This book explores the body and the production process of popular
culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and
Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current
historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and
cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos,
graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the
volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary,
postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and
contextualize their views within a larger historical and political
moment, analyzing the emergence of a popular expression in the
Middle East and North Africa region in recent years, and drawing
conclusions pertaining to the direction of popular culture within a
geopolitical context. The importance of this book lies in
presenting a fresh perspective on popular culture, combining media
that are not often combined and offering a topical examination of
recent popular production, aiming to counter stereotypical
representations of Islamophobia and otherness by bringing together
the perspectives of scholars from different cultural backgrounds
and disciplines. The collection shows that popular culture can
effect changes and alter perceptions and stereotypes, constituting
an area where people of different ethnicities, genders, and
orientations can find common grounds for expression and connection.
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