The Egyptian art world is the oldest and largest in the Arab Middle
East. Its artists must reckon with the histories of ancient Egypt,
European modernism, anti-colonial nationalism, and state
socialism-all in the context of a growing neoliberal economy marked
by American global dominance. At this crucial intersection of
culture, politics, and economy, Egypt's art and artists provide
unique insight into current struggles for cultural identity and
sovereignty in the Middle East. This book examines the heated
cultural politics in today's Arab world, and tells how art-making
has become an unexpectedly central part of that. It offers a lively
analysis of the battles between artists, curators, and audiences
over cultural authenticity, cultural policy, public art in a
changing urban Egypt, and the new global marketing of Egyptian art.
The art world it shows powerfully exemplifies how people in the
Middle East reckon with global transformations that are changing
how culture is made in societies with colonial and socialist pasts.
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