Lina Khatib is the head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She is the author of Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (2006) and of Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (2008), both from I.B.Tauris.

Acknowledgments
List of Images
Introduction: The Visual in Political Struggle
Part I: Revolutionary Illusions
Chapter 1 - The Visual Legacy of the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon
Chapter 2 - Hizbullah: Image Management and Political Survival
Chapter 3 - The Politics of (In)visibility in Iran
Part II: Revolutionary Images
Chapter 4 - Imaging the Arab Spring
Chapter 5 - Television Images and Political Struggle
Chapter 6 - Re-imaging the Arab Dictator
Notes
Index