Bytes of Freedom: Literary Blogs in Egypt

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In the forth session of the Dream Seminar 2022 “The script of revolt. Writings, consignments, transcriptions in worlds in revolution”, we are pleased to welcome Teresa Pepe.
Teresa Pepe is Associate Professor in Arabic Studies at the University of Oslo. Her research interests span across Arabic literature, media, popular culture, sociolinguistics, and the relation
between aesthetics and politics. Her current research focuses on Arabic dystopian novels and their connection to social, political, and environmental changes in the region.
She is the author of the book Blogging From Egypt: Digital Literature, 2005-2016 (Edinburgh: EUP, 2019) that explores blogs as forms of digital literature emerging in Egypt during the rise of the political protest of the Arab Spring. She is the co-editor of the volume Arabic Literature in the Posthuman Age (with S. Guth, Harassowitz Verlag 2019), that examines the use of dystopia, necropolitics, monsters and satire in Arabic literature today. She is also the co-founder of the research network “Arab Media Transitions” that analyses the impact of media on Arabic culture and society from a historical perspective. She has published several articles in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Oriente Moderno, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and LEA- Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente.
Her presentation in the DREAM seminar is entitled “Bytes of Freedom: Literary Blogs in Egypt” and will be held in English.
Discussant: Youssef El Chazli –
Maître de conférences en sociologie, Université Paris 8
Membre de l’équipe de l’ERC-DREAM
Chercheur associé au CEDEJ (Le Caire)
The session, will be transmitted via Zoom.
Please register at dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.
We look forward to your participation!
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