Samia Mehrez is Associate Professor at the Department of Arabic Studies, American University in Cairo, Egpyt.
Introduction. Prologue: Take Them Out of the Ball Game: Egyptian Cultural
Players in Crisis Part 1: Inside the Literary Establishment: Power
Struggles and Dreams of Autonomy 1. Dr. Ramzi and Mr. Sharaf: Sonallah
Ibrahim and the Duplicity of the Literary Field 2. Children of Our Alley:
The AUC Naguib Mahfouz Award and the Egyptian Cultural Field 3. The Big
One: The Intellectual and the Political in Modern Egyptian Literature 4.
The Value of Freedom: The Writer vs. the Literary Establishment Part 2:
Remaking Culture: Emerging Institutions, Discourses, Icons and Metaphors
5. Lost in Globalization: Education and the Stranded Egyptian Élite 6.
Translating Gender between the Local and the Global 7. Where Have All the
Families Gone: Egyptian Literary Texts of the Nineties 8. From the hara to
the imara: Emerging Urban Metaphors in Contemporary Texts on Cairo Part 3:
The Bounds of Change: State, Street, and Self Censorship 9. Taking the Soap
out of the Opera: The Case of Hagg Mitwalli's Family 10. The New Kid on the
Block: Bahibb issima (I love cinema) and the Emergence of the Coptic
Community in the Egyptian Public Sphere 11. Found in Cairo: The Limits of
Representation in the Visual Field 12. Literature and Literalism: Al-Khubz
Al-Hafi Crisis Reconsidered
