List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword: About Yasir Suleiman, Carole Hillenbrand; Introduction, Yonatan Mendel & Abeer AlNajjar; 1. The Hauntology of Language and Identity, John E. Joseph; 2. Transcultural content and translingual reflection: Rethinking the Arabic language learning experience, Karin Christina Ryding; 3. Metaphorical recurrence and language symbolism in Arabic meta-language discourse, Chaoqun Lian; 4. Colloquial Moroccan Arabic: Shifts in usage and attitudes in the era of computer-mediated communication, Eirlys Davies; 5. ‘Arabic is under threat’: Language anxiety as a discourse on identity and conflict, Ashraf Abdelhay and Sinfree Makoni; 6. Code choice, place and identity in Egypt: Evidence from two novels, Reem Bassiouney; 7. Language as Proxy in Egypt’s Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism, Mariam Aboelezz; 8. Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic, Rana Hisham Issa; 9. Orchestrating Multimodal Protest and Subverting Banal Nationalism in the Linguistic Landscape of the Tunisian Revolution, Sonia Shiri; 10. The Arab Jews and the Arabic language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present, Maisalon Dallashi; 11. War Names in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Comparative Study, Muhammad Amara; About the Contributors.