Memory And Violence in the Middle East And North Africa

." . . constitutes an important and much needed intervention on the themes of memory and violence in Middle East studies." ?Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara The Middle East and North Africa form a region united by historic armed conflicts and repeated international efforts towards peace. This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between memories of past violence and the violence of present memories, contextualizing all contemporary efforts at conflict resolution in case study. These studies point to the failure of official attempts to forget past conflicts, and the local successes that forge at least partial peaces between individuals and groupsMakdisi, Ussama is the author of 'Memory And Violence in the Middle East And North Africa ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780253346551 and ISBN 025334655X.