Nancy Demerdash
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Demerdash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Demerdash |
| SIGNATURE | DEMERDASH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albion College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rebuilding for modern living
Constructing Cool
This article examines the visual culture and fashion aesthetics of “Mipsterz,” or Muslim hipsters. Though the term originated amongst a group of friends based in New York in 2012, the neologism has arguably taken on a global life in fashion blogs and social media, with influencers from Turkey to Indonesia connecting transnationally. Many public debates celebrate these young, alternative voices and their projected self-images, while others critiqu…
Archival critique and activism
Many might argue that the prospects of a progressive politics and democratic governance that the 2011 Egyptian revolution sought to realize have completely vanished. Those revolutionary aspirations for social change, political justice, economic opportunity, or civic equality have disintegrated, for some, into disillusioned desperations. In turn, recent cultural discourse about Egypt’s post-revolutionary malaise has often been couched in terms of …
Of “Gray Lists” and Whitewash
While contemporary artists in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries understand how the thematic and aesthetic limits imposed on their work can lead to various forms of censorship, their widespread, deliberate self-censorship and blatant avoidance of certain content is perhaps more worrying. But not all creative productivity is whitewashed. Blurred lines and unclear constraints may yield unsuspected ingenuity, enabling artists to circumvent…
Bordering nowhere
Inasmuch as the events of 2010 and 2011 ushered in tremendous shifts in political consciousness across the Mashreq and Maghreb, they too increased the mass movements and migrations of humanity. That Maghrebi spheres of cultural production have sought to document and problematise these seismic transformations is undeniable. While narratives of hardship, stagnation, and political struggles undergird most analyses of the post-revolutionary Maghreb a…
Consuming Revolution
The scenes from the momentous spring of 2011 are all too familiar to us now: masses of people crowding the streets of downtown metropolises, holding up signs, waving their flags, proudly marking what is theirs—their nation—and what deserves to be theirs—a civil democracy. These reclamations have been appropriately dubbed by many in the Arabic press as “dignity revolutions
Bordering nowhere
Inasmuch as the events of 2010 and 2011 ushered in tremendous shifts in political consciousness across the Mashreq and Maghreb, they too increased the mass movements and migrations of humanity. That Maghrebi spheres of cultural production have sought to document and problematise these seismic transformations is undeniable. While narratives of hardship, stagnation, and political struggles undergird most analyses of the post-revolutionary Maghreb a…
Consuming Revolution
The scenes from the momentous spring of 2011 are all too familiar to us now: masses of people crowding the streets of downtown metropolises, holding up signs, waving their flags, proudly marking what is theirs—their nation—and what deserves to be theirs—a civil democracy. These reclamations have been appropriately dubbed by many in the Arabic press as “dignity revolutions
Bordering nowhere
Inasmuch as the events of 2010 and 2011 ushered in tremendous shifts in political consciousness across the Mashreq and Maghreb, they too increased the mass movements and migrations of humanity. That Maghrebi spheres of cultural production have sought to document and problematise these seismic transformations is undeniable. While narratives of hardship, stagnation, and political struggles undergird most analyses of the post-revolutionary Maghreb a…
Of “Gray Lists” and Whitewash
While contemporary artists in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries understand how the thematic and aesthetic limits imposed on their work can lead to various forms of censorship, their widespread, deliberate self-censorship and blatant avoidance of certain content is perhaps more worrying. But not all creative productivity is whitewashed. Blurred lines and unclear constraints may yield unsuspected ingenuity, enabling artists to circumvent…
Archival critique and activism
Many might argue that the prospects of a progressive politics and democratic governance that the 2011 Egyptian revolution sought to realize have completely vanished. Those revolutionary aspirations for social change, political justice, economic opportunity, or civic equality have disintegrated, for some, into disillusioned desperations. In turn, recent cultural discourse about Egypt’s post-revolutionary malaise has often been couched in terms of …
Constructing Cool
This article examines the visual culture and fashion aesthetics of “Mipsterz,” or Muslim hipsters. Though the term originated amongst a group of friends based in New York in 2012, the neologism has arguably taken on a global life in fashion blogs and social media, with influencers from Turkey to Indonesia connecting transnationally. Many public debates celebrate these young, alternative voices and their projected self-images, while others critiqu…
Rebuilding for modern living
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public Spaces through Art (3 works)