Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa

Taylor & Francis

The question of identity in relation to language has hardly been dealt with in the Middle East and North Africa, in spite of the centrality of these issues to a variety of scholarly debates concerning this strategically important part of the world. The book seeks to cover a variety of themes in this area. > The question of identity in relation to language has hardly been dealt with in the Middle East and North Africa, in spite of the centrality of these issues to a variety of scholarly debates concerning this strategically important part of the world. The book seeks to cover a variety of themes in this area. > Introduction, Yasir Suleiman; Chapter 1 Divided Loyalties: Language and Ethnic Identity in the Arab World, Mike Holt; Chapter 2 Language and Identity in Egyptian Nationalism, Yasir Suleiman; Chapter 3 Language, Ethnicity and National Identity in the Tunisian Ethnic Joke, Ibrahim Muhawi; Chapter 4 Ethnolinguistic Communication in Tunisian Streets: Convergence and Divergenc;