Dr. Christa Salamandra

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Book A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.  Book Chapters “Consumption, Display, and Gender.”  In Samir Khalaf and Roseanne Khalaf, eds., Arab Culture and Society. London: Saqi Books, 2010.  Reprinted from Christa Salamandra, A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria, pp. 48-64.     Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.


"Through the Back Door: Syrian Television Makers between Secularism and Islamization.”  In Kai Hafez ed., Arab Media: Power and Weakness.  New York: Continuum, 2008.


“La television à l’heure du feuilleton.” In Baudoiun Dupret, Zouhair Ghazzal, Youssef Courbage and Mohammed al-Dbyat, eds., La Syrie au present: Reflets d’une société.  Paris: Actes Sud, 2007.

 

“Chastity Capital: Hierarchy and Distinction in Damascus.” In Samir Khalaf and John Gagnon, eds., Sexuality in the Arab World.  London: Saqi Books, 2006.

 

“Cultural Construction, the Gulf, and Arab London.”  In Paul Dresch and James Piscatori, eds., Monarchies and Nations: Globalisation and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf.  London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.

 

"Consuming Damascus: Public Culture and the Construction of Social Identity."  In Walter Armbrust, ed., Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.


Peer Review Articles
“Creative Compromise: Syrian Television Makers between Secularism and Islamism,” Contemporary Islam, Vol. 2(3), 2008.

 
“Television and the Ethnographic Endeavor: The Case of Syrian Drama,” Transnational Broadcasting Studies, Vol. 14 (Spring/Summer 2005).http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=36

 

“London’s Arab Media and the Construction of Arabness,” Transnational Broadcasting Studies, Vol. 10, Spring 2003. 

 

"Globalisation and Cultural Mediation: The Construction of Arabia in London,” Global Networks, Vol. 2(4), 2002.

 

"Moustache Hairs Lost: Ramadan Television Serials and the Construction of Identity in Damascus, Syria," Visual Anthropology, Vol. 10(2-4) 1998.  Reprinted in Toby Miller, ed., Television, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 2.  London: Routledge, 2003.

 

Non-Peer Reviewed Articles “Al-Intizar,” catalogue entry, Fribourg International Film Festival, 2010.

 

Poetry translation, “Hole in the Head” and “The Last Time,” by Rima Buaini.  Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, Vol. 31, Spring 2008.

 

“Damascus: New Dynamics in and about an Old City,” Anthropology News, January, 2007.

 

Guest Editor, ArteNews Quarterly Feature: “Ambivalent Nostalgias.”  October 2007.

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“Nostalgia Commodified: Old Damascus,” ArteNews Quarterly Feature, October 2007.

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Translation from the Arabic, with Suhail Shadoud, “Canons of the Past,” by Najib Nusair, October 2007. http://www.arteeast.dreamhosters.com/pages/artenews/nostalgias/

 

Encyclopedia Entries Al-Intizār” (“Waiting”), Encyclopedia of Syrian Television Drama (in Arabic).  In press.

 

 “Cities: Urban Movement: Arab States (excepting North Africa).”  In Suad Joseph, ed. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol.6.  Leiden: Brill, 2007.

 

“Space: Female Space.”  In Suad Joseph, ed. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol.4.  Leiden: Brill, 2007.

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