Negotiating Identity and Transnationalism

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About the author

Haneen Ghabra (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor at Kuwait University’s Department of Mass Communication and author of the book, Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance (2018). She recently was the recipient for the Book of the Year Award at the National Communication Association’s (NCA) International and Intercultural Division (November 2019). Her work has been published in Communication Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.

Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor and coordinator of graduate studies in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research engages critical rhetoric, political communication, new media, gender and sexuality studies, transnational feminism and social change in a variety of contexts, including social movements, political discourse and pop culture. More particularly, Dr. Alaoui’s scholarship considers how the often non-normative, un-institutionalized voices of resistance work to change their communities, and how normative or institutionalized discourses reinforce their ability to maintain power.

Shadee Abdi (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor of Communication at San Francisco State University. She is a critical cultural communication scholar whose research interests include intercultural, international, and diasporic communication, sexuality studies, family communication, performance studies, and performances of Iranian diaspora. Broadly, her work explores how conflicting discourses complicate and enhance our intersectional understandings of identity and power relative to race, culture, sexuality, gender, nationality, religion, ability, class, and family. She is specifically interested in narratives of resistance within familial and mediated contexts.

Bernadette Marie Calafell (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor and the inaugural Chair in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. She is author of Latina/o Communication Studies Theorizing Performance and Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture. She was the recipient of the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance, the Córdova-Puchot Award for Scholar of the Year, the Lambda Award, and the Francine Merritt Award from the National Communication Association.

About the book

At the heart of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies is a discipline that has been slowly expanding its borders around the issues of racism, sexism, ability, privilege, and oppression. As Latinx, African American, Asian Pacific American, Disability and LGBTQ Studies widen and shift the scope of Communication Studies, what often gets underplayed is the role of transnational Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Studies. For this reason, the goal of this book is to begin to bring Middle Eastern and North African Communication and Critical Cultural Studies in conversation with Global and Transnational Studies. We ask, how can scholars make a space for transnational MENA Studies within Communication and Cultural Studies? We seek to build on existing scholarship by including essays that theorize from a Communication and Critical Cultural Studies lens. This book aims to bring together work by established and new or emerging scholars.

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Preface

Sahar Khamis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Haneen Ghabra and Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui

SECTION 1: Negotiating Whiteness: Contextual MENA Perspectives in the United States and Beyond

Check-Mate: The MENA/Arab Double-Bind

Marie-Odile N. Hobeika & Thomas K. Nakayama

Fragmented Paradigms of Transculturality: Negotiating Equivocal Agency in Refugee Representations in Refugee Resettlement Organizations

Noor Ghazal Aswad

Rearticulating the “Good Muslim” in Times of Trump: Islamophilia and the Muslim Woman in the Women’s March Poster

Shereen Yousuf

SECTION 2: Negotiating Colonialism in MENA: Rhetorics of Populism and Violence in Identity Discourse

Neo-Colonial Representations of the “Grand Mufti,” Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Reterritorialization of Palestine

Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.

Halal, Is It Meat You’re Looking for? A History of Colonial Policy, Halal Meat and Violence

Asim Qureshi

Representation from the Margins: Brexit, Turkey, and the Idea of “Europe”

Matthew deTar

Smelling Beyond Sectarianism and Orientalism: Trash as Rhetorical Resistance in Lebanon’s 2015 “You Stink” Protests

Hana Masri

SECTION 3: Negotiating Identity: Literacy, Visual, and Comedic Perspectives

The Veiled Identity: Hijabistas, Instagram and Branding in the Online Islamic Fashion Industry

Kelsey Waninger Minnick

Bamboo and Bougainvillea: Literary Perspectives on Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Kuwait

Emanuela Buscemi

Laughing at One Thousand and One Western Tales about the Middle Eastern Others:

Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager