Table of Contents

PART I: Who are They, Where'd They Come From, and Why Don't They Hate Us-Yet?; Introduction: They Are Us; Chapter One: From Evil to Empathy: The Orient Beats Back the Axis of Arrogance; Chapter Two: Overcoming the Matrix, Re-Imagining Middle Eastern History; PART TWO: Branding Islam in the Global Era; Chapter Three: Grounding the Globalization Concorde; Chapter Four: New Logo: Rebranding the Middle East in the Global Era; Chapter Five: Beyond bin Laden: Human Nationalisms versus Inhuman Globalization; Chapter Six: Facing the Music: Rock and Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa; PART THREE: We're Jammin': Global Solidarity in the Post-9/11 World; Chapter Seven: Paris '68 - Baghdad '04: The Evolution of a Movement of Movements; Chapter Eight: Inspiring the Impossible: The Global Peace and Justice Movement Between Old Problems and New Horizons; Conclusion: Chaos and Culture Jamming in Iraq and the World

About the Author

Mark LeVine is Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of California, Irvine. As an activist, he has worked with several groups within the global peace and justice movement and spoken at some of its seminal gatherings, including the Prague S26 Countersummit against the IMF in 2000. As a journalist he has written widely in the US and European press, including Le Monde, the Christian Science Monitor, Middle East Report, and Asia Times.

Reviews

"Perceptive, cosmopolitan, and dazzlingly well-informed." - Thomas Frank; "A bold and iconoclastic work based on extensive personal experience, research, and cultural practice ... essential for understanding what is happening in the Middle East today." - Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University; "Mark LeVine is a wandering minstrel who also happens to be a brilliant Middle Eastern scholar. He hangs out with all the wrong people and brings back profound insights that challenge the idiot stereotypes and ethnic calumnies that pass for American foreign policy." - Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Dead Cities; "A clarion call for building genuinely alternative cross-cultural bridges in the age of the 'war on terror.'" - Chris Toensing, Editor, Middle East Report; "Juxtaposing history, economics and popular culture, LeVine shows us a Middle East full of possibilities far more varied, and hopeful, than one would ever suspect existed." - Ken Pomeranz, author of the award-winning The Great Divergence; "Everybody talks about 'globalization' and 'terrorism' but few do it with such analytical clarity and moral outrage. An awesome book." - Rodolfo D. Torres, author of Savage State: Welfare, Capitalism, and Inequality.