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Navigating War, Dissent and Empathy in Arab/U.S Relations

Seeing Our Others in Darkened Spaces

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  • © 2021

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Authors:
  1. Osman Latiff

    1. Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, UK

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  • Presents unique case studies, examining media and political representations of distant suffering

  • Focuses on empathy across cultural lines associated with conflict, misunderstanding or domination

  • Offers a new perspective on American self-identity altered as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  3. The War in Iraq and the Empathic Spaces of Elsewhere

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. The Mahmudiyah Killings and the Framing of Abeer

      • Osman Latiff
      Pages 81-103

    3. Empathy Behind and Beyond the Cage

      • Osman Latiff
      Pages 105-125

    4. Performance and Pathos: Symbolism of Suffering in the Mourning of Iraqi ‘Mothers’

      • Osman Latiff
      Pages 127-150

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 151-160
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About this book

This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy. Through interdisciplinary methods of history, politics and media studies, the book examines ways in which American self-identity alters as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering and of its existential others. It compares representations of the Iraq wars to earlier precedents and looks at the work of American activists, assessing how narratives and images of human suffering in new media iconography generate empathic attitudes towards others.

This comparative, multimodal study helps to explain shifting self-identities within the U.S, and relationally through the representation of the Arab other presenting an original and historicised contribution to the media-war field of academic and public debate. The book underscores empathy as a vibrant category of analysis that expands how we think about West-Arab relations, revealing how understanding the cultural aspects of this conflictual interrelationship needs to be broadened.  


Authors and Affiliations

  • Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, UK

    Osman Latiff

About the author

Osman Latiff, Ph.D. (2011), Royal Holloway, University of London, is a researcher in medieval and crusader history. He was recipient of the Isobel Thornley Fellowship (2010) and is the author of ‘The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades’ (Brill, 2018). He completed a Post-doctorate study on counter-hegemony and political syncretism in Arab/U.S relations (2013) and has written and continues to write academic papers in the field of history, religion, war and empathy.

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