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Practices of truth an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts / by Dupret, Baudouin

Table of Contents: “…Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.…”
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Degrees of Dignity : Arab Higher Education in the Global Era / by Buckner, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…6 Between Knowledge and Truth --…”
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Degrees of Dignity : Arab Higher Education in the Global Era / by Buckner, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…6 Between Knowledge and Truth --…”
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Desiring Arabs by Massad, Joseph Andoni, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index.…”
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