Syllabus/achievement requirements

Suggested readings

The following is a recommended reading list ¨C exact selection of primary sources and reference literature depends on students' selection of topic for the semester assingment essay.

Primary sources

Extracts from de following blogs:

?aw¨¡d¨©t

Tan¨¡t¨©f M¨¡?at

??yzah ?atgawwiz

al-Kanabah al-?amr¨¡

Kubr¨© Imb¨¡ba

M¨¡ bad¨¡ l¨©

N¨¡?il al-?¨±?¨©

Wa-?an¨¡ m¨¡-l¨©

H¨¡ka?¨¡ ?an¨¡

Wassi? ?ay¨¡lak

Yawmiyy¨¡t imra?ah mi?liyyah

Yawmiyy¨¡t ?¨¡nis

Reference Literature

• Detailed teaching plan says which texts should be prepared for which session.
• Additional readings may be specified according to students¡¯ choice of topic for the term paper

al-?Abd, Mu?ammad [et al.] (eds.) (2011). ¡°Al-mudawwin¨±n yata?adda?¨±n: ?ah¨¡d¨¡t min qalb mu?tama? al-tadw¨©n al-mi?r¨© wa-l-?arab¨©¡± [The bloggers speak: Testimonies from the heart of the Egyptian and Arabic blogging society]. Fu?¨±l: Ma?allat al-Naqd al-?Adab¨© [Fu?¨±l: The Journal of Literary Criticism] 79, 234-262.

Daoudi, Anissa (2011). ¡°Globalization, Computer-Mediated Communications and the Rise of e-Arabic¡±. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 4, 146¨C163.

El-Mougy, Sahar (2011). ¡°The Voice of the Egyptian Expatriates in Egypt: A Reading of "Imbaba Bridge" Blog as Resistance Literature¡±. In S. A. Kamel and H. Gindi (eds.), The Marginalized (Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Comparative Literature). Cairo: The Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University, 159-181.

El-Sadda, Hoda (2010). ¡°Arab Women Bloggers: The Emergence of Literary Counter publics¡±. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 3, 312-332.

Etling, Bruce / John, Kelly / Faris, Rob / Palfrey, John (2009). ¡°Mapping the Arab Blogosphere: Politics, Culture and Dissent¡±. Berkman Center Research Publication, 6. Available at: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ publications/2009/Mapping_the_Arabic_Blogosphere>.

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (2007). ¡°The Pleasure of the Blog: The Early Novel, the Serial and the Narrative¡±. In T. Burg, J. Shmidt (eds.), Blogtalks Reloaded, Wien: Books on Demand. Available at: <http://machines.pomona.edu/dossier/ files/2009/10/fitzpatrick-blogtalk.pdf>.

Himmer, Steve (2004). ¡°The Labyrinth Unbound: Weblogs as Literature¡±. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, and J. Reyman (eds.), Into the Blogosphere, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. Retrieved on October 7, 2011, from <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere>.

Hofheinz, Albrecht (2011). ¡°Nextopia: Revolution 2.0¡±. International Journal of Communication, 5, 1417-1434. Retrieved 13 October, 2013, from <http://ijoc.org/ index.php/ijoc/article/view/1186/629>.

Hofheinz, Albrecht (2005). ¡°The Internet in the Arab World: Playground for Political Liberalization¡±. International Politics and Society, 3, 78-96. Retrieved October 13, 2013, from <http://www.fes.de/IPG/IPG3_2005/07HOFHEINZ.PDF>.

?Ib¨¡dah, Mu??af¨¤ (2008). ¡°Mudawwan¨¡t: Kit¨¡bah ?ad¨©dah ?aw i?ti?¨¡? i?tim¨¡?¨©?¡± [Blogs: a new (form of) writing or a social uprising?]. Al-Ahr¨¡m al-?Arab¨©, 11, 22 March, 574, 48¨C52.

Jones, Elizabeth H. (2009). ¡°Autofiction: A Brief History of a Neologism¡±. In R. Bradford (ed.), Life Writing, Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 174- 184.

Klinenberg, Eric, and Benzecry, Claudio (2005). ¡°Cultural Production in a Digital Age¡±. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 597, 6-18.

Lynch, Mark (2007a). ¡°Blogging the New Arab Public¡±. Arab Media and Society 1. Retrieved December 3, 2010, from <http://www.arabmediasociety.com/ ?article=10>.

Miller, Carolyn, and Shepherd, Dawn (2004). ¡°Blogging as a Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog¡±. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, and J. Reyman (eds.), Into the Blogosphere, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. Retrieved October 7, 2011, from <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere>.

Otterman, Sharon (2007). ¡°Publicizing the Private: Egyptian Women Bloggers Speak Out.¡± Arab Media & Society 1. Retrieved November 30, 2011, from <http://www.arabmediasociety.com/topics/index.php?t_article=28>.

Peeters, Heidi (2007). ¡°The Networked Self: Autofiction on MySpace¡±. Image [&] Narrative [e-journal], 19. Retrieved May 20, 2011, from <http://www. imageandnarrative.be/autofiction/peeters.htm>.

Pepe, Teresa (2012) , ¡°Improper Narratives: Egyptian personal blogs and the Arabic notion of ?adab¡±, in LEA Lingue e Letterature d¡¯Oriente e d¡¯Occidente, vol. 1, pp. 547-562. http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/issue/view/894

Pepe, Teresa (2011) , ¡°From the Blogosphere to the Bookshop: Publishing Literary Blogs in Egypt¡±, in ¡°Between Everyday Life and Political Revolution: The Social Web in the Middle East¡±, Oriente Moderno, Nuova Serie, Anno XCI, 1, pp. 75-89.

Ramsay, Gail (2012). ¡°What kind of Arabic and why? Language in Egyptian blogs¡±. Orientalia Suecana LXI Suppl., 49-88.

Rifaat, Yasmine (2008). ¡°Blogging the Body: The Case of Egypt¡±. Surfacing, 1 (1), 50-70. Retrieved October 20, 2013, from <http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/ IGWS/GradCent/Documents/BloggingTheBody.pdf>.

Rooke, Tetz (2013). ¡°Autobiography in Arabic Literature. (b) Since 1900¡±. In G. Kr?mer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, E. Rowson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition, Brill Online, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013, from <http:// referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/autobiography-in-arabic-literature-b-since-1900-COM_23469>.

Rooke, Tetz (1998): The Arabic Autobiography of Childhood. In R. Ostle, E. de Moor and S. Wild (ed.) Writing the Self, London, Saqi Books.

Sal¨¡mah, ?Ab¨©r (2008). ¡°?A?y¨¡f al-riw¨¡yah al-raqmiyyah¡± [Spectrum of the Digital Novel]. Middle East Online. Retrieved July 8, 2012, from <http://www.middle-east-online.com/?id=58573>.

Serfaty, Viviane (2004). The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs. Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi. Pp.

Sorapure, Madeleine (2003). ¡°Screening Moments, Scrolling Lives: Diary Writing on the Web¡±. Biography, 26 (1), 1-23.

Turkle, Sherry (1995). Life on The Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade. Pp.

Walker, Jill (2005). ¡°Blog¡±. In D. Herman (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, New York: Routledge, 45. Retrieved 3 December, 2011, from: <http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/blog_theorising/final_version_of_weblog_definition.html>.

Choose one book from the followings:

Novels/Memoirs:

- Raj¨¡? ?Abdall¨¡h al-?¨¡ni?, Ban¨¡t al-Riy¨¡?. Beirut & London: Saqi, 2005 [and later editions]

Girls of Riyadh / Rajaa Alsanea ; translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. New York : Penguin Press, 2007.

Jentene fra Riyadh / Rajaa Alsanea ; oversatt av Anne Aabakken. Oslo : Versal, 2007.

- ?Ibrah¨©m ?Abd al-Ma?¨©d, F¨© Kulli ?usbu? yawm gum?ah, al-Qahirah, D¨¡r al-mi?riyyah al-lubn¨¡niyyah, 2009.

- Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2.0, New York,  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 

- Bass¨¡m, Ri?¨¡b (2008). ?Aruzz bil-laban li-?a??ayn [Rice Pudding For Two]. Cairo: D¨¡r al-?ur¨±q.

- ?Abd al-??l, ?¨¡dah (2008).??yzah ?atgawwiz [I want to get married]. Cairo: D¨¡r al-?ur¨±q.

Monographs:

- Walker, Jill (2008). Blogging. Cambridge: Polity.

- Lejeuene, Philippe (2000), Cher Ecran, Paris: Seuil.

- Wheeler, Deborah (2006). The Internet in the Middle East: Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait. Albany: State University of New York Press

- Gonzalez-Quijano, Yves (2012). Arabit¨¦s num¨¦riques: Le printemps du Web arabe. Paris: Actes Sud.

- N¨¡?¨©, ?A?mad (2010). Min al-b¨±st il¨¤ al-Tw¨©t [From posts to tweet]. Cairo: ANHR press.

- Faris, David (2013). Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt, London, I:B: Tauris.