Dalia Said Mostafa
Biographic Data
| ID | 642916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dalia Said Mostafa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dalia Said |
| FAMILY NAME | Mostafa |
| SIGNATURE | MOSTAFA D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8036-4784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women and Crime: The Egyptian Women's Prison in Drama
When the television drama series The Women's Prison ( Sijin al-Nisā’ ) was aired in Egypt during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in 2014 (covering thirty episodes, each around 30 to 40 minutes), it became a hit and attracted a huge audience (Fig. 1). This was partly due to the popularity of its major theme, which focused on women and crime through characters inhabiting the famous al-Qanatir al-Khayriyya women's prison, located on the outskirt…
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa
What is the relationship between popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa? 1 Historically, the region’s popular culture has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. However, the flourishing of popular creative expression as part of the mass protests and uprisings from the end of 2010 onwards has increased interest in popular culture and, particularly, in its role in mobilizing and articulating resistance to hegem…
Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics and Urban Space
"The coffeehouse is a microcosm of the larger Egyptian society with its history of multiculturalism and great diversity. It is not only a social space which was created and shaped by the people over decades in their streets, neighbourhoods and cities, but it also occupies a sphere in the popular imagination full of stories, memories and social networks. Despite the coffeehouse's cultural centrality and socio-political importance in Egypt, academi…
Bad girls of the Arab world
Bad girls of the Arab world is a critical intervention at a political moment in the Arab world where girls and women continue to face huge challenges and constraints on their freedom of expression
Shifting narratives of the police in Egyptian cinema before and after the January 2011 revolution
This article discusses shifting narratives of the police in Egyptian cinema before and after the 2011 revolution. It contextualises cinematic representations in a broad socio-historical framework that underlines the significance of the police and their enormous presence in citizens’ everyday lives in Egypt’s political history of state building. In the early years of the independent nation after the 1952 Free Officers’ coup, when the police was co…
The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture
This book examines a key question through the lens of popular culture: Why did the Egyptian people opt to elect in June 2014 a new president (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), who hails from the military establi
Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture
This special issue comes at a time when the Egyptian nation is facing deep divisions about the notion and definition of revolution. The articles here aim to look at the 2011 revolution and the central role of women within it from a critical perspective. Our objective is not to glorify the revolution or inflate the role of Egyptian women within its parameters, but to analyse and critique both the achievements and setbacks of this revolution and th…
Popular Protest Music and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.Music and performance have been at the heart of the ongoing Egyptian revolution since its outbreak on January 25, 2011. In this paper, we argue that popular protest music in particular has helped to shape and articulate emerging desires and aspirations as well as participating in criticisms and grievances at the site of political change. We aim to demonstrate, through the analysis of popular protest songs, how the 2011 Egy…
Popular Culture and Nationalism in Egypt: ‘Arab Lotfi and Egyptian Popular Music
This paper aims to establish some theoretical links between documentary film-making, popular culture, and the concept of nationalism in contemporary Egypt, through analysing two documentary films by film-maker 'Arab Lotfy, Seven Nights and a Dawn and Rango: Yield of the Nile. The two documentaries were produced in 1998 by the Egyptian Satellite Specialised Nile Channels. Through these documentaries, I aim to analyse how certain communities define…
Journeying through a Discourse of Violence: Elias Khoury's Yalo and Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game
The multiple forms and layers of violence which were created, sustained and perpetuated during the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990) have constituted a recurring theme in numerous novels and other for
Son'allah Ibrahim'sal-Talassus: The politics of modernity in Egypt through the child-narrator's lens
Son‘allah Ibrahim’s al-Talassus (translated as Stealth by Hosam Aboul-Ela, 2009) is a novel about the coming of age of a child through his deeply troubled relationship with his ageing father during the year 1948 when Egypt was still under British colonialism and monarchical rule. It is also the year of the Palestinian Nakba, when the Arabs and the Zionists were fighting in Palestine on the eve of the declaration of the state of Israel. This artic…
Re-Cycling the Flâneur in Elias Khoury's The Journey of Little Gandhi
The representation of Beirut in the contemporary Lebanese novel is perhaps one of the most prominent themes that occupies some literary critics today. Although the image of Beirut in the novel star
Literary Representations of Trauma, Memory, and Identity in the Novels of Elias Khoury and Rabī' Jābir
Nineteen years after the end of the long Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), we find that traumas and memories of the war years still haunt the novels of many Lebanese writers. For example, images of the civil war as well as everyday life in the post-war era permeate recent narratives of such novelists as Elias Khoury, Rabī' Jābir, 'Ulwiyya Subuh, Nadā Awar Jarrār, and Rābih 'Alameddīne. The war experience has defined and shaped the writing technique…
Popular Protest Music and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.Music and performance have been at the heart of the ongoing Egyptian revolution since its outbreak on January 25, 2011. In this paper, we argue that popular protest music in particular has helped to shape and articulate emerging desires and aspirations as well as participating in criticisms and grievances at the site of political change. We aim to demonstrate, through the analysis of popular protest songs, how the 2011 Egy…
Journeying through a Discourse of Violence: Elias Khoury's Yalo and Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game
The multiple forms and layers of violence which were created, sustained and perpetuated during the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990) have constituted a recurring theme in numerous novels and other for
Re-Cycling the Flâneur in Elias Khoury's The Journey of Little Gandhi
The representation of Beirut in the contemporary Lebanese novel is perhaps one of the most prominent themes that occupies some literary critics today. Although the image of Beirut in the novel star
Literary Representations of Trauma, Memory, and Identity in the Novels of Elias Khoury and Rabī' Jābir
Nineteen years after the end of the long Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), we find that traumas and memories of the war years still haunt the novels of many Lebanese writers. For example, images of the civil war as well as everyday life in the post-war era permeate recent narratives of such novelists as Elias Khoury, Rabī' Jābir, 'Ulwiyya Subuh, Nadā Awar Jarrār, and Rābih 'Alameddīne. The war experience has defined and shaped the writing technique…
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa
What is the relationship between popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa? 1 Historically, the region’s popular culture has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. However, the flourishing of popular creative expression as part of the mass protests and uprisings from the end of 2010 onwards has increased interest in popular culture and, particularly, in its role in mobilizing and articulating resistance to hegem…
Re-Cycling the Flâneur in Elias Khoury's The Journey of Little Gandhi
The representation of Beirut in the contemporary Lebanese novel is perhaps one of the most prominent themes that occupies some literary critics today. Although the image of Beirut in the novel star
Literary Representations of Trauma, Memory, and Identity in the Novels of Elias Khoury and Rabī' Jābir
Nineteen years after the end of the long Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), we find that traumas and memories of the war years still haunt the novels of many Lebanese writers. For example, images of the civil war as well as everyday life in the post-war era permeate recent narratives of such novelists as Elias Khoury, Rabī' Jābir, 'Ulwiyya Subuh, Nadā Awar Jarrār, and Rābih 'Alameddīne. The war experience has defined and shaped the writing technique…
Journeying through a Discourse of Violence: Elias Khoury's Yalo and Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game
The multiple forms and layers of violence which were created, sustained and perpetuated during the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990) have constituted a recurring theme in numerous novels and other for
Son'allah Ibrahim'sal-Talassus: The politics of modernity in Egypt through the child-narrator's lens
Son‘allah Ibrahim’s al-Talassus (translated as Stealth by Hosam Aboul-Ela, 2009) is a novel about the coming of age of a child through his deeply troubled relationship with his ageing father during the year 1948 when Egypt was still under British colonialism and monarchical rule. It is also the year of the Palestinian Nakba, when the Arabs and the Zionists were fighting in Palestine on the eve of the declaration of the state of Israel. This artic…
Popular Culture and Nationalism in Egypt: ‘Arab Lotfi and Egyptian Popular Music
This paper aims to establish some theoretical links between documentary film-making, popular culture, and the concept of nationalism in contemporary Egypt, through analysing two documentary films by film-maker 'Arab Lotfy, Seven Nights and a Dawn and Rango: Yield of the Nile. The two documentaries were produced in 1998 by the Egyptian Satellite Specialised Nile Channels. Through these documentaries, I aim to analyse how certain communities define…
Popular Protest Music and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.Music and performance have been at the heart of the ongoing Egyptian revolution since its outbreak on January 25, 2011. In this paper, we argue that popular protest music in particular has helped to shape and articulate emerging desires and aspirations as well as participating in criticisms and grievances at the site of political change. We aim to demonstrate, through the analysis of popular protest songs, how the 2011 Egy…
Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture
This special issue comes at a time when the Egyptian nation is facing deep divisions about the notion and definition of revolution. The articles here aim to look at the 2011 revolution and the central role of women within it from a critical perspective. Our objective is not to glorify the revolution or inflate the role of Egyptian women within its parameters, but to analyse and critique both the achievements and setbacks of this revolution and th…
The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture
This book examines a key question through the lens of popular culture: Why did the Egyptian people opt to elect in June 2014 a new president (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), who hails from the military establi
Shifting narratives of the police in Egyptian cinema before and after the January 2011 revolution
This article discusses shifting narratives of the police in Egyptian cinema before and after the 2011 revolution. It contextualises cinematic representations in a broad socio-historical framework that underlines the significance of the police and their enormous presence in citizens’ everyday lives in Egypt’s political history of state building. In the early years of the independent nation after the 1952 Free Officers’ coup, when the police was co…
Bad girls of the Arab world
Bad girls of the Arab world is a critical intervention at a political moment in the Arab world where girls and women continue to face huge challenges and constraints on their freedom of expression
Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics and Urban Space
"The coffeehouse is a microcosm of the larger Egyptian society with its history of multiculturalism and great diversity. It is not only a social space which was created and shaped by the people over decades in their streets, neighbourhoods and cities, but it also occupies a sphere in the popular imagination full of stories, memories and social networks. Despite the coffeehouse's cultural centrality and socio-political importance in Egypt, academi…
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa
What is the relationship between popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa? 1 Historically, the region’s popular culture has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. However, the flourishing of popular creative expression as part of the mass protests and uprisings from the end of 2010 onwards has increased interest in popular culture and, particularly, in its role in mobilizing and articulating resistance to hegem…
Women and Crime: The Egyptian Women's Prison in Drama
When the television drama series The Women's Prison ( Sijin al-Nisā’ ) was aired in Egypt during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in 2014 (covering thirty episodes, each around 30 to 40 minutes), it became a hit and attracted a huge audience (Fig. 1). This was partly due to the popularity of its major theme, which focused on women and crime through characters inhabiting the famous al-Qanatir al-Khayriyya women's prison, located on the outskirt…
Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works)