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Martyrs and Markets: Exploring the Palestinian Visual Public Sphere

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Visual imagery has increasingly played an important role in mediating popular opinion formation between the “Arab world” and the “West” in recent years, in particular with respect to what is commonly referred to as the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Considering the volume of digital imagery decontextualized, reproduced, and circulated across time and space, it is not a wonder that a two-way street of distorted impressions has emerged. Reinforced through linguistic and cultural divides, such distortions are hardly blind to existent power asymmetries. The visual imagery of Palestinians that selectively filter through the powerful mainstream Western media apparatuses have played an important role in justifying Western and Israeli government policies in Israel/Palestine and the region at large—policies that include protracted occupation, expansionist settler-colonialism, and military repression.1

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Haddad, T. (2016). Martyrs and Markets: Exploring the Palestinian Visual Public Sphere. In: Jayyusi, L., Roald, A.S. (eds) Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137539076_5

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