Donatella Della Ratta is a writer specialising in media and visual cultures in Syria. She is the author of author of Shooting a Revolution (Pluto, 2018) and co-editor of Arab Media Moguls (IB Tauris, 2015). She has curated international exhibitions on art and cinema in Syria.

List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
Glossary
Introduction
1. Making Media, Making the Nation: Syria's Tanwir in Neoliberal Times
2. The Whisper Strategy
3. The Death of Tanwir in Real-Time Drama
4. The People's 'Raised Hands'
5. Fear and Loathing on the Internet: The Paradoxes of Arab Networked Activism
6. Screen Fighters: Filming and Killing in Contemporary Syria
7. Syria's Image-Makers: Daesh Militants and Non-Violent Activists
8. Notes on a Theory of Violence and the Visual in the Networked Age
Notes
Bibliography
Index