Blogs & Literature & Activism : Popular Egyptian blogs and literature in touch

• The blogosphere and blogging provided Arab bloggers momentarily with a domain in which to criticize the government, call for change, break taboos and mobilize citizens. This book shows that many of the same societal and political problems that have been treated for decades in literary expression in Egypt are also brought up in five Egyptian, top-ranked blogs in the run-up to the uprising of January 2011. Social critical narrative themes common to the literature as well as to blogposts include criticism of poor governance, corruption, poverty, religious hypocrisy and the vast class differences existing in Egyptian society. Some of the bloggers call for democratic liberties such as human rights and freedom of expression.

Nyckelord

Arabic blogs

Arabic literature

Egyptian bloggers

Arab Spring

Literature

Litteraturvetenskap

Semitic Languages

Semitiska språk

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Media and Communication Studies

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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