Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction: Writing Trauma, Memory, and Materiality Nadje Al-Ali Deborah Al-Najjar xxv
1 What Every Driver Must Know Alise Alousi 1
2 Bifurcations of Iraq's Visual Culture Nada Shabout 5
3 A Barbarian in Rome: Excerpts from a Diary Sinan Antoon 24
4 Putting Contemporary Iraqi Art on the Map: A Conversation with Maysaloun Faraj Nadje Al-Ali 35
5 The Assassination of Iraqi Academic Life: A Personal Testimony Saad N. Jawad 48
6 My Own Private Munich Dahlia Petrus 60
7 Hassan Abdulrazzak: A Selection Hassan Abdulrazzak 79
8 Retraining Sunni and Shi'i Discussions Yara Badday 83
9 Invisible Mirror: Aggression and the Thumb-Generation Response Wafaa Bilal 93
10 Iraq: A Long Phantasmagorical Dream for Those Who Are Not Part of the New Capitalism or Retired Communism Ali Bader 103
11 Migratory Sacred Spaces: (Re)creating 'Ashura Dena Al-Adeeb 127
12 (Dis)connectioned Celia Shallal 144
13 Sophisticated Ways: Destruction of an Ancient City Nadje Al-Ali 151
14 My Trips to the Unknown Maki Al Nazzal 161
15 A Tale of Two Exiles Sama Alshaibi 171
16 1001 Nights Jananne Al-Ani 182
17 Arab-Jews, Diasporas, and Multicultural Feminism: A Conversation with Ella Habiba Shohat Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany 185
18 A Film-Training Project for Young Iraqis Maysoon Pachachi 205
19 Lyrical Resistance: The Example of Saadi Youssef Ferial J. Ghazoul 216
20 Larsa Dunya Mikhail 231
21 Ur's Echo: Cosmopolitans and Radical Loss Rashad Salim 235
22 Identity of the Numbers Irada Al-Jabbouri 250
Bibliography 257