Revolutionary Art and Politics in Egypt

This book is for me, and people like me: academics and their ilk of ‘the Latin West’ who over-romanticise and over-celebrate the Egyptian revolution, and the ‘Arab Spring’ more generally, because we are uneducated in history, context, and veracity. We are ignorant of any real sense of the particularities of the political-cultural event that is the 25 January revolution in 2011 (as well as its genealogies and its aftermath), of the local, of the street, of protest and dissent and commemoration, of community and solidarity, of a time when all art was revolutionary art, of cautious hope and inevitable disenchantment. Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso’s Revolutionary Art and Politics in Egypt is a necessary corrective. * Marquard Smith, UCL, University of London, UK, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Visual Culture *

Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso is an educator and researcher who holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, UK. Her main interests lie in issues relating to media and political practices, human rights law & international development, and the decolonization of knowledge in the S.W.A.N.A. (South West Asian/North African) region. Her academic writing has been published in peer review collections such as Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine (I.B.Tauris, 2013).