Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural
memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a …

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about
those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities–the flow of …

This book investigates the psychological toll of conflict in the Middle East during the
twentieth century, including discussion of how spiritual and religious frameworks influence …

This book takes the case of the civil war disappeared in Lebanon to draw on fiction's
potential to inform peacebuilding processes by allowing the exploration of invisible histories …

Many Lebanese films and documentaries of the last few decades have focused on the
hidden legacies of the civil war (1975–1991) that remain unprocessed in public, and often …

This dissertation examines contemporary Lebanese cultural production and its shifting
relationship to the everyday/ordinary as a site that unfolds in the midst of or in proximity to …

i Dwelling in the Barzakh: Mad Archives of the Lebanese Civil War by Renée Michelle
Ragin Program in Literature Duke University Page 1 i Dwelling in the Barzakh: Mad …

To what extent has postcolonial studies been influenced by developments in memory
studies that privilege trauma theory and its accompanying vocabulary of violence, the wound …

This chapter develops the concept of the “suspended now” as a shared experience of
contemporary Beirut. The suspended now seems like an eternally stretched out present …

Afro-Arab Beats Page 151 Afro-Arab Beats Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems Born in a
refugee camp in Amman (Jordan) in 1973 to Palestinian refugees, Hammad grew up in Beirut …