The term terrorism has been used to obscure the historical roots of political conflict and to serve as a justification for our national "fears" of Arabs and instability in the Middle East. Before one can make any more representations of/from the Middle East, we have to confront those dominant images and stereotypes stipulating which forms of terror are acceptable and which are to be enschewed. We have to arrest the imagery and ideology, decolonizing and recontextualizing it to provide a carved-out space of subjectivity that is absence enforced, consistently denied and marginalized to its furthest extremes in the "media".