Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Images, Diasporas and Difference. Fran Lloyd. 10 2 Internationalism and Art: Re-evaluating the Concepts of Beauty and Individuality. Els van der Plas. 24 3 American-Arab Artists and Multiculturalism in America. Salwa Mikadadi Nashashibi. 32 4 Mobile Identity and the Focal Distance of Memory. Sabiha Khemir. 42 5 Our Bodies, Our Orient and Art. Mai Ghoussoub. 52 6 Palestine Art: Imaging the Motherland. Tina Sherwell. 62 7 Enacting Vision: a Personal Perspectives. Houria Niati. 74 8 Re-Making Ourselves: Art, Memories and Materialities. Fran Lloyd. 81 Artists' Biographies. 157 Artists' Bibliographies. 181 Contemporary Arab Art: General Bibliography. 189 List of Illustrations. 197 Notes on Contributors. 201 Index. 203

About the Author

Fran Lloyd is Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University, London. Trained as an art historian at the University of Manchester, she has published widely on contemporary visual culture. Editor of Deconstructing Madonna, Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present, and co-editor of Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture, she is contributing a forthcoming chapter in Feminist Visual Culture. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and difference in contemporary art in Britain and in Japan