Andrea Khalil is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, City University of New York. She has taught at the American University in Cairo (1999-2000), served as the Director of the Centre for Maghreb Studies in Tunis (2001-2002) and was Fulbright Scholar Tunisia (2012-2013). She is the author of The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature (2003) and the editor of North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora (2008).

• Introduction: Looking at Crowds 1 Theorizing the Crowd 2 Tunisia: the Roots of Social Collectivity 3 Algeria: The Country of a Million Martyrs 4 Libya: The Paradox of the Political Crowd and the "State of the Masses"

Andrea Khalil is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, City University of New York. She has taught at the American University in Cairo (1999-2000), served as the Director of the Centre for Maghreb Studies in Tunis (2001-2002) and was Fulbright Scholar Tunisia (2012-2013). She is the author of The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature (2003) and the editor of North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora (2008).

• Introduction: Looking at Crowds 1 Theorizing the Crowd 2 Tunisia: the Roots of Social Collectivity 3 Algeria: The Country of a Million Martyrs 4 Libya: The Paradox of the Political Crowd and the "State of the Masses"

Andrea Khalil is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, City University of New York. She has taught at the American University in Cairo (1999-2000), served as the Director of the Centre for Maghreb Studies in Tunis (2001-2002) and was Fulbright Scholar Tunisia (2012-2013). She is the author of The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature (2003) and the editor of North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora (2008).

• Introduction: Looking at Crowds 1 Theorizing the Crowd 2 Tunisia: the Roots of Social Collectivity 3 Algeria: The Country of a Million Martyrs 4 Libya: The Paradox of the Political Crowd and the "State of the Masses"