Adham Hamed explores how a metaphoric understanding of the Middle East as an open space full of resonating sound bodies can be applied to the Middle East Conflict. Through inquiring into the experienced truths of large-scale political violence, the author suggests that music carries a potential for speaking ‘unspeakable’ truths. He explores hidden layers by applying the transrational approach to peace studies and proposes a non-territorial understanding of conflict. Hamed argues that security and justice discourses make up the dominant primary themes in this context. The Jerusalem Youth Chorus and the Egyptian band Eskenderella are examined as case studies. This book uncovers where their truths meet within and beyond the restrictions of formalized language. The author concludes that in moments of experienced resonance there is potential for change in the dynamics of rigid conflicts.

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Innsbruck, Austria

Adham Hamed

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Adham Hamed is a Peace Researcher from the MA Program in Peace, Security, Development and International Conflict Transformation as well as a member of the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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Book Title: Speaking the Unspeakable
Book Subtitle: Sounds of the Middle East Conflict
Authors: Adham Hamed
Series Title: Masters of Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14208-7
Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-14207-0Published: 22 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-14208-7Published: 08 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2364-463X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 109
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: General Psychology, Peace Studies, Middle Eastern Politics, Political Theory

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