Walter Tice Armbrust (Princeton University)

Submitted: 1 May 1995 (rev. 9 October 1996)
 
Walter Tice Armbrust) 
Visitin Fellow
Transregional Institute                             
Center for International Studies
Princeton University
Bendheim Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1022
USA

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Email:  armbrust@wws.princeton.edu

    The role of mediated expressive culture in creating Egyptian national
identity; Egyptian modernism; the meaning (or relevance) of postmodernity
in Middle Eastern societies.  Dissertation: Mass Culture and Modernism in
Egypt This has recently been published by Cambridge University Press, 1996
and examines the construction of modernity and nationalism in Egypt
through a variety of media, including cinema, television, popular music on
cassettes and print media.  Currently I am guest editing a special issue
on the Middle East of the journal Visual Anthropology.  My next project
will be a cultural history of the Egyptian cinema.

    Key words: popular culture in Egypt; cinema; television; popular
music; theater;  modernity;  modernism; nationalism; mass media;
anthropology;  visual anthropology;  Arabic; Arab Middle East; twentieth
century;  cultural studies