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Book SynopsisThis book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance. Encompassing a stunning array of forms and genres, such as graffiti, street performance, photography, phototexts, novels, and comics, the book draws from a vast spectrum of artistic production in revolutionary periods between 2011 and 2022 in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. El Nossery sheds light on women’s postrevolutionary artistic output by engaging an interdisciplinary approach: the book is divided into three sections which foreground the unique relationship between textual, visual, and performative modes as they intertwine with art and politics.
Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art thereby aims to demonstrate how art, as always oriented towards an open future, can preserve the revolutionary spirit that was sparked in 2011 by documenting what happened and determining which stories would be told. The revolution, therefore, continues.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I Visualizing the Revolution.- Chapter 2. Bahia Shehab: The (In)visible Cairo Street Artist.- Chapter 3. Identity and Memory in Héla Ammar’s Photo-Embroidery.- Part II Performing the Revolution.- Chapter 4. When Women’s Bodies Speak in Public.- Chapter 5. Comics Against Taboos in Morocco.- Part III Writing The Revolution.- Chapter 6. Kaouther Adimi’s Palimpsest of Revolutionary Histories.- Chapter 7. Revolutionary Art in Nomadic Spaces.- Chapter 8. Conclusion./
