March 7, 2005

Lecture: "The Ethnography of Martyrdom"
Annenberg Auditorium, 5:00 pm
Communication professor Stephen O'Leary, the Center for Religion and Civic Culture and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy present a public lecture by Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg, authors of The Road to Martyrs' Square (Oxford, 2005). Their presentation explores the media of the Palestinian intifada and shows how such media were used as part of the process to motivate and recruit activists to become suicide bombers. Drawing upon their extensive collection, they will focus on videotapes featuring the last-will-and-testaments of suicide bombers produced by the 'Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Battalions, the armed wing of Hamas.


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