{"product_id":"the-visual-divide-between-islam-hatem-n-akil-9781137569646","title":"The Visual Divide Between Islam and the West: Image Perception Within Cross-Cultural Contexts","description":"This book aims at addressing the question of how do Muslims view the way they are being viewed, not viewed, or incorrectly viewed by the West? The book inquires about a possible \"will-to-visibility\" that drives and divides the representation of Muslims in Western media from the desire of the Muslim\/Arab to be \"seen\" and to register as a human life. Hatem N. Akil attributes this failure to a \"delirious crisis of the Real\" resulting in a state of desperation that inextricably and symmetrically ties visibility to violence. [This book] critically engages with questions about \"ways of seeing\" within cross-cultural contexts: why and how is an image seen in two opposing ways by people from different cultural backgrounds; and why and how do certain cartoons, photographs, and videos become both the cause and target of bloody political violence -- as witnessed by the deadly attacks against Charlie Hebdo in France and in the swift military response by the US and Jordan to videotaped violence by ISIS. -- Back cover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hatem N. Akil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1137569646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781137569646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/23\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Hatem N. Akil","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46974558503167,"sku":"9781137569646","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7f33b53-b2a2-43f5-b271-d0ed9494f8b4.jpg?v=1750875387","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-visual-divide-between-islam-hatem-n-akil-9781137569646","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}