Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa. Born of the contributors’ research on dissidence and state co-option in a variety of artistic and creative fields, the volume’s core themes reflect the notion that the recent Arab uprisings did not appear i...

A groundbreaking analysis of the cultural afterlives of mass utopia in Cuba and Egypt.Utopia Incarnate maps a shared mass utopian discourse of plenty in Cuba and Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century. Taking a comparative, "gastrocritical" approach, Eman Shaban Morsi traces the centrality of tropes of meat, as a literal and figurative embodiment of the contradictions of modernization, in plays, songs, poems, political speeches, cartoons, and fi...