The Weaponized Camera In The Middle East

Author : Liat Berdugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 1838602720

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"Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine. Using video stills as core material, it discusses the politics of videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine by demonstrating that the conflict is one that has produced an inequality of visual rights. The book highlights visual surveillance and counter surveillance at the citizen level, how Palestinians originally filmed to ?shoot back? at Israelis, who were armed with shooting power via weapons as the occupying force. It also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras, including personal cell phone cameras, thus creating a simultaneous, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice, the Weaponized Camera in The Middle East asks how what is seen, but also who is seeing, affects how conflicts are visually recorded. Drawing on over 5,000 hours of footage, only a fraction of which is easily accessible to the public domain, this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict."--

Author : Liat Berdugo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781838602741

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The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East by Liat Berdugo Pdf

Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine. Using video stills as core material, it discusses the politics of videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine by demonstrating that the conflict is one that has produced an inequality of visual rights. The book highlights visual surveillance and counter surveillance at the citizen level, how Palestinians originally filmed to “shoot back” at Israelis, who were armed with shooting power via weapons as the occupying force. It also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras, including personal cell phone cameras, thus creating a simultaneous, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice, the Weaponized Camera in The Middle East asks how what is seen, but also who is seeing, affects how conflicts are visually recorded. Drawing on over 5,000 hours of footage, only a fraction of which is easily accessible to the public domain, this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Author : Rebecca L. Stein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503628038

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Screen Shots by Rebecca L. Stein Pdf

In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish settlers, and human rights workers. All trained their lens on Israeli state violence, propelled by a shared dream: that advances in digital photography—closer, sharper, faster—would advance their respective political agendas. Most would be let down. Drawing on ethnographic work, Rebecca L. Stein chronicles Palestinian video-activists seeking justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to perfect the military's image, and Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing Palestinians of "playing dead." Writing against techno-optimism, Stein investigates what camera dreams and disillusionment across these political divides reveal about the Israeli and Palestinian colonial present, and the shifting terms of power and struggle in the smartphone age.

Author : Rebecca L. Stein
Publisher : Stanford Studies in Middle Eas
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1503614972

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Screenshots by Rebecca L. Stein Pdf

"In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish settlers, and human rights workers. All trained their lens on Israeli state violence, propelled by a shared dream: that advances in digital photography-closer, sharper, faster-would advance their respective political agendas. Most would be let down. Drawing on ethnographic work, Rebecca L. Stein chronicles Palestinian video-activists seeking justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to perfect the military's image, and Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing Palestinians of "playing dead." Writing against techno-utopianism, Stein investigates what camera dreams and disillusionment across these political divides reveal about the Israeli and Palestinian colonial present, and the shifting terms of power and struggle in the smartphone age"--

Author : Dore Gold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041188355

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Arms Control in the Middle East by Dore Gold Pdf

Author : Tami Amanda Jacoby,Brent Sasley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719062330

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Redefining Security in the Middle East by Tami Amanda Jacoby,Brent Sasley Pdf

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Author : Léopold Lambert
Publisher : dpr-barcelona
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788461537020

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Weaponized Architecture by Léopold Lambert Pdf

Research informs the development of a project which, rather than defusing these characteristics, attempts to integrate them within the scene of a political struggle. The proposed project dramatizes, through its architecture, a Palestinian disobedience to the colonial legislation imposed on its legal territory. In fact, the State of Israel masters the elaboration of territorial and architectural colonial apparatuses that act directly on Palestinian daily lives. In this regard, it is crucial to observe that 63% of the West Bank is under total control of the Israeli Defense Forces in regards to security, movement, planning and construction. Weaponized Architecture is thus manifested as a Palestinian shelter, with an associated agricultural platform, which expresses its illegality through its architectural vocabulary.

Author : Anne F. Bayefsky,Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 0966154827

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Israel and the Media Challenge by Anne F. Bayefsky,Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UOM:39015073542501

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The Middle East, Abstracts and Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kurt Braddock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108474528

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Weaponized Words by Kurt Braddock Pdf

Discover theories of persuasion that show how terrorist messages promote radicalization and how counter-messages fight terrorist propaganda.

Author : Enis Dinç
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755602049

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Atatürk on Screen by Enis Dinç Pdf

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was not widely known when he led the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919. However, the effort and attention that his government devoted to the creation of his public image gradually turned him into a superhuman figure in the eyes of many. Film played a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of this image and helped Atatürk to advance his project of building a new “imagined community” of the Turkish nation. But despite the impact of film and film-making on the political and cultural life of Early Republican Turkey, there is almost no research that has analysed this footage. Atatürk on Screen uncovers various film archives to reveal the significant, albeit paradoxical, role of film during this period. Enis Dinç shows that while film-making was crucial for the creation of Atatürk's public image and the presentation of Turkey's new modern image to the world, it also posed risks as it could be re-used, re-edited and re-framed for the purposes of counter-propaganda. The main analysis in the book is of the film footage itself, including rare contemporary cinematic sources which have never received comprehensive analysis before. The book also makes use of other primary sources such as letters, memoirs, newspapers, reports, newsletters and production files, providing readers with a multi-layered account of the period.

Author : Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838601102

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Modern Art in Egypt by Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani Pdf

Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working under the British occupation. Using Western-style academic art as a starting point, these artists championed cultural progress, re-appropriating Egyptian visual culture from European orientalists to found a neo-Pharaonic School of Realism. Modern Art in Egypt charts the years from Muhammad Ali's educational reforms to the mass influx of foreigners during the nineteenth-century. With a focus on the al-Nahda thought movement, this book provides an overview of the key policy-makers, reformists and feminists who founded the first School of Fine Arts in Egypt, as well as cultural salons, museums and arts collectives. By combining political and aesthetic histories, Fatenn Mostafa breaks the prevailing understanding that has preferred to see non-Western art as derivatives of Western art movements. Modern Art in Egypt re-establishes Egypt's presence within the global Modernist canon.

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : UCSC:32106010139787

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On Photography by Susan Sontag Pdf

Author : Ephraim Kahana,Muhammad Suwaed
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810863026

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Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence by Ephraim Kahana,Muhammad Suwaed Pdf

Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration. With the additional threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons, a large U.S. military presence, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the result is an impressively busy intelligence industry, proportionately larger and more extensive than in most other regions. The Historical Dictionary of Middle East Intelligence addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient history and the Middle Ages through modern times, covering the decline of the Ottoman Empire, intelligence activity in the Middle East during and between the two world wars, and the interplay between colonial and local intelligence and counterintelligence agencies of the period. It also presents the relatively new fundamentalist terrorist organizations that have had a significant impact on international relations and on the structure and deployment of intelligence, counterintelligence, and other security organs in the Middle East today. With a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events and key organizations involved in all aspects of intelligence gathering and analysis, as well as the biographies of key players, this is an important reference on the current situation in the Middle East.

Author : Irene Maffi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786725066

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The Politics and Practices of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East by Irene Maffi Pdf

During the nineteenth century, cultural heritage became a dominant feature of the political ideology of the European states and of their colonies. It became a new form of legitimization for the rising nation-state, cementing its inextricable link with that nation's politics and practices. The set of concepts and practices defining cultural heritage were exported to, and imposed over, the colonized populations in North Africa and the Near East. The legacy of the colonial period has proven very significant in the domain of cultural heritage which has become a crucial cultural arena in many Arab states. As in the majorities of post-colonial states, in the Arab world, the inherited paradigm of cultural heritage has been subject to various forms of adaption and re-elaboration that have made it a lively and complex space of negotiations between various actors. Thus, in The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East, Irene Maffi and Rami Daher draw together expert scholars to unravel these complex processes that are involved in the definition, production and consumption of heritage and its material culture in the Middle East, and the dynamics of the key actors involved. The variety of the cases analysed that cover the region from Morocco to Lebanon, as well as the multiplicity of the actors concerned such as the state (post-colonial or colonial), international organizations, municipal councils, local communities, families and even exceptional personalities, highlights and explores the complex processes where very local and specific dynamics intertwine with transnational economic, political and cultural fluxes. In its examination of the workings of cultural heritage in the Middle East, this book is an important resource for students and scholars of Middle East Studies, Cultural History, History of Art and Architecture, and for stakeholders involved in the field of cultural heritage.