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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 within a pervasive
culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and
political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by
digital technology yet emerge from traditional cultural models.
Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt
and the Arabian Peninsula, El-Ariss connects WikiLeaks to The
Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to
pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective
scene-making of Arab popular culture. He shifts the epistemological
and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the
digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as
the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and
intellectual debate. Theorizing the rise of "the leaking subject"
who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly
political means, El-Ariss investigates the digital consciousness,
virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the
public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of
scandal. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals maps the changing landscape of
Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how
concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual,
the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes
of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.
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 within a pervasive
culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and
political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by
digital technology yet emerge from traditional cultural models.
Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt
and the Arabian Peninsula, El-Ariss connects WikiLeaks to The
Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to
pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective
scene-making of Arab popular culture. He shifts the epistemological
and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the
digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as
the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and
intellectual debate. Theorizing the rise of "the leaking subject"
who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly
political means, El-Ariss investigates the digital consciousness,
virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the
public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of
scandal. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals maps the changing landscape of
Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how
concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual,
the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes
of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.
In the Nahda, or Arab Renaissance, from the early nineteenth to the
early twentieth century, Arab culture and politics for the first
time responded to European modernity and face the challenges to
Arab power, tradition, and identity posed by the industrial,
colonial nations of the West. In the process, Arab society both
imitated and innovated, translating contemporary foreign texts,
adopting new genres, developing journalism, creating a new
publishing industry, and building new educational systems as it
changed under conflicting forces: nationalism, secularism, Islamic
revival, and language reforms. Collected in this anthology are
texts by intellectuals, writers, clergy, and political figures that
deal with authority, social norms, conventions and practices both
secular and religious, gender roles, class, travel, and technology.
Presented in the original Arabic and in English translation, they
will be of interest of students of Arabic language and culture,
history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines.
Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity--which treat
it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a
universal narrative of progress and innovation--this study instead
offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and
contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan
al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy.
In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis,
the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing
confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty
prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab
project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.
Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity--which treat
it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a
universal narrative of progress and innovation--this study instead
offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and
contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan
al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy.
In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis,
the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing
confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty
prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab
project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.
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