Eastern callings
Domestic tourism and nation-building in Syria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5700568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginie Rey (0000-0002-8476-0319, Deakin University Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 592-607 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2025.2476455 |
| OpenAlex | W4408586806 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 49 |
This paper explores the development of domestic tourism in Syria in the early 1990s. Drawing upon a series of articles published in the national newspaper Al-Bath, it analyses the rhetoric and the symbols used by journalists to domestically promote a new tourism project, the Desert Festival (al-mahradjān al-ṣaḥrāwī). It argues that domestic tourism was used both as a mechanism for economic recovery and a nation-building tool by the Syrian regime. Journalistic narratives revolved around an Arab socialist imagery of unity, progress and modernisation, as well as Orientalist fantasies of desert romance and mystery, inviting nationals to immerse themselves in a Bedouin heritage described as being both familiar and strangely exotic
Archaeology · Domestic tourism · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Tourism · Tourism geography · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society
La construction nationale syrienne
Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics
Conflicted Antiquities
Colonial effects
Power, Sect and State in Syria
The Harem as Biography
Bedouinity on Stage. The Rise of The Bedouin Soap Opera (Musalsal Badawi) in Arab Television
The Settlement of Pastoral Nomads in the Arab Middle East
The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses
Tribal Modern
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change
Tourism Marketing for Developing Countries
Destination Culture
The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
Raqqa, territoires et pratiques sociales d'une ville syrienne
Home and Homeland
Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination
Tourism and the making of the modern Middle East
Usage of the concept of culture and heritage in the United Arab Emirates – an analysis of Sharjah heritage area
Comparing the impact of political instability and terrorism on inbound tourism demand in Syria before and after the political crisis in 2011
Mediterranean tourism. Facets of socioeconomic development and cultural change
Heritage Tourism
Tourism and nationalism
Who's afraid of Syrian nationalism? National and state identity in Syria
The Bedouin in Contemporary Syria
Bedouin Tribes and the Imperial Intelligence Services in Syria, Iraq and Transjordan in the 1920s
Asad of Syria
Syria and the Middle East Peace Process
Tourism in the Middle East
Performing tourism, staging tourism
Vadrouilleurs, Dervishes and Tourists
Contemporary Syria
Spatialities and the feeling of doing
Zones Of Theory In The Anthropology Of The Arab World
Where Have the Bedouin Gone
Poetics and Politics of Newly Invented Traditions in the Gulf
"Bedouin "abjection
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |