Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian
Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian

Author: Brandon LaBelle

Publisher: Doormats

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982743973

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The ongoing protest movements spanning the globe seek to challenge, revitalize and rethink political processes as well as demand economic justice. Forming into a dispersed and poignant network of struggles, the current situation reveals a global culture of hope, angst and imagination. Author and artist Brandon LaBelle has sought to engage these events by way of a diary of affiliation and reciprocation in which personal memories and cultural reflections search for remote connection, in particular, with the Arab Spring. His Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian is marked by an urgency to unsettle divides, both imaginary and physical, between west and east, Anglo and Arab, and to put into question narratives of the political. Written between February and June of 2011, the Diary functioned as a daily consideration of the intensity of events erupting around the world structurally linked to personal thoughts and memories.

Egyptian Diary
Egyptian Diary

Author: Richard Platt

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 076367849X

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"A fresh, lively voice. . . . Replete with details of daily life." — Kirkus Reviews The year is 1464 BC, and Nakht’s family is moving to the city of Memphis. Nakht, who is studying to be a scribe, keeps a journal of the many sights and sounds of the bustling city — temples and pyramids, cargo ships, a hippopotamus hunt, even a tomb robbery. Presented as a lively diary, here is an invitation for readers to witness firsthand what life was like for one boy in Egypt 3,500 years ago.

Egyptian Diary
Egyptian Diary

Author: Richard Platt

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0763670545

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"A fresh, lively voice. . . . Replete with details of daily life." — Kirkus Reviews The year is 1464 BC, and Nakht’s family is moving to the city of Memphis. Nakht, who is studying to be a scribe, keeps a journal of the many sights and sounds of the bustling city — temples and pyramids, cargo ships, a hippopotamus hunt, even a tomb robbery. Presented as a lively diary, here is an invitation for readers to witness firsthand what life was like for one boy in Egypt 3,500 years ago.

The Streets Are Talking to Me
The Streets Are Talking to Me

Author: Maria Frederika Malmström

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0520304330

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This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society—the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-conscious ethnography of the space where affect, material life, violence, political crisis, and masculinities meet one another.

Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary
Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

Author: Omar Khalifah

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1474410200

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The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah's analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser.

Uncommon Grounds
Uncommon Grounds

Author: Anthony Downey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0857724266

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In this groundbreaking book, a range of internationally renowned and emerging academics, writers, artists, curators, activists and filmmakers critically reflect on the ways in which visual culture has appropriated and developed new media across North Africa and the Middle East. Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices - and social movements - in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of creating, broadcasting, publishing, distributing and consuming digital images, this book also enquires into a broader global concern: does new media offer a 'democratisation' of - and a productive engagement with - visual culture, or merely capitalise upon the effect of immediacy at the expense of depth?Featuring full-colour artists' inserts, this is the first book to extensively explore the degree to which the grassroots popularity of Twitter and Facebook has been co-opted into mainstream media, institutional and curatorial characterisations of 'revolution' - and whether artists should be wary of perpetuating the rhetoric and spectacle surrounding political events. In the process, Uncommon Grounds reveals how contemporary art practices actively negotiate present-day notions of community-based activism, artistic agency and political engagement.

Princess of Egypt
Princess of Egypt

Author: Vince Cross

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781407103099

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In 1490 BC Asha, daughter of King Tuthmosis, lives a carefree life at the royal court in Thebes. But when a prophecy foretells that 'a young woman will prove to be the best man in the Two Kingdoms' she's caught up in a world of plots and danger . . .

Diary of an Egyptian Quest
Diary of an Egyptian Quest

Author: Nicholas Harris

Publisher:

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764162091

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(back cover) Josh and Maisie are two adventure-loving kids who discover a mysterious small door at the back of their Grandpa's bookcase. As they squeeze through the doorway, they travel back in time . . . Read about their amazing exploits as they uncover a plot to steal Pharaoh's treasure and join in on their fun as you lift the flaps and find maps, charts, booklets, letters, and other items attached to the exciting illustrations on every page. TITLES IN THIS EXCITING SERIES Diary of a Dinosaur Trek Diary of a Pirate Voyage Diary of an Egyptian Quest

The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art
The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art

Author: Marcel Cobussen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1317672771

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The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art presents an overview of the issues, methods, and approaches crucial for the study of sound in artistic practice. Thirty-six essays cover a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sounding art from the fields of musicology, cultural studies, sound design, auditory culture, art history, and philosophy. The companion website hosts sound examples and links to further resources. The collection is organized around six main themes: Sounding Art: The notion of sounding art, its relation to sound studies, and its evolution and possibilities. Acoustic Knowledge and Communication: How we approach, study, and analyze sound and the challenges of writing about sound. Listening and Memory: Listening from different perspectives, from the psychology of listening to embodied and technologically mediated listening. Acoustic Spaces, Identities and Communities: How humans arrange their sonic environments, how this relates to sonic identity, how music contributes to our environment, and the ethical and political implications of sound. Sonic Histories: How studying sounding art can contribute methodologically and epistemologically to historiography. Sound Technologies and Media: The impact of sonic technologies on contemporary culture, electroacoustic innovation, and how the way we make and access music has changed. With contributions from leading scholars and cutting-edge researchers, The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art is an essential resource for anyone studying the intersection of sound and art.