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Samah Selim
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
![[Cover of Arab Studies Journal Vol. XX No. 1 (Spring 2012)]](/content_images/3/sm_asj.jpg "[Cover of Arab Studies Journal Vol. XX No. 1 (Spring 2012)]")
Mara Naaman, Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In January and February of 2011, Egyptians descended upon public squares throughout the country to bring an end to the thirty-year regime of Husni Mubarak. For those eighteen days—and on many other ...
Keep Reading »Egypt and the Future of the Corporate Grid
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Many analysts have been commenting on the broader significance of the astonishing and awe-inspiring events that have swept Egypt by storm over the past six days. From Tunisia to Yemen, the Arab world is in open revolt against the sclerotic, corrupt and vicious dictatorships that have held power with the tacit support of the US and EU for decades. The status quo in the region – in the form of received wisdom about ‘the Arab street’, the Islamist ‘menace’ and business-as-usual ...
Keep Reading »Book Review: "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject"
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[Review of Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, Princeton UP, 2005] Much of the implicit political background -- the staging-point -- of Saba Mahmood’s highly acclaimed ethnography of the women’s mosque movement in Egypt Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject is laid out in the brief preface to the book. In a couple of pages Mahmood discusses the sense of embattlement and alienation ...
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Samah Selim is assistant professor of Arabic literature at Rutgers University and the author of The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt 1880-1985 (Routledge, 2004). She is a Contributor to Jadaliyya Ezine.
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