The Naked Blogger Of Cairo: Creative Insurgency In The Arab World

The book "The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World" is about the creative insurgency in the Arab world. The author, Kraidys, dives deep into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings and uncovers the creative urges of wired Arab youth. This book is important not just for scholars, but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution.

A Times Higher Education Book of the YearUprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings. A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisingsKraidys sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new Arab generations irrepressible creative urges will amply reward the effort. Reading Kraidys accounts of the politically charted cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and offers hope for the future.
?Marc Lynch, Washington PostThe Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution.
?Hans Rollman, PopMatters