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In “The Sound of the Revolution,” Hatem N. Akil accounts for scenes and chants at Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 25 January Egyptian revolution as tools for discovering a mix of technology, language, and rebellion that could be characterized as hybrid, plural, and present. At the center of these states lies the human body as subject to public peril. Akil finds that although a certain hybridity of action and representation was clearly manifested at Tahrir Square, the revolution failed to move towards actualization of plurality and hybridity in its social and ideological space beyond Tahrir Square.
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Akil, H.N. (2016). The Sound of the Revolution. In: The Visual Divide between Islam and the West. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56582-2_3
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