Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice

by Samia Mehrez

This groundbreaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty-first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies, and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media, and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of questions about the relationship between the cultural and political fields in Egypt.

Genres: Egypt

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Nourhan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book tackles many interesting ideas: it takes us inside the literature establishment and how the writers in Egypt present their own views in a very hard way, then second part of the book tackles: globalization, gender, family and urban life and how they are reflected as principles in movies and books.
The third and final part talks about: bahibb issima and hagg mitwalli that are ,according to the writer affected our society to a huge extent.
The only problem that I faced in this book that it gives too much credit to a certain educational entity which was unrelated to the main idea that is discussed in every chapter.