-naked popstrels are also very devout. 'Muhajabah' means one who veils. These veiled but sexily dressed young women, then, are the Muhajababes.
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Muhajababes, Allegra Stratton
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Muhajababes
- Untertitel
- Meet the New Middle East - Cool, Sexy and Devout
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Allegra Stratton
- Verlag
- Constable & Robinson
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 292
- ISBN10
- 1845294270
- ISBN13
- 9781845294274
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Karten & Reisen, Wahre Geschichten, Reisen, Reiseberichte, Muslime, Naher und Mittlerer Osten
- Bewertung
- 2,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Two-thirds of the population in the Middle East are under 25 years old and, though many now have university degrees, thre aren't enough jobs to go round. They're having a collective quarter-life crisis. In the months before turning 25 herself, Allegra Stratton set out to meet them. She visits Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Kuwait City, and Damascus - moving with the Middle Eastern ripple of change: Iraq's first post-Saddam elections, Lebanon's Cedar Revolution, Mubarak's decision to hold multi-candidate elections and Kuwait giving women the vote. She looks for youth culture as we know it - hip-hop artists, pop musicians and film-makers - but soon discovers these are a minority pursuit. Instead, a massive video industry of airbrushed, heavily produced, scantily clad singers hold the affections of young Arabs. And there's a contradiction. Many of the fans of these semi-naked popstrels are also very devout. 'Muhajabah' means one who veils. These veiled but sexily dressed young women, then, are the Muhajababes.