Arts and the Uprising in Egypt: The Making of a Culture of Dissent?
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9774167589 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Samia Mehrez is professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations and director of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of The Literary Atlas of Cairo (AUC Press, 2010) and The Literary Life of Cairo (AUC Press, 2011), and editor of Translating Egypt's Revolution: The Language of Tahrir (AUC Press, 2012).Mona Abaza is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Amer
About the AuthorSamia Mehrez is professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations and director of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei (AUC Press, 2011) and The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story (AUC Press, 2013).. She is the author of The Literary Atlas of Cairo (AUC Press, 2010) and The Literary Life of Cairo (AUC Press, 2011), and editor of Translating Egypt's Revolution: The Language of Tahrir (AUC Press, 2012).Mona Abaza is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Ame
It sparked new developments and transformations in content and genre and laid open challenge to the powerful role traditionally played by the country's ministry of culture in the field of artistic expression. The eight chapters in Arts and the Uprising in Egypt offer a timely and much-needed survey of key realms of cultural production in Egypt since January 2011. They show how this explosion of cultural expression was of a piece with the change in people's relationship to power and authority that took place after the uprising and yet how this cultural resurgence had its roots in political struggles that predated 2011. The chapters in this book detail the main areas where cultures of dissent ar