Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Popular Culture, Transnationality, and Radical History 1
5. I HISTORICAL ARTICULATIONS
6. Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem 27
7. The Palestinian Press in Mandatory Jaffa: Advertising, Nationalism, and the Public Sphere 51
8. Post-Zionism and Its Popular Cultures 77
9. II CINEMAS AND CYBERSPACES
10. Cross/Cast: Passing in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema 99
11. Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps 126
12. Is There a Palestinian Cinema? The National and Transnational in Palestinian Film Production 150
13. III THE POLITICS OF MUSIC
14. Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music 175
15. Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum 202
16. Against Hybridity: The Case of Enrico Macias/Gaston Ghrenassia 231
17. IV REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CIRCUITS
18. ‘‘First Contact’’ and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process 259
19. Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Evangelicalism’s NewWorld Order 288
20. Telling Stories in Palestine: Comix Understanding and Narratives of Palestine-Israel 313
21. Sentimentality and Redemption: The Rhetoric of Egyptian Pop Culture Intifada Solidarity 338
22. Bibliography 365
23. Contributors 397
24. Index 401