Halabi, N (2017) The Ancient Walls of Damascus and the Siege of Mouaddamiyya: A Historical and Spatial Analysis of Bounded Place and Cultural Identity. Space and Culture, 20 (4). pp. 441-453. ISSN 1206-3312
Abstract
Throughout the Syrian crisis, the presence of material and symbolic boundaries to culture became a particularly salient element of the continuously unfolding political turmoil. As one terrorist group, Daesh, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, seeks to unite the vast area of the Middle East under the political, religious, and cultural administration of a “Greater State of Syria,” or “al-Sham,” this article revisits the historical spatial organization of Damascus and the construction of city boundaries and walls as factors that contributed to the cultivation of spatially grounded cleavages within Syrian and Damascene identity. In the latter section of this article, I reflect on the impact of these cleavages on the Syrian crisis by focusing on the public response to the siege of the Mouaddamiyya neighborhood.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Space and Culture. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Keywords: | place and identity; walled city; social movements |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2019 15:21 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:49 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1206331217723538 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145969 |