The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World

by Marwan M. Kraidy

Book Overview

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 overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737083
• ISBN13: 9780674737082
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"