Pt. 1. Who are they, where'd they come from, and why they don't hate us - yet? From evil to empathy : the Orient beats back the Axis of Arrogance -- Overcoming the matrix, re-imagining Middle Eastern history -- Pt. 2. Branding Islam in the global era. Grounding the globalization Concorde -- New logo : rebranding the Middle East in the global era -- Beyond bin Laden : human nationalisms versus inhuman globalization -- Facing the music : rock and resistance in the Middle East and North Africa -- Pt. 3. We're jammin' : global solidarity in the post-9/11 world. Paris '68-Baghdad '04: the evolution of a movement of movements -- Inspiring the impossible : the global peace and justice movement between old problems and new horizons -- Conclusion: Chaos and culture jamming in the "New Middle East."