Producing Palestine

Dina Matar is a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. She is the Chair of the SOAS Centre of Palestine Studies. She is Series Editor of the series Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa, and SOAS Palestine Studies.Helga Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU, USA.

In their entirety, the essays provide a psycho-social-virtual memoir of Palestine of both geographic and emotional proportions. They also give voice to the many thousands whose lives have been either lost to genocide or blighted by relentless occupation.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction 1 A Place Called Return, Rayya El Zein2 Imagining Returns: Countless Palestinian Futures, Danah Abdulla and Sarona Abuaker3 Re-centring Palestine and Palestinians in poster art, Dina Matar4 Becoming Al-Mulatham/a: Fedayee Art, Abu Obaida, and Palestinian TikTok, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali5 Vertical Visions of the Nakba: Towards a Topography of Layers, Viviane Saglier6 Virtual Returns: Rehearsing and Remediating Returns in Palestinian Video Practices, Kareem Estefan 7 Reincarnated: Common Sense and the Poetics of Elsewhere, Aamer Ibraheem8 Fugitive Crossings: On the Condition of Being Palestinian, Nadeem Karkabi and Kiven Strohm9 Marking Bodies: A Catalogue of Keffiyehs, Sary Zananiri10 We’re Still Alive, so Remove Us from Memory: Asynchronicity and the Museum in Resistance, Lara Khaldi 11 Forging Revolutionary Objects, Stephen Sheehi12 Cooking Online with Chef Fadi, Anne Meneley 13 Interactive Documentary, Layers of Historical Cracks, Dale Hudson14 Palestine and the Question of Queer Arabness, Sophie Chamas15 Refractions, Helga Tawil-Souri 16 Terra Ex Machina, Hagit Keysar, Ariel Kane, and Barak BrinkerEpilogueIndex