02895nam a2200481 a 4500 ebr10413283 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070921s2008 enka sb 001 0 eng d 2007039072 9780415428972 (hardback) 0415428971 (hardback) 9780203929001 (e-book) 0203929004 (e-book) 9789774163746 9781936190676 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)221265013 f-ua--- DT107.826 .M44 2008eb 962.05/5 22 Mehrez, Samia. Egypt's culture wars [electronic resource] : politics and practice / Samia Mehrez. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. xv, 335 p. : ill. Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13 Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-324) and index. Prologue: take them out of the ball game - Egypt's cultural players in crisis -- Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field -- Children of our alley: the AUC Naguib Mahfouz award and the Egyptian literary field -- The big one: the intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literary field -- The value of freedom: the writer against the establishment -- Lost in globalization: education and the stranded Egyptian elite -- Translating gender between the local and the global -- Where have all the families gone? Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s -- From the hara to the imara: emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo -- Taking the soap out of the opera: the case of Hagg Mitwalli's family -- The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere -- Found in Cairo: the limits of representation in the visual field -- Literature and literalism: the Al-khubz al-hafi crisis reconsidered. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Politics and culture Egypt. Culture conflict Egypt. Arabic literature Egypt History and criticism. Politics and literature Egypt. Arts Political aspects Egypt. Arts, Egyptian 20th century. Egypt Intellectual life 20th century. Egypt Intellectual life 21st century. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10413283 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 189444 189444