Mark LeVine is a Guggenheim-winning musician who has recorded and toured with acclaimed performers, including Mick Jagger, Chuck D, Dr. John, Ozomatli, Hassan Hakmoun, Seun and Femi Kuti, and other leading Middle Eastern and African artists. His recording on Ozomatli's album Street Signs won a Grammy in 2005. He is also Professor of Middle Eastern and African Histories at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Twilight of Empire, coedited with Viggo Mortensen. He is also author of Overthrowing Geography and coeditor of One Land, Two States.

"Seen from one angle, Mark LeVine is a respected professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, not far from Los Angeles. . . . But LeVine is also a rock guitarist gifted enough to perform in the shadow of Mick Jagger or Doctor John. . . . In fact, LeVine combines his academic methods and his passion for music in his solid investigations of the alternative scene in the Middle East . . .  His last book, We'll Play Till We Die, deals with material gathered during, as the book's subtitle puts it, his Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World."

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAuthor’s Note: Revolutionary Auras and PhantasmsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration IntroductionFrom Uprisings to Plagues1 • MoroccoFinding Harmonies in a Land of Dissidence2 • Yalla, “Let’s Play!” Egypt from the Pharaoh to the General3 • Palestine/IsraelUprisings in Music4 • Lebanon Remixed but Never Remastered5 • Iran Living in the Upside Down and Inside Out6 • PakistanShredding the Funk from the Valleys to the SeaBy Way of an Epilogue The Joys of ResistanceReferences by ChapterList of Contributors Index

Mark LeVine is a Guggenheim-winning musician who has recorded and toured with acclaimed performers, including Mick Jagger, Chuck D, Dr. John, Ozomatli, Hassan Hakmoun, Seun and Femi Kuti, and other leading Middle Eastern and African artists. His recording on Ozomatli's album Street Signs won a Grammy in 2005. He is also Professor of Middle Eastern and African Histories at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Twilight of Empire, coedited with Viggo Mortensen. He is also author of Overthrowing Geography and coeditor of One Land, Two States.

"Seen from one angle, Mark LeVine is a respected professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, not far from Los Angeles. . . . But LeVine is also a rock guitarist gifted enough to perform in the shadow of Mick Jagger or Doctor John. . . . In fact, LeVine combines his academic methods and his passion for music in his solid investigations of the alternative scene in the Middle East . . .  His last book, We'll Play Till We Die, deals with material gathered during, as the book's subtitle puts it, his Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World."

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAuthor’s Note: Revolutionary Auras and PhantasmsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration IntroductionFrom Uprisings to Plagues1 • MoroccoFinding Harmonies in a Land of Dissidence2 • Yalla, “Let’s Play!” Egypt from the Pharaoh to the General3 • Palestine/IsraelUprisings in Music4 • Lebanon Remixed but Never Remastered5 • Iran Living in the Upside Down and Inside Out6 • PakistanShredding the Funk from the Valleys to the SeaBy Way of an Epilogue The Joys of ResistanceReferences by ChapterList of Contributors Index

Mark LeVine is a Guggenheim-winning musician who has recorded and toured with acclaimed performers, including Mick Jagger, Chuck D, Dr. John, Ozomatli, Hassan Hakmoun, Seun and Femi Kuti, and other leading Middle Eastern and African artists. His recording on Ozomatli's album Street Signs won a Grammy in 2005. He is also Professor of Middle Eastern and African Histories at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Twilight of Empire, coedited with Viggo Mortensen. He is also author of Overthrowing Geography and coeditor of One Land, Two States.

"Seen from one angle, Mark LeVine is a respected professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, not far from Los Angeles. . . . But LeVine is also a rock guitarist gifted enough to perform in the shadow of Mick Jagger or Doctor John. . . . In fact, LeVine combines his academic methods and his passion for music in his solid investigations of the alternative scene in the Middle East . . .  His last book, We'll Play Till We Die, deals with material gathered during, as the book's subtitle puts it, his Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World."

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAuthor’s Note: Revolutionary Auras and PhantasmsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration IntroductionFrom Uprisings to Plagues1 • MoroccoFinding Harmonies in a Land of Dissidence2 • Yalla, “Let’s Play!” Egypt from the Pharaoh to the General3 • Palestine/IsraelUprisings in Music4 • Lebanon Remixed but Never Remastered5 • Iran Living in the Upside Down and Inside Out6 • PakistanShredding the Funk from the Valleys to the SeaBy Way of an Epilogue The Joys of ResistanceReferences by ChapterList of Contributors Index