List of Illustrations

Preface

Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Anxieties of Scale

Walter Armbrust

Public Culture in Arab Detroit: Creating Arab/American Identities in a Transnational Domain

Andrew Shryock

The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music from Bazm-e Qajariyyeh to Beverly Hills Garden Parties

Anthony Shay

Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border

Ted Swedenburg

Playing It Both Ways: Local Egyptian Performers between Regional Identity and International Markets

Katherine E. Zirbel

Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah: Moroccan Music and Euro-American Imagination

Philip Schuyler

Nasser 56/Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community

Joel Gordon

Consuming Damascus: Public Culture and the Construction of Social Identity

Christa Salamandra

The Hairbrush and the Dagger: Mediating Modernity in Lahore

Richard McGill Murphy

``Beloved Istanbul'': Realism and the Transnational Imaginary in Turkish Popular Culture

Martin Stokes

Badi'a Masabni, Artiste and Modernist: The Egyptian Print Media's Carnival of National Identity

Roberta L. Dougherty

American Ambassador in Technicolor and Cinemascope: Hollywood and Revolution on the Nile

Robert Vitalis

The Golden Age before the Golden Age: Commercial Egyptian Cinema before the 1960s

Walter Armbrust

References

List of Contributors

Index