Navigating War, Dissent and Empathy in Arab/U.S Relations

Presents unique case studies, examining media and political representations of distant suffering.
Focuses on empathy across cultural lines associated with conflict, misunderstanding or domination
Offers a new perspective on American self-identity altered as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering

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Osman Latiff, Ph.D. (2011), Royal Holloway, University of London, is a researcher in medieval and crusader history. He was recipient of the Isobel Thornley Fellowship (2010) and is the author of 'The Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades' (Brill, 2018). He completed a Post-doctorate study on counter-hegemony and political syncretism in Arab/U.S relations (2013) and has written and continues to write academic papers in the field of history, religion, war and empathy.

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Introduction Considering Adorno, Giroux and the Search for Empathy in War.- The Case of Alyssa Peterson Finding Empathy in The Cage.- Distance as othering US images of conflict inside and outside the homeland.- Landscaping Otherness and challenging frames of nothingness in contemporary Palestine.- The Mahmudiyah Killings and the framing of Abeer.- Syncretic Modes in Imagined Mourning These are Our Deaths.

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