1. The American Question

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Questions and Challenges
7. 1. The American Question 17
8. 2. The Politics of American-Style Higher Education in the Middle East 33
9. Part II. Contexts and Implications
10. 3. The American Liberal Education System and Its Development at the American University of Beirut 53
11. 4. Shifting the Gorilla: The Failure of the American Unipolar in the Middle East 76
12. 5. Discourse, Palestine, and the Authoritative News Media 94
13. Part III. Cultural Encounters
14. 6. Arabic Poetry in America 117
15. 7. The Stones We Throw Are Rhymes: Imagining America in Palestinian Hip-Hop 141
16. Part IV. Classroom Encounters
17. 8. American Studies in the Arabian Gulf: Teaching American Politics in Bahrain 171
18. 9. Waiting for Hasan: Lewis Hine, Service Learning, and the Practical Pedagogy of American Studies 202
19. 10. Teaching in the Middle East: Partial Cosmopolitanism 234
20. Contributors 255
21. Index 261