Stein, Rebecca L.; Swedenburg, Ted

Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

Acknowledgments vii Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg Introduction: Popular Culture, Transnationality, and Radical History 1(26) I HISTORICAL ARTICULATIONS Salim Tamari Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem 27(24) Mark LeVine The Palestinian Press in Mandatory Jaffa: Advertising, Nationalism, and the Public Sphere 51(26) Ilan Pappé Post-Zionism and Its Popular Cultures 77(22) II CINEMAS AND CYBERSPACES Carol Bardenstein Cross/Cast: Passing in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema 99(27) Laleh Khalili Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps 126(24) Livia Alexander Is There a Palestinian Cinema? The National and Transnational in Palestinian Film Production 150(25) III THE POLITICS OF MUSIC Joseph Massad Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music 175(27) Amy Horowitz Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum 202(29) Ted Swedenburg Against Hybridity: The Case of Enrico Macias/Gaston Ghrenassia 231(28) IV REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CIRCUITS Rebecca L. Stein "First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process 259(29) Melani McAlister Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Evangelicalism's New World Order 288(25) Mary Layoun Telling Stories in Palestine: Comix Understanding and Narratives of Palestine-Israel 313(25) Elliott Colla Sentimentality and Redemption: The Rhetoric of Egyptian Pop Culture Intifada Solidarity 338(27) Bibliography 365(32) Contributors 397(4) Index 401