Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University.Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

"The power of these studies lies in their revelation that history—that is, 'collective memory'—is not limited to remembered experiences. It is creative, expanding to bind related events into grand narratives defining identities, making credible the wide-spread belief in Western hostility toward Muslims dating back to the crusades. . ."—American Anthropologist

• ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North AfricaPaul A. Silverstein and Ussama MakdisiI. Violence and Sacrifice1. A Death Revisited: Solidarity and Dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian CommunityGlenn Bowman2. Martyrdom and Destiny: The Inscription and Imagination of Algerian HistoryJames McDougall3. Patriotic Sacrifice and the Burden of Memory in Israeli Secular National Hebrew CultureYael ZerubavelII. Resolution and Reconciliation4. Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre Shira Robinson5. The Making and Unmaking of Memories: The Case of a Multi-Confessional Village in LebanonAnja Peleikis6. The Algerian War in French Memory: Vengeful Memory's ViolenceBenjamin StoraIII. Archaeology of Memory7. Can the Subaltern Remember? A Pessimistic View of the Victims of ZionismGabriel Piterberg8. Beirut, a City without History?Saree Makdisi9. Archaeology, Nationhood, and SettlementNadia Abu El-HajContributorsIndex

Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University.Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

"The power of these studies lies in their revelation that history—that is, 'collective memory'—is not limited to remembered experiences. It is creative, expanding to bind related events into grand narratives defining identities, making credible the wide-spread belief in Western hostility toward Muslims dating back to the crusades. . ."—American Anthropologist

• ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North AfricaPaul A. Silverstein and Ussama MakdisiI. Violence and Sacrifice1. A Death Revisited: Solidarity and Dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian CommunityGlenn Bowman2. Martyrdom and Destiny: The Inscription and Imagination of Algerian HistoryJames McDougall3. Patriotic Sacrifice and the Burden of Memory in Israeli Secular National Hebrew CultureYael ZerubavelII. Resolution and Reconciliation4. Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre Shira Robinson5. The Making and Unmaking of Memories: The Case of a Multi-Confessional Village in LebanonAnja Peleikis6. The Algerian War in French Memory: Vengeful Memory's ViolenceBenjamin StoraIII. Archaeology of Memory7. Can the Subaltern Remember? A Pessimistic View of the Victims of ZionismGabriel Piterberg8. Beirut, a City without History?Saree Makdisi9. Archaeology, Nationhood, and SettlementNadia Abu El-HajContributorsIndex

Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University.Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

"The power of these studies lies in their revelation that history—that is, 'collective memory'—is not limited to remembered experiences. It is creative, expanding to bind related events into grand narratives defining identities, making credible the wide-spread belief in Western hostility toward Muslims dating back to the crusades. . ."—American Anthropologist

• ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North AfricaPaul A. Silverstein and Ussama MakdisiI. Violence and Sacrifice1. A Death Revisited: Solidarity and Dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian CommunityGlenn Bowman2. Martyrdom and Destiny: The Inscription and Imagination of Algerian HistoryJames McDougall3. Patriotic Sacrifice and the Burden of Memory in Israeli Secular National Hebrew CultureYael ZerubavelII. Resolution and Reconciliation4. Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre Shira Robinson5. The Making and Unmaking of Memories: The Case of a Multi-Confessional Village in LebanonAnja Peleikis6. The Algerian War in French Memory: Vengeful Memory's ViolenceBenjamin StoraIII. Archaeology of Memory7. Can the Subaltern Remember? A Pessimistic View of the Victims of ZionismGabriel Piterberg8. Beirut, a City without History?Saree Makdisi9. Archaeology, Nationhood, and SettlementNadia Abu El-HajContributorsIndex