Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil

457 Pages·2005·2.75 MB·English

by  Mark LeVine

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Why They Don’t Hate Us
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Why They Don’t Hate Us
Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil
Mark LeVine
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WHYTHEYDON’THATEUS
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Cover photographs © Corbis/Cadmium
Photograph on p.275 courtesy ofAndrew Stern
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For Lola,Alessandro and Francesca
With love and hope
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Contents
List ofIllustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction:They Are Us 1
Part 1 Who Are They, Where’d They Come From, and Why 15
They Don’t Hate Us – Yet?
1 From Evil to Empathy:The Orient Beats Back the Axis 17
ofArrogance
2 Overcoming the Matrix,Re-Imagining Middle Eastern 45
History
Part 2 Branding Islam in the Global Era 81
3 Grounding the Globalization Concorde 83
4 New Logo:Rebranding the Middle East in the Global Era 127
5 Beyond bin Laden:Human Nationalisms versus 159
Inhuman Globalization
6 Facing the Music:Rock and Resistance in the Middle East 193
and North Africa
Part 3 We’re Jammin’: Global Solidarity in the Post-9/11 211
World
7 Paris ’68–Baghdad ’04:The Evolution ofa Movement 213
ofMovements
8 Inspiring the Impossible:The Global Peace and Justice 241
Movement Between Old Problems and New Horizons
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9 Conclusion:Chaos and Culture Jamming in the 273
“New Middle East”
Notes 341
Bibliography 421
Index 431
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List of Illustrations
Figure 1 Just doing it:Musicians jamming in the Jma al-Fnaa
in Marrakesh (2002) and a student-painted wall at
the al-Nahrain (formerly Saddam) University
cafeteria inBaghdad (2004) reveal how American
brand icons are translated into the identities and
life-goals ofMuslims xviii
Figure 2 The poor in Morocco consume the images,ifnot
the products,ofglobalization,July 2002 16
Figure 3 Marching to anti-US and anti-Jewish chants,
Baghdad,March 19,2004 20
Figure 4 Art – and God – are against the USOccupation at
a Baghdad Gallery,March 2004.In a joining of
ancient Mesopotamian art with modern Muslim
politics,the Arabic writing etched on this sculpture
reads:“God is greater … He [will] defeat the
occupation” 82
Figure 5 It starts young:a birthday present for my 3-year-
old son from his cousin,an Air Force sergeant 128
Figure 6 Ifthese walls could talk:anti-Jewish graffiti – in
Hebrew,reading “Yafo for Muslims only”– in the
once Palestinian,today mixed,neighbourhood of
Jaffa,Israel,2000 162
Figure 7 Globalization’s seductive allure:Prague kiosk
advertisement near site ofS26 anti-IMF
demonstration,September 2000 212