The naked blogger of Cairo : creative insurgency in the Arab world /
"Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. 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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- In the name of the people. The people want ; The dictator's two bodies ; Creative insurgency
- Burning man. Protest suicide ; Viral pain ; The defender ; A bad rap ; Down and out in Tunis ; Loaves of contention ; A better future
- Laughing cow. Pharaoh's health ; A digital body politic ; Living martyr ; Funny men ; Laughing cow ; The poodle and the bear ; The lion and the eagle ; The dictator's tear
- Puppets and masters. An eye for an eye? ; The upper hand ; Sprayman ; Stencil standstill ; Top goon ; Giving Bashar the finger ; In sickness and in health
- Virgins and vixens. The naked blogger of Cairo ; The aesthetics of disrobement ; Dutiful daughter ; Blue bra girl ; Vigilance and virulence ; Sextremism and Islamophobia ; The dilemma of the liberals ; Abstract bodies?
- Requiem for a revolution? Concept pop? ; The creative-curatorial-corporate complex ; The Daesh stain ; Another pharaoh? ; The specter of death.