Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine: Library of Modern Middle East Studies, cartea 121

Dina Matar is Senior Lecturer in Arab media and International Political Communication at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. A former foreign correspondent in the Middle East and elsewhere, she is author of What it means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (I.B.Tauris, 2010), and co-editor/founder of the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'. Zahera Harb is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism, City University, London. A former broadcast journalist in Lebanon working for Lebanese and international media organisations, she is the author of Channels of Resistance in Lebanon, Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media (I.B.Tauris, 2011).

1 Approaches to Narrating Conflict in Palestine & Lebanon: Practices, Discourses and Memories - Dina Matar & Zahera Harb I PRACTICES 2 Just a Few Small Changes: The Limits of Televisual Palestinian Representation of Conflicts Within the Transnational 'Censorscape' - Matt Sienkiewicz 3 Mediating Internal Conflict in Lebanon and its Ethical Boundaries - Zahera Harb 4 Negotiating Representation, Re-making War: Transnationalism, Counter-hegemony and Contemporary Art from Post-Taif Beirut - Hanan Toukan 5 Narratives in Conflict: Emile Habibi's 'al-Waqa'i al-Ghariba' and Elia Suleiman's 'Divine Intervention' - Refqa Abu-Remaileh II DISCOURSES 6 Islam in the narrative of Fatah & Hamas - Atef Alshaer 7 Al-Manar: Cultural Discourse and Representation of Resistance - Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso 8 The Battle over Victimhood: Roles and Implications of Narratives of Suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Kirkland Newman Smulders 9 The 'I Love - ' Phenomenon in Lebanon: Transmutations of Discourse, its Impact on Civil Society, the Media and Democratization - Carole Helou III MEMORIES 10 Making Sense of War News among Adolescents in Lebanon: The Politics of Solidarity and Partisanship - Helena Nassif 11 Narrating the 'Nakba': Palestininian Filmmakers Revisit 1948 - Nadia Yacoub 12 Bearing Witness to 'Al Nakba' in a Time of Denial - Teodora Todorova Index