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Special Issue: Women, Culture, and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution

May 14, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements, Publications

Special Issue for Journal of Cultural Research Volume 19, Issue 2, 2015 Foreword Anastasia Valassopoulos pages 115-116 Acknowledgements page 117 Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture Dalia Said Mostafa pages 118-129 Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution Ziad Elmarsafy pages 130-138 Egypt’s revolution, our revolution: revolutionary women and the transnational avant-garde Caroline Rooney pages 139-149 Inserting women’s rights in

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Dalia Mostafa, Egyptian Revolution, gender, women

NEFERTITI'S DAUGHTERS (Sneak Preview #1)

April 12, 2015 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Bahia Shehab, Citizen Media, Egypt, Street Art, Translating Dissent

Preview of Mark Nickolas documentary film Nefertiti’s Daughters, featuring some of the most interesting street artists in Egypt. LOG LINE: Queen Nefertiti returns to join revolutionary street artists on the front lines in the fight for women’s rights and freedom in Egypt. SYNOPSIS: Nefertiti’s Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the