List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi

Introduction: They Are Us 1

PART 1 WHO ARE THEY, WHERE'D THEY COME FROM, AND WHY THEY DON'T HATE US ? YET? 15

1 From Evil to Empathy: The Orient Beats Back the Axis of Arrogance
2 Overcoming the Matrix, Re-Imagining Middle Eastern History

PART 2 BRANDING ISLAM IN THE GLOBAL ERA 81

3 Grounding the Globalization Concorde 83
4 New Logo: Rebranding the Middle East in the Global Era
5 Beyond Bin Ladin: Human Nationalisms versus Inhuman Globalization
6 Facing the Music: Rock and Resistance in the Middle East

PART 3 WE'RE JAMMIN': GLOBAL SOLIDARITY IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD 211

7 Paris '68?Baghdad '04: The Evolution of a Movement of Movements
8 Inspiring the Impossible: The Global Peace and Justice Movement Between Old Problems and New Horizons 241
9 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture Jamming in the "New Middle East" 273

Notes 341
Bibliography 421
Index 431