The avant garde, arab spring & contemporary Egypt

The Avant Garde, Arab Spring and Contemporary Egypt.

     This work explores threads of Islamic culture, that grow from definitions of a renewing society - the Arab Spring, in the context of contemporary Egypt.  The researcher, as sociologist and ethnographer, investigates aspects of the global and local, as she looks at ambiguities, cleavages and impasses between art, culture and religion.

     Inevitably, questions arise that address the new democratic aspirations;  these aspirations are linked to the micro-culture of Tahrir Square. We look at physical, social, spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual dimensions of the life of the Square; and in these processes, the emergence of new and contemporary discourse.  The research points to trends, aspirations and perceived ongoing realities in the new Egypt.