Samia Mehrez, "Egypt's Culture Wars: Politics and Practice"
R/ge | ISBN: 0415428971 | 2008 | PDF | 352 pages | 2,14 mb
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts.