Leaks, hacks, and scandals Arab culture in the digital age
How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politics. In recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek El-Ariss situates these critiques of power wit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2019, ©2019
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| Series: | Translation/transnation
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- Writing Codes
- Digital World- Making
- Theoretical Framework: The Leaking Subject
- Trials of Adab in the Digital Age
- Bookmarks
- 1. On Leaking: From The Arabian Nights to WikiLeaks
- Registers of the Leak
- Marked Bodies
- "L'art ne cédera pas à vos règles!": Rupi Kaur and Aliaa Elmahdy
- Leak contra Lack
- Exploiting Security Holes: Manning, Assange, Snowden
- The Wiki in WikiLeaks
- Untaming the Leak
- Conclusion
- 2. What Is in My Heart Is on My Twitter
- Wael Abbas: Adab Violations
- Equality in Insult
- Exposure, Scene-making, Scandal
- Affective Transparency
- Digital Consciousness
- Regime in Fragments
- Ideal Past, Concrete Present
- Conclusion
- 3. The Infinite Scroll
- Tweets, Leaks, Akhbār
- Glass House of Twitter
- Mujtahidd: A Jinn from Arabia
- Leakaesthetics
- Mystery of Knowledge
- Canonizing Exposure
- Serial Gutter
- Conclusion
- 4. Fiction of Scandal Redux
- Digital Fascination, Literary Anxiety
- Girls of Riyadh: Hacking the Bestseller
- Scandal in Translation
- Taxi: Leaking while Driving
- Shaking the Regime
- Conclusion
- 5. Cyber- Raiding
- Twitter: All the Rage!
- The Blasphemous Author
- Ghazwa: A Hashtag Raid
- Displacement of Knowledge
- Can the Mawʾ ūda Speak?
- In the Name of the Youth
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index