1st Edition
Women, Culture, and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture 1. Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution 2. Egypt’s revolution, our revolution: revolutionary women and the transnational avant-garde 3. Inserting women’s rights in the Egyptian constitution: personal reflections 4. Egyptian women, revolution and the making of a visual public sphere 5. A multimodal analysis of selected Cairokee songs of the Egyptian revolution and their representation of women 6. Gender and Tahrir Square: contesting the state and imagining a new nation 7. To write/to revolt: Egyptian women novelists writing the revolution 8. ‘Giving memory a future’: women, writing, revolution
Biography
Dalia Said Mostafa is a Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Manchester. Her forthcoming book is entitled The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture: Context and Critique (Palgrave Pivot). She has published studies in both Arabic and English on contemporary Arabic fiction, Arab cinema, and popular culture in Egypt.
