Open AccessConsuming Revolution: Ethics, Art and Ambivalence in the Arab Spring
Author(s) -
Nancy Demerdash
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
new middle eastern studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2051-0861
DOI - 10.29311/nmes.v2i0.2616
Subject(s) - flags register , ambivalence , spring (device) , downtown , dignity , painting , arabic , democracy , sociology , law , history , art , media studies , political science , visual arts , philosophy , psychology , engineering , psychoanalysis , politics , linguistics , mechanical engineering , archaeology , computer science , operating system
The scenes from the momentous spring of 2011 are all too familiar to us now: masses of people crowding the streets of downtown metropolises, holding up signs, waving their flags, proudly marking what is theirs—their nation—and what deserves to be theirs—a civil democracy. These reclamations have been appropriately dubbed by many in the Arabic press as “dignity revolutions.”