Interpreting welfare and relief in the Middle East:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2008
Series:Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
List of Contributors; Introduction (Nefissa Naguib and Inger Marie Okkenhaug); Orphans and Abandoned Children in Modern Egypt (Beth Baron); A Nation of Widows and Orphans: Armenian Memories of Relief in Jerusalem (Nefi ssa Naguib); Women on a Mission! Scandinavian Welfare and the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905-1917 (Inger Marie Okkenhaug); Building Bonny Babies -- Missionary Welfare Work in Cairo, 1920-1950 (Renate Lunde); Independent Women Missionaries in the Scottish School in Jaffa, 1918-1936: Identifying Subaltern Narratives (Michael Marten)
Based on different problematic and methodological perspectives and sources, this book examines different involvements in welfare activities not only as contextualised in stable communities and nations, but also as they emerge in vulnerable states and disintegrating societies
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 239 pages)
ISBN:9047423739
9789047423737

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