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Autore |
Mehrez Samia |
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Titolo |
Egypt's Culture Wars [[electronic resource] ] : Politics and Practice |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cairo, : American University in Cairo Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-61797-039-5 |
1-936190-67-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Arabic literature -- Egypt -- History and criticism |
Arts -- Political aspects -- Egypt |
Arts, Egyptian -- 20th century |
Culture conflict -- Egypt |
Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century |
Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 21st century |
Politics and culture -- Egypt |
Politics and literature -- Egypt |
Electronic books. |
Egypt Intellectual life 20th century |
Egypt Intellectual life 21st century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Plates""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Prologue""; ""Part I Inside the literary establishment""; ""1 Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf""; ""2 Children of our alley""; ""3 The big one""; ""4 The value of freedom""; ""Part II Remaking culture""; ""5 Lost in globalization""; ""6 Translating gender between the local and the global1""; ""7 Where have all the families gone?""; ""8 From the hara to the imara""; ""Part III The bounds of change""; ""9 Taking the soap out of the opera""; ""10 The new kid on the block""; ""11 Found in Cairo""; ""12 Literature and literalism"" |
""Epilogue""""Appendices""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work presents research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the 21st century. It deconstructs the boundaries between |
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