@article {201302008220110101, title = {Post-Trauma,Sexuality And the Occupation: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema during the second Intifada}, journal = {Theory and Criticism}, volume = {38-39}, year = {2011}, pages = {211 - 234 (Hebrew).}, abstract = {An analysis of films depicting interracial sex between men in Israeli and in Palestinian cinema, which were produced during and after the second Intifada (2000-2008), reveals a complex picture. Both corpora deal with the post-traumatic intersection of race and nationality with gender and sexuality. The paper examines two examples: Eytan Fox{\textquoteright}s Israeli film, The Bubble, and Tawfik Abu Wael{\textquoteright}s short Palestinian film, Diary of a Male Whore. While the Israeli film focuses on interracial sex infiltrated by terror within the urban Western gay scene, the Palestinian film focuses on interracial sex within the post-traumatic memory of expulsion and loss of home.These constructs {\textendash} together with socio-religious differences between the two cultures and their film industries {\textendash} have ramifications on how (homo)sexualities are represented. Homosexual Palestinian and Israeli cinema during and after the second Intifada (as presented in Bubble and Diary) suggests a complex network of interracial sexual relations. This paper, therefore, offers a rethinking of cultural concepts (e.g., gay-ization, the permeable body, masturbation, gay shame-pride-humiliation, gaze and scopic economics), as well as of memory, trauma, and post-traumaMorag, Raya. 2011. {\textquotedblleft}Post-Trauma, Sexuality And the Occupation: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema during the second Intifada" (Hebrew).Theory and Criticism 38-39: 211 - 234.\ \ \ }, keywords = {and Abu W{\={a}}{\textquoteright}il, dramatic arts, expulsion, Eytan (1964- ): Ha-Bu{\textquoteright}ah (2006), film, Fox, gaze, Homi K. (1949- ), Homosexuality, Israel, Kaja (1947- ), Laqueur, relationship to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Silverman, Tawfiq (1976- ): Yawmiy{\={a}}t ahir (2001), The Bubble, theories of Bhabha, Thomas Walter (1945- ), treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder}, issn = {0792-7223}, url = {http://theory-and-criticism.vanleer.org.il/\%D7\%92\%D7\%99\%D7\%9C\%D7\%99\%D7\%95\%D7\%9F-39-38-\%D7\%97\%D7\%95\%D7\%A8\%D7\%A3-2011/}, author = {Raya Morag} }