Autorentext

Khaled A. Beydoun is a leading voice on Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim identity, and he is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on Islamophobia globally. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; he also serves as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Western Cape Desmond Tutu Center for Religion and Social Justice (Cape Town, South Africa). He is the author of the acclaimed books American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims, which are considered foundational works in the study of Islamophobia. 

Mohammad Sabaaneh** **is a Palestinian cartoonist. He is the principal political cartoonist for the Palestinian Authority's daily newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida. Sabaaneh is a Middle East representative for the Cartoonists Rights Network International and teaches art at the Arab American University of Palestine. His graphic novel Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, which tells the autobiographical story of his time as a political prisoner in Israel, received the Palestine Book Award. He currently lives in Ramallah, in the West Bank.

Klappentext

A collection of essays on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, written in real time during the annihilation by a leading scholar of Islamophobia, accompanied by over sixty pieces of art by Palestinian political cartoonist, Mohammad Sabaaneh during the same period.--

Inhalt

Introduction | Olives and Time

 Part I | For Ali and Edward

Palestinian Children Have Names, Too

Gaza As Panopticon

On Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

Living on Borrowed Time

Gaza 2.0: The First Digital Genocide

An Ode to Anaam

The Black Soul of Palestine

Don’t Call it a Ceasefire

 Part II | For Reem and Hind

The Next Sinister Stage of Ethnic Cleansing

The Soul of My Soul

What About the Men?

Instagram vs. Palestine

No Christmas in Gaza

Motaz, Our Brother From Gaza

            Aaron Bushnell and the Rage That Burns Within Us All

            Man on Fire

 Part III | For Aaron and Issam  ****

            A Ramadan Starved By Genocide

            Foreign Images, Native Feelings

            Beheaded Babies Behind Rafah Tents

            Machine Dreams, Digital Nightmares

            Finding Justice in Cape Town

            Searching for Edward

            The People’s Champ 

            When Phones Are Bombs

 Conclusion | Old Body, New Mind