Cyberculture and Agency in Salmawy’s Butterfly Wings, Elkheshen’s Sabʿat Ayyām fil Taḥrīr and Soueif's Cairo: My City, Our Revolution | ||
| مجلة كلية الآداب - جامعة القاهرة | ||
| Volume 2023, Issue 10, October 2023 | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarts.2023.190316.1330 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Mohamed Salmawy’s novel Butterfly Wings that was published in January 2011 predicted the 25 January Revolution in Egypt. As for Hisham Elkheshen’s novel Sabʿat Ayyām fil Taḥrīr which translates in Arabic to 7 Days in Tahrir, was written after the ousting of Mubarak. Both are political novels that revolve around socio-political conflict and upheavals in Egypt from 2010-2011. The third work, Soueif's revolutionary memoir Cairo: My City, Our Revolution was originally written in English in 2012. In her Memoir, she focuses on the eighteen days of the Egyptian Revolution and her active participation in it together with the participation of some members of her family and friends. In the context of political events, the three works reveal how relationships and social bonds across the socio-economic diversity of Egyptian population took place through communication technologies. They also portray the countless violations of (women’s) rights, which lead to their call for freedom, justice, and the overthrow of the regime. The works will be analyzed from a feminist-Islamic perspective regarding women's rights in Islam, with reference to critics including Leila Ahmed, Fatima Mernissi, and Sally Engle Merry among others. The three works will also offer an opportunity to address a cyberculture perspective unfolding how communication technologies escorted the revolution to the extent that it is called the “Digital Revolution” with special emphasis on the work of Daneil Miller, Broadbent, Castells, Rheingold and Sherry Turkle. Keywords: Cyber theory, Digital revolution, Feminist issues, Arabic Revolution fiction, Memoir, 2011 Revolution. | ||
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