Papers by Ayman El-Desouky
Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2014
Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2013
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2011
... Why are we starving? What have we done? Then he will tell the stories and cite the lives of ... more ... Why are we starving? What have we done? Then he will tell the stories and cite the lives of Adham and Gabal, of Rifaa and Qassem some of our alley's great men. ... 2009. Prophets and Priests of the Nation: Naguib Mahfouz's Karnak Café and the 1967 Crisis in Egypt.. ...
Books by Ayman El-Desouky
The challenges of social cohesion and the radical possibilities of solidaristic action are among ... more The challenges of social cohesion and the radical possibilities of solidaristic action are among the most pressing issues on the global scene today. The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture argues for the need for a localized and culturally nuanced conceptual language with which to re-conceive the radical possibilities that have been unleashed with the recent social movements since 2011. Inspired by the Arab Spring, the book investigates representations of 'the people' in intellectual and political discourses. There has been much discussion of the intellectual's relation to power, but what is the intellectual's relation to 'the people'? Are 'the people' always spoken for, or do they also speak and in speaking produce their own knowledge? Focusing on the case of the Egyptian revolution, the author offers the specifically Egyptian cultural practice of amāra as a populist aesthetic of resonance and an ethic of solidarity.
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Papers by Ayman El-Desouky
Books by Ayman El-Desouky