The high art unites us. Staging unity through honoring in Cairo’s literary clubs
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2025.2488081" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2025.2488081</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2025.2488081" target="_blank" >10.1080/19436149.2025.2488081</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
čeština
Original language name
The high art unites us. Staging unity through honoring in Cairo’s literary clubs
Original language description
Focusing on a story of collaboration and division among writers in a Cairo literary club after 2013, this article examines revolutionary endings through the lens of urban literary networks. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Cairo’s literary clubs from 2016 to 2023, this study draws attention to the ritual of takrīm, or honoring, and its capacity to shield the club from the dominant anti-Muslim Brotherhood discourse that intensified after the organization’s repression in 2013. Through an examination of takrīm as a form of staging and using Andrew Shryock’s framework of guests and hosts, this study proposes viewing literary clubs as spaces set apart from post-revolutionary ‘normality’. However, the consensus around the ritual of honoring is fragile, as the enduring effects of the revolution – such as partisan allegiances, traumatic memories, and lingering suspicions – threaten to resurface.
Czech name
The high art unites us. Staging unity through honoring in Cairo’s literary clubs
Czech description
Focusing on a story of collaboration and division among writers in a Cairo literary club after 2013, this article examines revolutionary endings through the lens of urban literary networks. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Cairo’s literary clubs from 2016 to 2023, this study draws attention to the ritual of takrīm, or honoring, and its capacity to shield the club from the dominant anti-Muslim Brotherhood discourse that intensified after the organization’s repression in 2013. Through an examination of takrīm as a form of staging and using Andrew Shryock’s framework of guests and hosts, this study proposes viewing literary clubs as spaces set apart from post-revolutionary ‘normality’. However, the consensus around the ritual of honoring is fragile, as the enduring effects of the revolution – such as partisan allegiances, traumatic memories, and lingering suspicions – threaten to resurface.
Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Middle East Critique
ISSN
1943-6149
e-ISSN
1943-6157
Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2025
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
447-462
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105003872899