Full Description
This book is available open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
The so-called Arab Spring challenged conventional wisdom and certainties about the Arab world where its effects continue to be felt as well as in the diaspora.
This book provides an original contribution to current social and cultural theory on Arab social movements by giving a fuller historical and critical treatment of contemporary artistic and cultural production from the region and beyond.
Thematically structured and covering culture, media, politics, and literary studies, the book uses a range of theoretical material that engages readers in three key ways. First, it adopts a critical standpoint with respect to the term "Arab Spring," recognizing the multiple interpretations and varied geographical, historical, and political realities of the term. Second, its focus on carefully selected case studies - namely, Egypt, Tunis, Syria, and Yemen - adds depth to analysis of the cultural, literary and artistic dimensions that operate fluidly across the Arab world. Third, it presents a methodological case study for the growing community of researchers involved in interdisciplinary education.
Together, the contributors to the book show how the interplay of politics, culture, and media across varied locations has and continues to shape emergent Arab social forms and a region on the cusp of historical and cultural change.
Contents
Introduction: by Eid Mohamed and Ayman El-Desouky
Part I: Senses of Belonging: Explorations of Transcultural Spaces
Chapter I: Transculturation in a Changing Arab World: Engaging Contexts in Conversation By Eid Mohamed
Chapter II: Identity Politics and Digital Space: Adel Abidin's Abidin Travels: Welcome to Baghdad By Jenna Ann Altomonte
Chapter III: Transcultural Arab Identities in the West: Canadian - Arab Youth Navigating Culture, Identity, and Belonging By Bessma Momani and Melissa Finn
Chapter IV: Reshaping Social Practice in Post-Arab Spring Egypt: Expression of Identity and Affiliation in New Media By Mohamed Hassan
Part II- Migration and the Challenges of Subjectivation
Chapter V:Refugees as a Hybridizing Force in the Jordanian Society By Barkuzar Dubbati
Chapter VI: Ontological Citizenship: A Realignment of Rights and Responsibilities Between the Individual and the State(s) in 21st Century Migration and Transnationalism By Saeed A. Khan
Part III Transcultural Dimensions in Contemporary Arab Literature and Culture
Chapter VII: Changing Geography: Transcultural Arab Identity in the Age of the EU By Katie Logan
Chapter VIII: The Fractured Music of Arab-Jewish Friendships: Waguih Ghali's Beer in the Snooker Club and Ismaël Ferroukhi's Free Men By Caroline Rooney
Chapter IX: Hédi Bouraoui: Transcultural Sense of Belonging By Abderrahman Beggar
Chapter X: Poetics of the Virtual: Technology and Revolution in the Poetry of Sghaier Ouled Ahmed By Hager Ben Driss
Part IV: Occupying Interstices and the Aesthetics of Dissent
Chapter XI: Interstitial Space of the Art of Protest By Hamid Dabashi
Chapter XII: The Chaos of a Scream: A Critical Reading of Houthis' Sarkha in Yemen By Waleed F. Mahdi
