عنوان

Basic Cable: A reluctant American perspective on the Arab Spring through revolutionary art

Number

TL48521

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Basic Cable: A reluctant American perspective on the Arab Spring through revolutionary art

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Philip Ayoub

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Humphries, David T.; Gold, Matthew K.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

City University of New York

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

146

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-14760-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Liberal Studies

Body granting the degree

City University of New York

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

Supported by a critical component that traces back the Egyptian revolution of 2011 to its roots in the post-Nasser era when the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces assumed nearly complete political and economic control over the country, this novella, based in New York City, looks at the crisis through an American lens. As the story progresses the protagonist learns that the conditions which precipitated the events in Egypt can be viewed at once as both a product of American capitalism and Egyptian complicity, as well as act as a mirror, albeit on a magnified scale, of the changing socio-economic changes in the American landscape over the past few decades. What helps the protagonist discover this common link is his exposure to various characters and events that present the competing ways in which these issues are framed in trans-national cultural and economic contexts, and consequently, how they operate on different registers of entertainment and social efficacy.

Economics; Middle Eastern Studies; International Relations

Subject Term

Social sciences;American perspective;Egyptian revolution;Middle East

Liu, Lulu

Humphries, David T.; Gold, Matthew K.

Subdivision

Liberal Studies

City University of New York

Call Number

1734467176; 1601938

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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