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Editors’ Note

Introductory Section

Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/ Austria) and Serhan Oksay (Istanbul/ Turkey): The IMAGES Project

Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/ Austria) and Serhan Oksay (Istanbul/ Turkey): Introduction

Images of the Poor as a Community Issue

Serhan Oksay (Istanbul/ Turkey): Poor of the Faerie Land

Diğdem Sezen (Istanbul/ Turkey): Playing with Problems. How Game Play Can Make us Understand Community Problems and Help us to Solve them

Tonguç İbrahim Sezen (Istanbul/ Turkey): The Representations of Poverty in Digital Games

Savo Fouad Karam (Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Ameen Fares Rihani’s Perception of the Rich and the Poor

The Relativity of Poverty

Naji Oueijan (Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Categorization of Rich and Poor

Bann Haweel(Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Rich and Poor: Borderlines or Meeting Points?

Rita Bou Khalil(Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): The Conquered and the Conqueror

Images of the Poor in the Arts

Sabiha Göloğlu (Istanbul/ Turkey) and William James Harper (Istanbul/ Turkey): Images of the Poor in the Surname-i Hümayun (Imperial Festival Book) of 1582

The Impact of the Media on Images of the Poor

Elisabeth Kapferer (Salzburg/ Austria): Imaging Processes – Pictures of the Poor in Our Minds

Z. Nilüfer Nahya (Istanbul/ Turkey): The Images of Poverty and the Poor in Somalia in the Context of the Aid Campaign in Turkey

JakubKościółek (Cracow/ Poland): Africa – the Land of Poverty. The Media’s Distorted View on the Continent

Images of the Poor in Feature Films

Cangül Örnek (Istanbul/ Turkey): The Thin Social Vein in the New Turkish Cinema: The Urban Poor in Tayfun Pirselimoğlu Films

Elżbieta Wiącek(Cracow/ Poland): Poverty – Spécialité de la Maison of Polish Cinema? Strategies and Ideology in the Representation of the Economic Crises in the Films of Polish Directors after the Democratic Transition (1989) until Present

Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck/ Austria):Images of the Poor in Slumdog Millionaire – Stabilizing the Status Quo by Attributing an Aesthetic Quality to Images of the Poor?

Images of the Poor in Literature

Gönül Bakay (Istanbul/ Turkey): Poverty and Crime: The Case of Moll Flanders

Hatice Övgü Tüzün (Istanbul/ Turkey): The Rich and the Poor: Class Dynamics in Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone

Franziska Jekel (Berlin/ Germany) and Nina Peter (Berlin/ Germany and Bern/ Switzerland): ‘Seeing (the) Eyes of the Other’. Images of the Poor in Charles Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris and Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes

Sinan Dinçer (Leiden/ The Netherlands): ‘Not Made to Rule, but to Subserve’ – Western Perception of the Ottoman Urban Laborers

Vanessa Mouawad (Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Juhan and Freedom as Wealth

Rear Matter

Editors’ Bios

Contributors’ Bios