Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural
memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a …

The Lebanese are the largest group of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States, and
Lebanese immigrants are also prominent across Europe and the Americas. Based on over …

Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in
the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, and large-scale economic …

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WOMEN OF ARAB DOCUMENTARY STEFANIE VAN DE PEER Page 2 Negotiating …

On the one hand, this invitation to meet the corpse should not be mistaken for a call to
embrace materiality, a return to hard facts and familiar corporeality. For a corpse is precisely …

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about
those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities–the flow of …

This article is about the ways in which counter-hegemony is expressed in performance art
dealing with notions of public space and the publics. The article examines two works of art …

In this article, I explore how national belonging in Lebanon is (re) negotiated in the aftermath
of a protracted civil war. More particularly, I investigate the nostalgic underpinnings of …

There is now a growing body of literature about Arab cinema; some provide a selected
chronology and encyclopedic entries of actors and films (Ginsberg & Lippard 2010), while …

This thesis critically examines a range of transnational fashion and beauty practices as
narrative spaces employed by young London Congolese to embody their individual and …