{"product_id":"navigating-war-dissent-and-empathy-osman-latiff-9783030767464","title":"Navigating War, Dissent and Empathy in Arab\/U.S Relations: Seeing Our Others in Darkened Spaces","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy. Through interdisciplinary methods of history, politics and media studies, the book examines ways in which American self-identity alters as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering and of its existential \u003ci\u003eothers\u003c\/i\u003e. It compares representations of the Iraq wars to earlier precedents and looks at the work of American activists, assessing how narratives and images of human suffering in new media iconography generate empathic attitudes towards \u003ci\u003eothers. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This comparative, multimodal study helps to explain shifting self-identities within the U.S, and relationally through the representation of the Arab \u003ci\u003eother \u003c\/i\u003epresenting an original and historicised contribution to the media-war field of academic and public debate. The book underscores empathy as a vibrant category of analysis that expands how we think about West-Arab relations, revealing how understanding the cultural aspects of this conflictual interrelationship needs to be broadened. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Osman Latiff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030767469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030767464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Osman Latiff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44410865942783,"sku":"9783030767464","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c2ad496-01ec-4cfe-b809-5c8e8e815b5b.jpg?v=1697538056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navigating-war-dissent-and-empathy-osman-latiff-9783030767464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}