Arab Subcultures

Chapter 1 Introduction: Sub-culturing or any type of culturing as a temporal conjunctureTarik Sabry and Layal FtouniChapter 2 'Hatha al-Shibl min dhak al-Asad': Arab Youth Studies and the revival of 'subculture' Ramy AlyChapter 3 Hacking Rites: Recoding the Political in Contemporary Cultural Practices Tarek El-ArissChapter 4 On 'Resistance': Affective Politics in Live Performances of Arabic Rap Rayya El-ZeinChapter 5 Cosmopolitans, Nationalists and Fundamentalists in the Modern Middle East Sami Zubaida (reprint from Beyond Islam, 2011, I.B. Tauris)Chapter 6 Mediated Imagination, Class and Cairo's Young Cosmopolitan Heba ElsayedChapter 7The Terrain of Subculture in Silences of the Palace (Mofida Tlatli, 1994) Margherita SprioChapter 8 Screening Everyday Violence: Youth, Globalisation and Subcultural Aesthetics in Moroccan CinemaJamal BahmadChapter 9 Visualising the Unseen: Documentary Filmmaking and LGBT Performativity in Lebanon Nisrine MansourChapter 10 Mithly.net: An Alternative Digital Discourse From Morocco, 2010-2011 Justin McGuinnessChapter 11 The Cultural Avant-Gardes and the Social Net: The Case of Egypt Stefan WinklerChapter 12 Just a bunch of (Arab) geeks? How an elite of "techies" shaped a digital culture in the Arab region and contributed to the making of the Arab uprisings Donatella Della Ratta & Augusto ValerianiChapter 13 Performative Interventions in Public Space: An interview with Dictaphone Group Conducted by Layal FtouniIndex

Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster, in the UK, where he is a member of the Communication and Media Research Institute and the director of the Arab Media Centre.