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ajiss-2442	Ghadbian, Najib	The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State By Halim Barakat. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 348 pp.	1994.0	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2214	75	43	Barakat’s proposed approach to the analysis of Arab society is one that he characterizes as dynamic (treating society as changing rather than static), dialectical (emphasizing social contradictions and class struggle), and critical (aimed at transforming the status quo). While Barakat is very critical of the orientalist obsession with stasis and division in the Arab world, he does not overlook the inter- nal contradictions of Arab society.	cache/ajiss-2442.pdf	txt/ajiss-2442.txt