Egyptian Military in Popular Culture

Context and Critique

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book examines a key question through the lens of popular culture: Why did the Egyptian people opt to elect in June 2014 a new president (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), who hails from the military establishment, after toppling a previous military dictator (Hosni Mubarak) with the breakout of the 25 January 2011 Revolution?

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Utgivningsdatum2016-12-01
Mått148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137593719

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Dalia Said Mostafa is Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She has published extensively in both Arabic and English on the contemporary Arabic novel, Arab cinema, and popular culture in Egypt. She is the editor of a special issue entitled ‘Women, Culture, and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution’, in the Journal for Cultural Research (vol. 19.2, 2015).

Introduction: Multi-Layered Images of the Egyptian Military in Popular Culture.- 1.Popular Images of Army Officers and Freedom Fighters as National Heroes in the 1950s and 1960s.- 2.Various Representations of the Martyred Soldier in the 1967 June War and the Victorious Hero in the 1973 October War.- 3.Transformation of the Popular War Hero’s Image under Mubarak and the Breakout of the 2011 January Revolution.- Conclusion.The Undoing of the Revolutionary Discourse and the ‘Legitimisation’ of the Counter-Revolution with Sisi’s Presidency