DS113.P35

- Includes some illustrations in black and white - Includes bibliographical references and an index

Acknowledgments Introduction Popular Culture and the Question of Power: Toward a Rethinking of Palestine and Israel Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg Part 1 Historical Articulations Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem Salim Tamari The Palestinian Press in Mandatory Jaffa: Advertising, Nationalism, and the Public Sphere Mark LeVine Post-Zionism and Its Popular Cultures Ilan Pappé Part 2 Cinemas, Cyberspaces, and Nations Cross/Cast: Passing in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema Carol Bardenstein Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps Laleh Khalili Is There a Palestinian Cinema? The National and Transnational in Palestinian Film Production Livia Alexander Part 3 The Politics of Music Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music Joseph Massad Dueling Nativities: Zahava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum Amy Horowitz Against Hybridity: The Case of Enrico Macias/Gaston Ghrenassia Ted Swedenburg Part 4 Regional and Global Circuits "First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process Rebecca L. Stein Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Fundamentalism's New World Order Melani McAlister Telling Stories in Palestine: Comix Understanding and Narratives of Palestine-Israel Mary Layoun Sentimentality and Redemption: The Rhetoric of Egyptian Pop Culture Intifada Solidarity Elliott Colla Bibliography Contributors