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Making Sense of the Politics of the Egyptian Revolution in and through Popular Culture
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8 This project, entitled “Politics and Popular Culture: Contested Narratives of the 25 January 2011 Revolution and its Aftermath,” was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (no. AH/N004353/1) and was conducted by Nicola Pratt, Dalia Mostafa, Dina Rezk, and Sara Salem. The project website can be found at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/researchcentres/cpd/popularcultureegypt/. An online archive based on the project called “Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution” can be found at https://egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk/.
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