Cairo: Images of Transition

Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt 2011-2013

The Egyptian revolution of 2011 has significantly changed the relationship between citizens, public space, and visual expression. »Cairo: Images of Transition« traces these developments and their effects on political communication, urban space, and cultural production.

The book is the first publication to offer a deep view on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the wake of the Egyptian revolution 2011. Renowned Egyptian and international writers, artists and activists trace the shifting status of the image as a communicative tool, a witness to history, and an active agent for change.

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25 September 2013, 284 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2615-5

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Mikala Hyldig Dal

Mikala Hyldig Dal, American University Kairo, Ägypten

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»This edited volume provides a unique look at theEgyptian revolution by granting agency to activists anddescribing how art continually serves as a language ofcontestation. The book, however, lacks a solid theo-retical basis that situates this specific case study in thewider literature on social movements and feminist lit-erature on gender and nationalism.«
Anwar Mhajne, H-Net-Reviews, 3 (2016)

»These texts are at once inspiring, critical and reflexive.«
Wasafiri Issue, 81 (2015)

»Sehr zu empfehlen.«
Sebastian Gerth, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2 (2015)

»[The book] provides an innovative and nuanced account of the significance of images during this exceptional period.
Rather than a monument to a past moment, [the book] should be seen as an effort to sustain this revolutionary opening in its various iterations, thus harnessing the generativity of these exceptional events.«
Mark R. Westmoreland, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, 4 (2015)

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Author(s): Mikala Hyldig Dal (ed.)
Book title: Cairo: Images of Transition Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt 2011-2013
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Pages: 284
Features: kart., Klebebindung, durchgängig vierfarbig

ISBN: 978-3-8376-2615-5
DOI: 10.14361/transcript.9783839426159
Commodity Group: 1725
BIC-Code: JFSG ABA JFD
BISAC-Code: SOC026030 ART009000 SOC052000 ART037000
THEMA-Code: JBSD ABA JBCT

Release date: 25 September 2013
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Topics: Bild, Kunst, Stadt
Readership: Art History, Cultural Science, Political Science, Middle East Studies and a broad public with an interest in current cultural and political developments in the MENA region

Keywords/Tags: Revolution, Egypt, Arab Spring, Image Politics, Art, Urbanity, Image, Arts, Urban Studies, Visual Studies, Political Art, Africa, Sociology

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Erratum

Photograph on top page 268 should have been inserted in page 251 (Photograph by Mona Abaza) to accompany the text describing the Mohammed Mahmud incidents of 23th of November 2012. This article should be read as part of a series of photo reportages on Mohammed Mahmud Street as a memorial and performative dramaturgical space. See Mona Abaza, "An Emerging Memorial Space? In Praise of Mohammed Mahmud Street", in Jadaliyya, 10 March 2012 (http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4625/an-emerging-memorial-space-in-praise-of-mohammed-m) and "The Dramaturgy of a Street Corner", 25 January 2013 (http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/9724/the-dramaturgy-of-a-street-corner).