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AFTER THE AMERICAN CENTURY BRIAN T. EDWARDS AFTER THE AMERICAN CENTURY The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East Columbia University Press / N ew York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2016 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Edwards, Brian T., 1968– After the American century : the ends of U.S. culture in the Middle East / Brian T. Edwards. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-17400-8 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-231-54055-1 (e-book) 1. United States—Relations—Middle East. 2. Middle East—Relations— United States. 3. Popular culture—United States. 4. Popular culture— Middle East. 5. Orientalism—United States. 6. Ethnic attitudes—Middle East. 7. Culture diff usion—Middle East. 8. Globalization—Social aspects— Middle East. 9. Middle East—Civilization—21st century. I. Title. DS63.2.U5E38 2016 303.48'256073—dc23 2015020790 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Th is book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 cover image : Mural in Isfahan, Iran, advertising a local fruit- and- vegetable market. (Photograph by Brian Edwards) cover design: Archie Ferguson References to Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. For Kate Baldwin and for our children Oliver, Pia, Th eo, and Charlotte q Neither . . . had asked her why, but she thinks now that if they had she might have told them she was weeping for her century, though whether the one past or the one present she doesn’t know. William Gibson, P attern Recognition CONTENTS Preface xi 1. AFTER THE AMERICAN CENTURY Ends of Circulation 1 2. JUMPING PUBLICS Egyptian Fictions of the Digital Age 34 3. “ARGO FUCK YOURSELF” Iranian Cinema and the Curious Logics of Circulation 84 4. COMING OUT IN CASABLANCA Shrek , Sex, and the Teen Pic in Contemporary Morocco 139
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