The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674980050 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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 a
Marwan M. . Kraidy is Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania
A Times Higher Education Book of the YearUprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. “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. 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. 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