This book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance. Encompassing a stunning array of forms and genres, such as graffiti, street performance, photography, phototexts, novels, and comics, the book draws from a vast spectrum of artistic production in revolutionary periods between 2011 and 2022 in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. El Nossery sheds light on women’s postrevolutionary artistic output by engaging an interdisciplinary approach: the book is divided into three sections which foreground the unique relationship between textual, visual, and performative modes as they intertwine with art and politics. Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art thereby aims to demonstrate how art, as always oriented towards an open future, can preserve the revolutionary spirit that was sparked in 2011 by documenting what happened and determining which stories would be told. The revolution, therefore, continues.
Author(s): Nevine El Nossery
Series: Communication, Culture, and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 243
City: Cham
Praise for Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
From Singularities to Multitudes
Feminist Artivism
Chapters Outline
Part I: Visualizing the Revolution
Chapter 2: Bahia Shehab: The (In)visible Cairo Street Artist
Chapter 3: Identity and Memory in Héla Ammar’s Photo-Embroidery
Part II: Performing the Revolution
Chapter 4: When Women’s Bodies Speak in Public
Chapter 5: Comics Against Taboos in Morocco
Part III: Writing the Revolution
Chapter 6: Kaouther Adimi’s Palimpsest of Revolutionary Histories
Chapter 7: Revolutionary Art in Nomadic Spaces
References
Part I: Visualizing the Revolution
Chapter 2: Bahia Shehab: The (In)visible Cairo Street Artist
Bahia Shehab and Her Rebellious Cat
References
Chapter 3: Identity and Memory in Héla Ammar’s Photo-Embroidery
The Image as a Counter-Archive
References
Part II: Performing the Revolution
Chapter 4: When Women’s Bodies Speak in Public
Women’s Bodies and Performance
References
Chapter 5: Comics Against Taboos in Morocco
Women’s Movement in Morocco
A Brief History of Comics
Comics in the Arab World
Arab Women Artists and the Representation of Women in Comics
Zainab Fasiki
References
Part III: Writing The Revolution
Chapter 6: Kaouther Adimi’s Palimpsest of Revolutionary Histories
The Field of the Cité du 11-Décembre: Palimpsest of Histories
Another Arab Spring
The Military
Soccer as an Allegory of Revolution
Social Media
References
Chapter 7: Revolutionary Art in Nomadic Spaces
References
Chapter 8: Conclusion
References
Index
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