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This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's new materials, methods, and motives.

Architecture, as physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing the tensions between achieving both international relevance and regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a range of diverse practices.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation
  2. pp. 3-36
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  1. Part I: Colonial Constructions
  1. 1. Jerusalem Remade
  2. pp. 39-60
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  1. 2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya
  2. pp. 61-78
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  1. Part II: Building the Nation
  1. 3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad
  2. pp. 81-96
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  1. 4. Baghdad’s Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building
  2. pp. 97-115
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  1. 5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s
  2. pp. 116-138
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  1. 6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel
  2. pp. 139-160
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  1. 7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem
  2. pp. 161-185
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  1. 8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo
  2. pp. 186-217
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  1. Part III: Overviews and Openings
  1. 9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge
  2. pp. 221-254
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  1. 10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context
  2. pp. 255-266
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 267-287
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 289-292
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 293-303
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