Ramy Aly
Biographic Data
| ID | 104005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramy Aly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramy |
| FAMILY NAME | Aly |
| SIGNATURE | ALY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0062-5281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School
In this article I present experiences of Egyptians too young to have taken part in the street protests and movement of the 2011 revolution. Today in their early twenties, they narrate their experiences during the early months of the uprising. None claimed to be revolutionaries then or now, but the revolution seems to animate them in complex and long-lasting ways. The January revolution failed to bring about change at the level of state power. Yet…
Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas
Intertextuality
Intertextuality postulates that all texts are intrinsically entangled with other texts. Texts are a form of translinguistic semiotic practice and, in being permutations of other texts, are both destructive and constructive of language, genre, style, norms, and meaning. In this sense, they are both productive and redistributive of meaning while never being authoritative, bounded, or foreclosing interpretation by readers. Furthermore, texts always …
Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity
Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter
This paper compares the content, context and facilitation of discussions about religion and politics on contrasting types of Internet forum in English and Arabic, comparing forums linked to the current affairs output of the BBC World Service (BBCWS), Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya between 2007 and 2010. It examines how these forums are structured by a range of technological and political factors, reflecting the postcolonial context of encounter. It d…
Rebuilding Egyptian Media for a Democratic Future
The protests around Tahrir Square and other urban areas in Egypt represented a revolutionary moment in which the class, sectarian, gender and regional fractures and dynamics of Egyptian society were temporarily suspended. The protests, which were driven by a number of political and socio-economic factors, were significantly a rejection of the social and cultural consequences of life in the shadow of authoritarianism. Most Egyptians have been alie…
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School
In this article I present experiences of Egyptians too young to have taken part in the street protests and movement of the 2011 revolution. Today in their early twenties, they narrate their experiences during the early months of the uprising. None claimed to be revolutionaries then or now, but the revolution seems to animate them in complex and long-lasting ways. The January revolution failed to bring about change at the level of state power. Yet…
Rebuilding Egyptian Media for a Democratic Future
The protests around Tahrir Square and other urban areas in Egypt represented a revolutionary moment in which the class, sectarian, gender and regional fractures and dynamics of Egyptian society were temporarily suspended. The protests, which were driven by a number of political and socio-economic factors, were significantly a rejection of the social and cultural consequences of life in the shadow of authoritarianism. Most Egyptians have been alie…
Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter
This paper compares the content, context and facilitation of discussions about religion and politics on contrasting types of Internet forum in English and Arabic, comparing forums linked to the current affairs output of the BBC World Service (BBCWS), Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya between 2007 and 2010. It examines how these forums are structured by a range of technological and political factors, reflecting the postcolonial context of encounter. It d…
Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity
Intertextuality
Intertextuality postulates that all texts are intrinsically entangled with other texts. Texts are a form of translinguistic semiotic practice and, in being permutations of other texts, are both destructive and constructive of language, genre, style, norms, and meaning. In this sense, they are both productive and redistributive of meaning while never being authoritative, bounded, or foreclosing interpretation by readers. Furthermore, texts always …
Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School
In this article I present experiences of Egyptians too young to have taken part in the street protests and movement of the 2011 revolution. Today in their early twenties, they narrate their experiences during the early months of the uprising. None claimed to be revolutionaries then or now, but the revolution seems to animate them in complex and long-lasting ways. The January revolution failed to bring about change at the level of state power. Yet…
Sociology (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Arabs (1 works) · Art (1 works)