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

• Published in: Image Operations p. 137
• Main Author: Straub, Verena
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester University Press 02.12.2016
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Female suicide bombers; Image act; Living martyr; Media Studies; Video testimonies

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...