If You Want to Love treats popular culture as a serious field of knowledge rather than as a light supplement to politics or “high” literature. Fawwaz Traboulsi approaches song, spoken language, ritual, jokes, and everyday feeling in order to read how memory, identity, and desire are built from below in social life. The book avoids both elitist contempt for popular culture and its naive celebration, treating it instead as a space in which collective contradictions, fantasies, and moods become visible.
If You Want to Love: Writings on Popular Culture (Second Edition)
إن كان بدك تعشق: كتابات في الثقافة الشعبية (الطبعة الثانية)