Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
Stanford University Press, 2021
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police…
Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
Adi Kuntsman and R. L. Stein Stanford University Press, 2015
Israel’s occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the world’s most active social media users…
Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism
Duke University Press, 2008
Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted throughout the last decade, Stein analyzes the divergent meanings that Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel have attached to tourist cultures, and she considers their resonance with histories of travel in Israel, its Occupied Territories, and pre-1948 Palestine…
Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture
R. L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg (eds.) Duke University Press, 2005
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. Contributors examine popular music of the Palestinian resistance, ethno-racial “passing” in Israeli cinema, Arab-Jewish rock, Euro-Israeli tourism to the Arab Middle East, and more…
The Struggle For Sovereignty: Palestine And Israel,1993-2005
Joel Beinin and R. L. Stein (eds.) Stanford University Press, 2006
In this volume, prominent scholars and journalists examine the dramatic political changes in Palestine and Israel from the Oslo Accords through the second intifada and the death of Yasser Arafat. Their essays address the political economy of the Oslo process, social and political changes in Palestine and Israel, United States foreign policy, social movements and political activism, and the interplay between cultural and political-economic processes…