Table of contents for Dissident Syria : making oppositional arts official / Miriam Cooke.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction 
1. "Culture Is Humanity's Highest Need" 
As If . . . 000 / Slogans, Slogans Everywhere 000 / 
Freedom and Democracy 000
2. Our Literature Does Not Leave the Country
Nadia al-Ghazzi 000 / Colette al-Khuri 000 
3. No Such Thing as Women's Literature 
Ulfat Idilbi 000 / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani 000 / 
Nadia Khust and the Nadwa 000
4. Commissioned Criticism 000
 Culture after the Fall of the Wall 000 / Commissioned Criticism 000 / 
The Fantasy of Choice 000
5. Dissident Performances 000
 	Performing Dissidence 000 / The Ghoul 000 / 
Historical Miniatures 000
6. Filming Dreams 000
 The Extras 000 / Dreaming Features 000 / 
 Documenting Dreams 000 
7. Lighten Your Step 000
 	Ibrahim Samuil 000 / Waiting 000 / Ghassan al-Jaba'i 000 / 
 	Lessons from a Rogue State 000 /
8. Leaving Damascus 000
Postscript 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Syria -- Intellectual life.
Dissenters, Artistic -- Syria.
Art -- Political aspects -- Syria.
Arabic literature -- Syria -- History and criticism.
Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.