Arab Cultural Studies

Anastasia Valassopoulos is a Lecturer in World Literature at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial literature, culture of the Middle East and North Africa and the wider cultural production and reception of Arab women's film and music. She is the author of Contemporary Arab Women Writers (2007), and has also published work on Arab film and music, Middle Eastern feminism and Arab-American Writing.

• Foreword Dina Matar 1. Introduction: Arab Cultural Studies Anastasia Valassopoulos 2. Arab Cultural Studies – Thinking Aloud: Theorizing and Planning for the Future of a Discipline Anastasia Valassopoulos, Tarik Sabry, Caroline Rooney, Mark Westmoreland, Adel Iskandar and Rasha Salti 3. Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony and the Gaza War Rebecca L. Stein 4. A History of New Media in the Arab Middle East Walter Armbrust 5. Impossible Intimacies: Towards a Visual Politics of "Touch" at the Israeli-Palestinian Border Anna Ball 6. Consuming Palestine: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Metropolitan Popular Culture Anna Bernard 7. Broken Heart of the City: Youssef Chahine’s Bab al-Hadid (Cairo Station) Joel Gordon 8. Satellite Arcades: Three-Dimensional Puppets and the Coin-Operated Interface Iman Hamam 9. Popular Culture and Nationalism in Egypt: ‘Arab Lotfi and Egyptian Popular Music Dalia Said Mostafa 10. Life Is Like a Bowl of Fish: The Aquarium, the French New Wave and the Urban Reflection of the Cairene Self Karim Tartoussieh 11. The Moderation of Creative Dissidence in Syria: Reem Ali’s Documentary Zabad Stefanie Van de Peer