Mehrez, Samia.
Egypt's culture wars politics and practice / [[Book] :] Samia Mehrez. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-324) and index.
Prologue: take them out of the ball game - Egypt's cultural players in crisis -- Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field -- Children of our alley: the AUC Naguib Mahfouz award and the Egyptian literary field -- The big one: the intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literary field -- The value of freedom: the writer against the establishment -- Lost in globalization: education and the stranded Egyptian elite -- Translating gender between the local and the global -- Where have all the families gone? Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s -- From the hara to the imara: emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo -- Taking the soap out of the opera: the case of Hagg Mitwalli's family -- The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere -- Found in Cairo: the limits of representation in the visual field -- Literature and literalism: the Al-khubz al-hafi crisis reconsidered.
All age.
9780415666879
Politics and culture--Egypt.
Culture conflict--Egypt.
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--Egypt
Politics and literature--Egypt.
Arts--Political aspects--Egypt.
Arts, Egyptian--20th century.
Egypt--Intellectual life--20th century.
Egypt--Intellectual life--21st century.
306.0962
306.0962 / M E
Egypt's culture wars politics and practice / [[Book] :] Samia Mehrez. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-324) and index.
Prologue: take them out of the ball game - Egypt's cultural players in crisis -- Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field -- Children of our alley: the AUC Naguib Mahfouz award and the Egyptian literary field -- The big one: the intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literary field -- The value of freedom: the writer against the establishment -- Lost in globalization: education and the stranded Egyptian elite -- Translating gender between the local and the global -- Where have all the families gone? Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s -- From the hara to the imara: emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo -- Taking the soap out of the opera: the case of Hagg Mitwalli's family -- The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere -- Found in Cairo: the limits of representation in the visual field -- Literature and literalism: the Al-khubz al-hafi crisis reconsidered.
All age.
9780415666879
Politics and culture--Egypt.
Culture conflict--Egypt.
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--Egypt
Politics and literature--Egypt.
Arts--Political aspects--Egypt.
Arts, Egyptian--20th century.
Egypt--Intellectual life--20th century.
Egypt--Intellectual life--21st century.
306.0962
306.0962 / M E