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MELANI MCALISTER, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945–2000, American Crossroads, no. 6 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). Pp. 373. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2003

SANDRA CARTER
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Melani McAlister, currently assistant professor of American studies at George Washington University, attempts a multi-faceted and multi-layered coherence between U.S. political activities and agendas figuring the Middle East, and U.S. popular-culture appropriations of specific histories, religions, and symbologies of the region over a fifty-five–year span. McAlister sets herself a daunting task to interweave popular culture, politics, history, and criticism:

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Book Review
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 207 - 209
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2003 Cambridge University Press

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