This chapter is based on fieldresearch carried out in the Sohag Governorate, one of the poorest area in Egypt. It sheds light on the role of its inhabitants - young women and men first and foremost - in the context of the historical dynamics that have affected the country in recent years. It aims to provide new theoretical and empirical tools in order to de-simplify what in Europe and in the United States is commonly perceived as an “Egyptian Awakening” (Pollack & Byman, 2011), an Orientalist cliché implying that millions of people in the Arab world were “sleeping”.
Lorenzo Kamel (In stampa/Attività in corso). Youth Exclusion and Cultural Activism in Egypt’s Sohag Governorate. Bologna : BONONIA UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Youth Exclusion and Cultural Activism in Egypt’s Sohag Governorate
KAMEL, LORENZO
In corso di stampa
Abstract
This chapter is based on fieldresearch carried out in the Sohag Governorate, one of the poorest area in Egypt. It sheds light on the role of its inhabitants - young women and men first and foremost - in the context of the historical dynamics that have affected the country in recent years. It aims to provide new theoretical and empirical tools in order to de-simplify what in Europe and in the United States is commonly perceived as an “Egyptian Awakening” (Pollack & Byman, 2011), an Orientalist cliché implying that millions of people in the Arab world were “sleeping”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
