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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 175–196.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Manar Shorbagy Duke University Press 2007 All translations are the author's. The Egyptian Movement for Change — Kefaya: Redefining Politics in Egypt Manar Shorbagy The Egyptian...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 493–513.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt Julia Elyachar With the antiglobalization protests in Washington, D.C., in April 2000, the W term globalization took a new turn on its slippery discursive slope. First...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2005
... travel writing, legal discourses, and modern Egyptian literature. He also serves on the editorial committee of Middle East Report . Anxious Advocacy: The Novel, the Law, and Extrajudicial Appeals in Egypt...
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Published: 01 September 2014
Figure 3 Buffer zone, Gaza-Egypt, 2000–2004. Image from Human Rights Watch 2004. Image courtesy Human Rights Watch More
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 235–259.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir; Nil Mutluer; Esra Özyürek Today thousands of academics from Turkey, along with others from Syria, Iran, and Egypt, are deserting their homeland in search of intellectual refuge in Western countries. These exiled academics practice diverse forms of teaching and researching...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 493–513.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Lila Abu-Lughod Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Literature Cited Abaza , Mona . 1987 . The Changing Image of Women in Rural Egypt . Cairo Papers in Social Science 10 (no. 3). Cairo: American University in Cairo press. Abu-Lughod , Lila . 1986 . Veiled...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 49–71.
Published: 01 January 2023
.... Ambivalence in face of suspicion is a given, but it takes specific shapes and dynamics. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 affective materiality agency politics suspicion Egypt When everyday things turn ambiguous, familiar materialities produce...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 623–642.
Published: 01 September 2012
... to be a completely different topic, but I see parallels in the Timothy Mitchell approach. How did that article begin? TM: Two things drove me to write that article. I was coming up for tenure in a political science department. The chair, a game theorist, told me Colonising Egypt was not really a work...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 127–152.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., when the new elected leaders of the country, President Moncef Marzouki and the president of the National Constituent Assembly, Mustapha Ben Ja’far, were pelted with tomatoes and stones and driven out of a rally in Sidi Bouzid, the town that had sparked the revolt two years earlier. In nearby Egypt...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 259–279.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Historically, religion was beginning to be important. We’re talking about the 1960s and 1970s, when I visited Egypt often. It seemed too unsatisfactory to take the attitude many did. First of all, it seemed to me, for people who wanted to make contact with the masses, not to have any real interest...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 299–318.
Published: 01 May 2005
... the Shadowy and of Egypt the Sphinx” (5–6). The proleptic time of national belonging, in which it will be “possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American” (5), goes hand in hand with the ana- leptic time of global longing, in the form...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 465–467.
Published: 01 September 1993
...: the late 1940s in the United States, but later in most of the less industrialized world- 1955 in Thailand, 1960 in Egypt, and 1987 in Papua New Guinea. Even the establishment of national broadcasting did not guarantee instantaneous reception nationwide; not until the mid-l980s, for example, were...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 433–445.
Published: 01 May 1995
.... Arab Music In recent decades musicians from Egypt and Lebanon have been the most promi- nent in the Arab music world. Like other contemporary local musical cultures on the periphery of the West, the dynamic of musical change in these countries...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): v–viii.
Published: 01 September 2012
... (2005), which won the First Book Prize of the American Ethnological Society. Her recent articles include “Before (and after) Neoliberal- ism: Tacit Knowledge, Secrets of the Trade, and the Public Sec- tor in Egypt” (Cultural Anthropology, 2012) and “Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 161–183.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of Egypt”: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Davis Aeron . 2010 . Political Communication and Social Theory . New York : Routledge . Driessens Olivier . 2013 . “ The Celebritization of Society...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 361–386.
Published: 01 May 2002
... the establishment of the Gay International so much that ILGA relies on it as a corrective to its own research.20 An example of the research conducted by ILGA is its entry on Egypt in the Second ILGA Pink Book, where the authors inform us that “transvestite dancers, ‘Khawal’s’ [sic], who dance at feasts are very...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 41–70.
Published: 01 May 1991
... spectators a cheap voyage while re- maining in the metropolitan centers. This imperial mobility was already in- augurated in the Lumi5re brothers’ location shootings of diverse Third World sites such as India, Mexico, Egypt and Palestine, and catered to a symptomatic national-geographic mania...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 433–459.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., in the same way that lower-class festivities, such as the activities celebrating the birthdays of saints (mulids) in Egypt, are but one aspect of folk culture and the creations of avant-garde artists one element of a counterculture...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 515–544.
Published: 01 September 2002
... representation offices in Qatar and Oman. The Israeli private sector pursued regional ventures with Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinians in the areas of tourism, transportation, water, and the envi- ronment. Israeli textile firms began to transfer plants over Israel’s eastern and southern borders in search...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 1999
... authors trace it back to ancient Egypt, to the age when the conquests of the seventeenth dynasty finally succeeded in ele- vating Egypt to the rank of an empire. On the religious level, this imperialism is said to have been reflected in the development of new ideas, at least among the intellectual...