The making and gendering of a martyr images of female suicide bombers in the Middle East

These are the first words a female Lebanese suicide bomber says in her video message, which was broadcast on Lebanese television on 9 April 1985.¹ On the morning of the same day, Sana Yusif Muhaydli crashed a car filled with explosives into an Israeli military convoy, killing herself and two Israeli...

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Published inImage Operations p. 137
Main Author Straub, Verena
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Manchester University Press 02.12.2016
Edition1
Subjects
Female suicide bombers
Image act
Living martyr
Media Studies
Video testimonies
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Summary:These are the first words a female Lebanese suicide bomber says in her video message, which was broadcast on Lebanese television on 9 April 1985.¹ On the morning of the same day, Sana Yusif Muhaydli crashed a car filled with explosives into an Israeli military convoy, killing herself and two Israeli officers. This video is the earliest known testimony left behind by a suicide bomber. On the evening of the attack, it confronted television audiences with an uncanny situation: a self-appointed ‘martyr’, one of the ‘living dead’ addressed them directly just a few hours after her suicide attack. Like a
ISBN:9781526107213
152610721X
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781526107213.003.0011