Arts & Culture

Film Production and Representing Dissent

Ahmed Ghazal

Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region. Ahmed Ghazal here looks at the way in which Egyptian film has shaped, and been shaped by, the events leading up to and beyond Egypt's 2011 revolution. Using interviews, analysis of films, and archival research, he analyses the critical issues affecting the political economy of the industry, technological developments of independent productions and representations of dictatorship, poverty, corruption and police brutality that have accompanied the people's calls for freedom - and the counterrevolution that has tried to suppress them.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 208 pages • 13 b/w illustrations PB 9780755635429 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780755603145 ePub 9780755603152 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755603169 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris

Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World

Arts, Thought and Literature

Edited by Anthony Gorman, The University of Edinburgh, UK & Sarah Irving, Linnaeus University, Sweden This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. Comprising 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the Algerian independence movement, it highlights the complex interplay of colonial pressures, traditional and novel art forms, local and international practices, notions of identity and belonging.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 280 pages • 41 b/w illustrations PB 9780755635405 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788319553 ePub 9780755606306 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755606320 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris Documentary Film and the Making of a Leader

Enis Dinç, Turkish-German University, Turkey The creation of Atatürk's public image through film had a dramatic impact on the political and cultural life of early Republican Turkey. Yet, there is almost no research that has analysed this footage. This book uncovers various film archives to show the evolution of Atatürk’s public image on film between 1919-1938, and highlights the contribution film made to the developing concept of the Turkish nation and Atatürk.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 256 pages PB 9780755646937 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788312257 ePub 9780755602049 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755602032 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris

The Egyptian Coffeehouse

Culture, Politics and Urban Space

Dalia Mostafa, University of Manchester, UK & Amina Elbendary, American University in Cairo, Egypt This book explores the crucial role played by the coffeehouse in facilitating political mobilisation during historical events, as well as in recent years during the 2011 revolution and its aftermath. Using historical, cultural and empirical analysis in the form of extended interviews with residents of Cairo, the book provides an interdisciplinary account of the central place that the coffeehouse holds and has held in Egyptian society.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 192 pages • 6 bw & 5 colour illus PB 9780755635498 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780755635245 ePub 9780755635283 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755635290 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris