Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968-, Silverstein, Paul A., 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
Subjects:	Violence > Middle East > History. Violence > Africa, North > History. Political violence > Middle East > History. Political violence > Africa, North > History.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein and Ussama Makdisi
Violence and sacrifice
A death revisited: solidarity and dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian community / Glenn Bowman
Martyrdom and destiny: the inscription and imagination of Algerian history / James McDougall
Patriotic sacrifice and the burden of memory in Israeli secular national Hebrew culture / Yael Zerubavel
Resolution and reconciliation
Commemoration under fire: Palestinian responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre / Shira Robinson
The making and unmaking of memories: the case of a multi-confessional village in Lebanon / Anja Peleikis
The Algerian war in French memory: vengeful memory's violence / Benjamin Stora
Archaeology of memory
Can the subaltern remember? a pessimistic view of the victims of Zionism / Gabriel Piterberg
Beirut, a city without history? / Saree Makdisi
Archaeology, nationhood, and settlement / Nadia Abu el-Haj.