Arrested movement in the Middle East: mobility and political dissent in arab and Palestinian culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, Drew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Border security--Middle East.

Border security.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2025.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production in the Arab world.

Contents:

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Chapter 1

Introduction: Mobility between the Global and Local Historicizing Mobility and its Control Mobility in Arab Cultural Production Form and Genre Shaped by Mobility Part One

Palestinian Immobilities: Home, Nostalgia, and the Blockaded Present Chapter 2

"The Arab Room:" Detention, Disorientation, and Displacement in Palestinian Airport Narratives Concealed Spaces Mobility and suspended time Conclusion: The "airportization" of Palestinian life Chapter 3

Ruins of Mobility: Lost Transport Networks in Palestine Palestinian urban memory From Mobility to Blockage: Recalling Qalandia Airport From Trace to Void: The Missing Trains of Palestine Conclusion: Reimagining the Void Chapter 4

Migration, Infiltration, and Nationhood in When I Saw You and Gate of the Sun Migration and Cinema in Palestine Wa?an and Migration Preserving the nation: When I Saw You Consuming the nation: Gate of the Sun Conclusion: Remembering the wa?an through image and video Part Two

Arab Immobilities: Stagnation, and the Apocalyptic Turn Chapter 5

Transitory Texts: Inaccessible Ruins and the Dead Ends of Circulation Aesthetics of Fragmentation in postwar Lebanese and Iraqi fiction Beyond Standing: The Inaccessible Ruin in Night Post The figure of the ?u?luk The refugee writer as ?u?luk in God 99 Conclusion: Beyond Ruins Chapter 6

Gridlock and Dissent: Transmission and Transit in Cairo and Baghdad Khaled al-Khamissi's Taxi: Movement in a New World Movement as Knowledge Roving Monsters: Frankenstein in Baghdad Wandering Narratives The Book of Collateral Damage and Iraq's endangered literary heritage Conclusion: From bodily circulation to textual circulation Chapter 7

Tunnels of Resistance: Dystopia, Dissent, and the Underground in Cairo Cairo's Expanding Underground Networks Between the Physical and Metaphorical Underground Subterranean Subversions: The Underground in Arab fiction from Lebanon to Egypt Pre-2011: The Underground as a Societal Mirror After the Uprising: Return of the Underground Refuge Conclusion: Failed Utopia of the Underground Chapter 8

Conclusion: Future (Im)Mobilities

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed October 2, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version: Paul, Drew Arrested Movement in the Middle East

ISBN:

9780755656745

9780755656721

9780755656769

0755656725

0755656768

0755656741

OCLC:

1537945874

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