BOOKS
Off The Wall: Political Posters Of The Lebanese Civil War
Published by I.B.Tauris, London 2009.
Foreword by Fawwaz Traboulsi
204 pages (including 64 colored)
ISBN:978 1 84511 951 5Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East :Rhetoric of the Image
Published by Indiana University Press 2013.
376 pages, 22 color illus., 79 b&w illus.
ISBN:978-0-253-00888-6
Image Politics in the Middle East:The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle
Published by I.B.Tauris, London 2012.
288 pages
ISBN:978 1 84885 282 2Arabic Graffiti
Published by From Here to Fame, Berlin 2011.
200 full color pages
ISBN:978-9953-417-74-5
ISBN:978-9953-417-74-5
Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1999.
251 pages | 9 halftones, 19 line drawings
ISBN:9780226877884ESSAYS
Sois Belle et Vote: A Failed Reconciliation of Beauty and Politics
In April 2009, the Free Patriotic Movement issued the campaign "Sois Belle et Vote", as part of its broader electoral campaign under the title of "Change and Reform".
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Signs of Conflict 2012*
Tariq al Jdide: Alternative Model of Political Propaganda
The 2009 elections in Lebanon created a platform for the creation of countless political campaigns. The conflict between the different political parties shifted from physical confrontations to a visual battle of billboards. The discourse of each political party was made apparent through these political campaigns as each one of them strived to consolidate their ideology. Tayyar El Mustaqbal (Future Movement) is a telling example since it is a relatively new political party and is now striving to define and propagate its ideals.
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Signs of Conflict 2012*
Messages From the Enemy: A Semiotic Analysis
Throughout the course of the 33-day Hezbollah-Israeli war, thousands of aerial leaflets were disseminated in an attempt to influence Lebanese sentiment and hopefully behavior––a classic psychological operation. (PSYOP). The following case-study approach attempts to further investigate the relationship between a communicator, a receiver, and the communicated in a war situation. The objective of deciphering the level of participation of each party aims at understanding the politics of the new scenario.
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Signs of Conflict 2012*
Behind the Billboard: History Revived
The return of the Lebanese Forces (LF) to national politics in 2005 was approached on the basis of reconciliation, representing a notable shift in the party's political discourse. LF's posters from 2005 up until the elections in 2009 relied heavily on the “us versus them” antagonistic relation, and are similar to strategies used by the party during the Lebanese civil war.
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Signs of Conflict 2012*
A Leadership Inheritance: Representing the Father-Son After the Assassination of the Father-Leader
The inheritance of power from one family member to the next is something that has become normalized in Lebanon. This essay compares and contrasts the visual representation of leadership inheritance using two specific historical examples: the Jomblat family the Hariri family.
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Signs of Conflict 2012*
Off The Wall
By Zeina Maasri
Foreword by Fawwaz Traboulsi
204 pages (including 64 colored)
Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
By Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle (editors)
376 pages, 22 color illus., 79 b&w illus.