Yonatan Mendel is a Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Security and Political Considerations in the Study of Arabic in Jewish-Israeli Schools (2014) and co-author (together with Ronald Ranta) of From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self: Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity (2016). Abeer AlNajjar is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Middle East Center at London School of Economics, and an Associate Professor of Mass Communications at the American University of Sharjah-UAE. She authored numerous articles and book chapters in political communication, journalism and media studies and a book titled Conflict over Jerusalem: Covering the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in the British Press (2009).

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• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsForeword: About Yasir Suleiman, Carole HillenbrandIntroduction, Yonatan Mendel & Abeer AlNajjarChapter 1: The Hauntology of Language and Identity, John E. JosephChapter 2: Transcultural content and translingual reflection: Rethinking the Arabic language learning experience, Karin Christina RydingChapter 3: Metaphorical recurrence and language symbolism in Arabic meta-language discourse, Chaoqun LianChapter 4: Colloquial Moroccan Arabic: Shifts in usage and attitudes in the era of computer-mediated communication, Eirlys DaviesChapter 5: ‘Arabic is under threat’: Language anxiety as a discourse on identity and conflict, Ashraf Abdelhay and Sinfree MakoniChapter 6: Code choice, place and identity in Egypt: Evidence from two novels, Reem BassiouneyChapter 7: Language as Proxy in Egypt’s Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism, Mariam AboelezzChapter 8: Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic, Rana Hisham IssaChapter 9: Orchestrating Multimodal Protest and Subverting Banal Nationalism in the Linguistic Landscape of the Tunisian Revolution, Sonia ShiriChapter 10: The Arab Jews and the Arabic language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present, Maisalon DallashiChapter 11: War Names in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Comparative Study, Muhammad AmaraAbout the Contributors

Yonatan Mendel is a Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Security and Political Considerations in the Study of Arabic in Jewish-Israeli Schools (2014) and co-author (together with Ronald Ranta) of From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self: Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity (2016). Abeer AlNajjar is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Middle East Center at London School of Economics, and an Associate Professor of Mass Communications at the American University of Sharjah-UAE. She authored numerous articles and book chapters in political communication, journalism and media studies and a book titled Conflict over Jerusalem: Covering the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in the British Press (2009).

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• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsForeword: About Yasir Suleiman, Carole HillenbrandIntroduction, Yonatan Mendel & Abeer AlNajjarChapter 1: The Hauntology of Language and Identity, John E. JosephChapter 2: Transcultural content and translingual reflection: Rethinking the Arabic language learning experience, Karin Christina RydingChapter 3: Metaphorical recurrence and language symbolism in Arabic meta-language discourse, Chaoqun LianChapter 4: Colloquial Moroccan Arabic: Shifts in usage and attitudes in the era of computer-mediated communication, Eirlys DaviesChapter 5: ‘Arabic is under threat’: Language anxiety as a discourse on identity and conflict, Ashraf Abdelhay and Sinfree MakoniChapter 6: Code choice, place and identity in Egypt: Evidence from two novels, Reem BassiouneyChapter 7: Language as Proxy in Egypt’s Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism, Mariam AboelezzChapter 8: Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic, Rana Hisham IssaChapter 9: Orchestrating Multimodal Protest and Subverting Banal Nationalism in the Linguistic Landscape of the Tunisian Revolution, Sonia ShiriChapter 10: The Arab Jews and the Arabic language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present, Maisalon DallashiChapter 11: War Names in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Comparative Study, Muhammad AmaraAbout the Contributors