Narrating conflict in the Middle East : discourse, image and communications practices in Lebanon and Palestine / edited by Dina Matar and Zahera Harb.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The term conflict has often been used broadly and uncritically to talk about diverse situations ranging from street protests to war, though the many factors that give rise to any conflict and its continuation over a period of time vary greatly. The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Narrating Conflict in the Middle East explores another path to addressing long-term conflict. The contributors set out to examine the ways in which such conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon have been and are narrated, imagined and remembered in diverse spaces, including that of the media. They examine discourses and representations of the conflicts as well as practices of memory and performance in narratives of suffering and conflict, all of which suggest an embodied investment in narrating or communicating conflict. In so doing, they engage with local, global, and regional realities in Lebanon and in Palestine and they respond dynamically to these realities."--Publisher's website.

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