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Sports and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2019

Murat C. Yıldız
Murat C. Yıldız*
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History Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; e-mail: [email protected]
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , August 2019 , pp. 468 - 471
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2 Murat C. Yıldız, “Strengthening Male Bodies and Building Robust Communities: Physical Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire” (PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2015); Murat C. Yıldız, “Mapping the ‘Sports Nahda’: Toward a History of Sports in the Modern Middle East,” in Sports, Society, and Politics in the Middle East, ed. Danyel Tobias Reiche and Tamir Sorek (London: C. Hurst & Co, forthcoming).

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5 Prestel, Emotional Cities, 179; “Nadi,” al-Hilal (1 May 1904), 538.

6 On at least one very early occasion in the Maghrib, sports and music converged significantly. See Chris Silver, “Saoud l'Oranais – Gheniet U.S.M.O. – Polyphon, 1934,” Gharamophone, accessed 10 April 2019, https://gharamophone.com/2019/04/10/saoud-loranais-gheniet-u-s-m-o-polyphon-1934/?fbclid=IwAR0ut7QSbWbwd8NUMzUhOqM2NjH0t4G_rKWshnboqJGrnsRjf_Xe4U8FICE