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Introduction : the claims of memory / Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad H. Sadi -- Places of memory. The rape of Qula, a destroyed Palestinian village / Susan Slyomovics -- Mapping the past, recreating the homeland : memories of village places in pre-1948 Palestine / Rochelle Davis -- Return to half-ruins: memory, postmemory, and living history in Palestine / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Modes of memory. Iterability, cumulativity and presence : the relational figures of Palestinian memory / Lena Jayyusi -- Women's nakba stories : between being and knowing / Rosemary Sayigh -- The continuity of trauma and struggle : recent cinematic representations of the nakba / Haim Bresheeth -- Faultlines of memory : The secret visitations of memory / Omar Al-Qattan -- Gender of nakba memory / Isabelle Humphries and Laleh Khalili -- Memories of conquest : witnessing death in Tantura / Samera Esmeir -- The politics of witness : remembering and forgetting 1948 in Shatila camp / Diana Keown Allan -- Afterword : reflections on representations, history, and moral accountability / Ahmad Sadi

The Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World (AHDR 2005), published in Arabic with English and French translations, was launched at the end of 2006. With a title carefully crafted to avoid Western development buzzwords like "empowerment" and to signal the inclusion of all women living in the region, it is the third in a series of detailed studies meant to unpack the themes of the original overview report that garnered both acclaim and criticism when it was published in 2002. The other two topical reports examine what were billed as "deficits" in knowledge and in freedom. This one tackles what the original report framed as the third major obstacle to the flourishing of the Arab world: the deficit in gender equality.

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media