Cultural production and social movements after the Arab Spring : nationalism politics and transnational identity This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The so called Arab Spring challenged conventional wisdom and certainties about the Arab world where its effects continue to be felt as well as in the diaspora. This book provides an original contribution to current social and cultural theory on Arab social movements by giving a fuller historical and critical treatment of contemporary artistic and cultural production from the region and beyond. Thematically structured and covering culture media politics and literary studies the book uses a range of theoretical material that engages readers in three key ways. First it adopts a critical standpoint with respect to the term Arab Spring recognizing the multiple interpretations and varied geographical historical and political realities of the term. Second its focus on carefully selected case studies namely Egypt Tunis Syria and Yemen adds depth to analysis of the cultural literary and artistic dimensions that operate fluidly across the Arab world. Third it presents a methodological case study for the growing community of researchers involved in interdisciplinary education. Together the contributors to the book show how the interplay of politics culture and media across varied locations has and continues to shape emergent Arab social forms and a region on the cusp of historical and cultural change. Part I. Senses of belonging: explorations of transcultural spaces. Chapter I. Transculturation in a changing Arab world: engaging contexts in conversation by Eid Mohamed ; Chapter II. Identity politics and digital space: Adel Abidins Abidin travels: Welcome to Baghdad By Jenna Ann Altomonte ; Chapter III. Transcultural Arab identities in the West: Canadian Arab youth navigating culture identity and belonging by Bessma Momani and Melissa Finn ; Chapter IV. Reshaping social practice in post Arab Spring Egypt: expression of identity and affiliation in new media by Mohamed Hassan Part II. Migration and the challenges of subjectivation. Chapter V.Refugees as a hybridizing force in the Jordanian society by Barkuzar Dubbati ; Chapter VI. Ontological citizenship: a realignment of rights and responsibilities between the individual and the state(s) in 21st century migration and transnationalism by Saeed A. Khan Part III. Transcultural dimensions in contemporary Arab literature and culture. Chapter VII. Changing geography: transcultural Arab identity in the age of the EU by Katie Logan ; Chapter VIII. The fractured music of Arab Jewish friendships: Waguih Ghalis Beer in the snooker club and Ismaël Ferroukhis Free men by Caroline Rooney ; Chapter IX. Hédi Bouraoui: Transcultural sense of belonging by Abderrahman Beggar ; Chapter X. Poetics of the virtual: technology and revolution in the poetry of Sghaier Ouled Ahmed by Hager Ben Driss Part IV. Occupying interstices and the aesthetics of dissent. Chapter XI. Interstitial space of the art of protest by Hamid Dabashi ; Chapter XII. The chaos of a scream: a critical reading of Houthis Sarkha in Yemen by Waleed F. Mahdi.