M I D D L E E A S T S T U D I E S - Israel & Palestine / North African Studies
The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East
Youth and Conflict in IsraelPalestine
Liat Berdugo
Victoria Biggs, University of Sheffield, UK
Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine
Using video stills from over 5,000 hours of footage from the private archive of B’Tselem as core material, this book explores the politics of videographic practice in Israel/Palestine. The book analyses citizen surveillance: how Palestinians originally filmed to “shoot back” at Israelis, and also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras, including personal cell phone cameras, thus creating a simultaneous, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice, the Weaponized Camera asks how what is seen, but also who is seeing, affects how conflicts are visually recorded and thus offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/ Palestine conflict. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 286 pages • 65 bw illus. 32 colour in plates PB 9780755637454 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838602710 ePub 9781838602734 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781838602741 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
How are forbidden histories and memories retold in Israel/Palestine? This book investigates the feelings and attitudes of young people from both Palestinian refugee camps and right-wing settlement homes. Victoria Biggs argues that the stories of these young people can reveal much more about their feelings and experiences than qualitative interviews or quantitative research. In the book these stories are anaylsed to reveal the young people’s views about borders, unseen places, violence, identity, memory and those they see as ‘the other’. The book shows that boundary spaces are fertile ground for the transmission of stories and forbidden memories. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 208 pages PB 9780755636600 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838604905 ePub 9781838604929 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781838604912 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
Understanding Revolutions Laughter in Occupied Palestine Comedy and Identity in Art and Film
Chrisoula Lionis, University of Manchester, UK This is the first book to provide a combined overview of Palestinian art and film, showing the ways in which both art forms have developed in response to critical moments in Palestinian history over the last century. These key moments, Lionis argues, have radically transformed contemporary Palestinian collective identity and in turn Palestinian cultural output. Mapping these critical junctions - beginning with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the Oslo Accords in 1993 - she explores the historical trajectory of Palestinian art and film, and explains how to the failure of the peace process has led to the present proliferation of humour in Palestinian visual culture. UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 256 pages • 23 bw integrated PB 9780755646258 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784532888 ePub 9780857729798 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePdf 9780857727817 • £85.50 / $112.04 I.B. Tauris
The Berbers of Morocco A History of Resistance Michael Peyron
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Storytelling, Contested Space and the Politics of Memory
Opening Acts in Tunisia
Azmi Bishara, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar The Tunisian Revolution is the only revolt of the Arab Spring that is widely considered to have ‘succeeded’. In this book, published in English for the first time, Azmi Bishara grapples with the specific political make-up of Tunisia, and how it determined the survival of the revolution. The book answers several important questions, such as how must social movements deal with states which refuse to participate in the dialectic process of reform; and what happens when a regime leverages fissures in collective identity to threaten the breakup of not just the state, but the entire social fabric of a country? UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 328 pages • 3 maps HB 9781784532222 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755644735 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755644728 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris World All Languages (except Arabic)
Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Morocco A History of a Minority Community
Kristin Hissong, King's College London, UK
From the Rif War to the rebellion of 1958, the Berbers (Imazighen) have played a central role in the history of Moroccan resistance to colonialism in the twentieth-century. This book provides an indepth overview of Berber resistance to the French campaigns of 'Pacification', and the subsequent struggle over Berber identity in the independence era. Relying on a wealth of oral sources and extensive field-work, it provides the most complete history to date of one of the most important Berber communities in North Africa.
This book writes Morocco’s rich Jewish heritage back into the protectorate period and explains why the country’s national identity shifted so dramatically. At the heart of the book are interviews with Moroccan Jews who lived during the French Protectorate, remain in Morocco, and who can reflect personally on everyday Jewish life during this era. The book also provides analysis of the competing nationalist narratives that played such a large part in the making of Morocco’s identity: French cultural-linguistic assimilation, Political Zionism, and Moroccan nationalism.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 352 pages • 51 bw illus PB 9780755639359 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838600464 ePub 9781838603755 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781838603731 • £81.00 / $106.83 I.B. Tauris
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 248 pages PB 9780755639366 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838607388 ePub 9781838607401 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781838607395 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
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