{ "item_title" : "The First Arabs", "item_author" : [" Yoav Di-Capua "], "item_description" : "A landmark history of the extraordinary young Arabs of the 1960s who fought heroically to build lives of dignity for their people On October 1, 1970, more than five million people from across the Middle East gathered in Cairo for the funeral of Egyptian president Gamal ʿAbd al-Nasser. But the funeral wasn't only for Nasser. In many ways, it was also a requiem for the revolutionary pan-Arab movement that bore his name--and for the era of Arab optimism and confidence that he had defined. The mourners in Cairo--and millions of others who held vigils across the region--were what historian Yoav Di-Capua calls the First Arabs: young men and women who embraced Nasser's emancipatory politics of dignity and fought heroically to make Nasserism a reality. The First Arabs tells their remarkable and dramatic story, spanning the Arab world of the Eastern Mediterranean from the 1940s to the early 1970s. This riveting generational story is told through the eyes of the First Arabs themselves--revolutionaries, feminists, poets, novelists, literary critics, philosophers, teachers, journalists, ideologues, singers, and filmmakers. Drawing on their rich records, much of it previously unstudied, The First Arabs sheds new light on their dreams and their extraordinary efforts to secure lives worth living. From the depths of colonial domination, they rose to the heights of hard-won sovereignty, only to be brought low again by the self-made disaster of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Yet with their politics of dignity, they created a powerful legacy and a distinct human-rights tradition. A work of immense scope and depth, The First Arabs is a comprehensive account of Arab life in the mid-twentieth century, a crucial period that continues to profoundly influence events in the Middle East.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/69/129/945/0691299455_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "35.00", "online_price" : "35.00", "our_price" : "35.00", "club_price" : "35.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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