Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: About Professor Yasir Suleiman -- Introduction: Words, Language, Message -- 1. The Hauntology of Language and Identity -- 2. Transcultural Content and Translingual Refl ection: Rethinking the Arabic Language Learning Experience -- 3. Metaphorical Recurrence and Language Symbolism in Arabic Metalanguage Discourse -- 4. Colloquial Moroccan Arabic: Shifts in Usage and Attitudes in the Era of Computer-mediated Communication -- 5. 'Arabic is Under Threat': Language Anxiety as a Discourse on Identity and Confl ict -- 6. Code Choice, Place and Identity in Egypt: Evidence from Two Novels -- 7. Language as Proxy in Egypt's Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism -- 8. Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic -- 9. Orchestrating Multimodal Protest and Subverting Banal Nationalism in the Linguistic Landscape of the Tunisian Revolution -- 10. The Arab Jews and the Arabic Language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present -- 11. War Names in the Arab-Israeli Confl ict: A Comparative Study -- About the Contributors -- Index