Journal articleMedia Culture and Society · January 1, 2026
Drawing on the case of the Israeli genocidal assault on Gaza, with attention to how Israelis and their supporters were employing synthetic images as political tools, this essay responds to current academic debates around visual generative AI in political c ...
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Journal articlePhilosophy of Photography · April 1, 2023
This interview with media anthropologist, Rebecca L. Stein, conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher in Spring 2023, takes her recent book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021) as its starti ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Middle East Studies · November 1, 2021
Over the course of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, within the occupied Palestinian territories, photographic technologies and image-oriented politics would grow increasingly central as activist and human-rights tools of bearing witness t ...
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Journal articleCurrent Anthropology · February 1, 2017
This paper is an ethnographical exploration of the growing importance of photographic technologies within the contemporary political theater of Israel’s military occupation studied from the vantage of Israeli actors and institutions. My ethnography focuses ...
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Journal articleEthnologie Francaise · January 1, 2015
This paper considers the ways that differently situated communities of Israeli Jews have contended with the history of the Palestinian dispossession of 1948.1949 war. The analysis focuses on the ways this history is to formerly Palestinian things and propo ...
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Journal articleGLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · October 1, 2010
This essay examines two works by the Israeli director Eytan Fox—Florentin, a television serial, and The Bubble, a feature film—and the highly divergent ways they negotiate the interplay between queerness, the Israeli state, and the Israeli military ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Middle East Studies · October 31, 2008
It is perhaps self-evident to suggest that military conquest shares something with tourism because both involve encounters with "strange" landscapes and people. Thus it may not surprise that the former sometimes borrows rhetorical strategies from the latte ...
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Journal articleJournal of Palestine Studies · 2004
The marginalization of popular culture in radical scholarship on Palestine and Israel is symptomatic of the conceptual limits that still define much Middle East studies scholarship: namely, the prevailing logic of the nation-state on the one hand and the a ...
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