Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East

Octavian Esanu is Assistant Professor of Art History at the American University of Beirut.

Introduction: The Arab Nude: A Genre of the Fine Arts as a Tool of Modernization

[Octavian Esanu]

1. Necessary Nudes: Hadatha and Mu’asara in the Lives of Modern Lebanese

[Kirsten Scheid]

2. Early Representations of Nudity in the Ottoman Press: A Look at Nineteenth-Century Ottoman and Arab Erotic Literature

[Hala Auji]

3. Ideal Nudes and Iconic Bodies in the Works of the Egyptian Pioneers

[Nadia Radwan]

4. The Nudism of Sheikh Fouad Hobeiche

[Hala Bizri]

5. The Feminine Nude as an Expression of Modernism Through the Works of Mahmoud Moukhtar

[Elka Correa]

6. Unveiling the Nude and the Crisis of Manhood

[Nadia Bou Ali]

7. Musallekhah, or the Anti-Nude

[Saleem Al-Baholy]