Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism

Sanaz Fotouhi is a creative writer, filmmaker and holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales in diasporic literatures. Her book The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora (IB Tauris, 2015) is the one the first of its kind that examines the body of diasporic Iranian writing in English. Esmaeil Zeiny is research fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia. He received his PhD in Postcolonial literature in English from the National University of Malaysia. His research interests lie at the intersection of history, political theory, cultural studies and literary studies.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction. Visual Cultures of Islam: The Seen, Unseen and the in BetweenSanaz Fotouhi and Esmaeil ZeinyPart 1: Imaging Histories1 The Arrest of Diponegoro: Visual Orientalism and Its AlternativeSyed Farid Alatas2 Images of the Prophet Muhammad: Brief Thoughts on Some European-Islamic EncountersChristiane GruberPart 2: Unseen Reality3 Nightmarish Visions? Shifting Visual Representations of the ‘Islamic’ Terrorist Throughout the ‘War on Terror’Jared Ahmad4 Oil and Women: Invisibility as Power in Nawal El-Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of OilLayla Hendow5 ‘World Hijab Day’: Positioning the Hijabi in CyberspaceRaihanah M. M.Part 3: Interrogating Visual Representations6 Contemporary Bruneian Cinema in the Context of Sharia LawD. Bruno Starrs7 Visual Discourses of (Un)veiling: Revisiting Women of AllahEsmaeil Zeiny8 Visibility and Veiling: Iranian Art on the Global SceneHoda Afshar9 From Woman to Tehran: The Shifting Representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Book Covers by Iranian Writers in EnglishSanaz Fotouhi