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1. Introduction: From Radical Distrust to the Arab Avant-Garde. -- 2. Politics as Theatre in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition. -- 3. Discourses of Authenticity and Poetic Good Faith: Algeria, Israel, and Syria. -- 4. From Hegemonic Interpellations to Revolutionary Signs, e.g. Egypt. -- 5. Chronic Disappointment and Humiliation in the Arab Novel. -- 6. Cults of Pride and the Cultural Expression of Right Wing Populism. -- 7. Karama or Why the Egyptian Revolution Was a Poem. -- 8. Figurations of the Sacred in Martyr Art and Equine Messianism. - Mode of access: World Wide Web

This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a certain Africanist discourse and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism.

This article is in two parts, where the first part offers a reading of the film in terms of an inversion of genre. This de-centring inversion of genre is extended to an inversion of generality and universality, and it is further envisaged that the generic appears encompassed within a generativity that may be said to be cosmic. Whilst this is explored with reference to scenes in the film and to Melville's 'Billy Budd, Sailor', the second half of the article considers the implications of the analysis for a theorization of the cinematic genre. Here, Deleuze's understanding of the cinematic in terms of temporal duration is juxtaposed with an African understanding of time towards a theory of spectatorship in terms of relaxation.

This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of representation on questions of extreme emotional investment, comparing representations of the siege to representations of other traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications with respect to comparative approaches.