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Listening to Egyptian and Uyghur Soundscapes: A Review in Letters between Cambridge and Istanbul
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HarrisRachel, Soundscapes in Uyghur Islam. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020. xiv + 251 pp. ISBN 9780253050182 (hard cover); 9780253050205 (paperback); 9780253050199 (ebook).
FahmyZiad, Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. xxiv + 289 pp. ISBN 9781503612013 (hard cover); 9781503613034 (paperback); 9781503613041 (ebook).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2024
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This book review was written in the form of a letter correspondence, allowing us to explore a more dialogic approach to review writing. During the seven-month period of working on the review, we also met and discussed some of the ideas shared below. In writing these letters, we embraced the main theme of the books by being mindful of the soundscapes that surrounded us, and that have inevitably formed part of our final review.
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