
The Naked Blogger of Cairo
Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
Marwan M. Kraidy(Author)
Harvard University Press
Published on 14. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-674-98005-1 (ISBN)
Description
A Times Higher Education Book of the Year
Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings.
"A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings...Kraidy's sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new Arab generation's irrepressible creative urges will amply reward the effort. Reading Kraidy's accounts of the politically charted cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and offers hope for the future."
-Marc Lynch, Washington Post
"The Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution."
-Hans Rollman, PopMatters
Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings.
"A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings...Kraidy's sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new Arab generation's irrepressible creative urges will amply reward the effort. Reading Kraidy's accounts of the politically charted cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and offers hope for the future."
-Marc Lynch, Washington Post
"The Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution."
-Hans Rollman, PopMatters
Reviews / Votes
Marwan Kraidy's The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World is a deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings...Kraidy's sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new Arab generation's irrepressible creative urges will amply reward the effort. Reading Kraidy's accounts of the politically charted cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and offers hope for the future. -- Marc Lynch * Washington Post * The Naked Blogger of Cairo is an astonishingly accessible work for one that is also deeply intellectual and scholarly...Kraidy combines intellectual erudition with style and wit...The Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution. -- Hans Rollman * PopMatters * The Naked Blogger of Cairo is yet another testament to the range and ingenuity of Marwan Kraidy's scholarship. He is without a doubt our most insightful critic of Arab media, and this book is essential reading for our times. -- Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara In The Naked Blogger of Cairo, Marwan Kraidy offers a fascinating account of the workings of power and resistance in a digitally connected Middle East that will shake confidence in conventional narratives about the cultural dynamics of the Arab uprisings. It is an original contribution and essential reading for those who want to move beyond cliched frames and facile analyses. -- Mohamed Zayani, Georgetown UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
10 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-98005-1 (9780674980051)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Marwan M. Kraidy is Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania.