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This collection of essays explores the idea of the efficacy, limitations and future of Cultural Studies as a theoretical and methodological approach to the analysis of recent crisis phenomena in Europe. The volume spans a wide range of topics, including: theoretical and critical approaches to the stability of the EU as a political and economic union of its 28 member states; the (not only) recent flow of refugees into Europe and other countries, and the refugee tragedies off the coast of Lampedusa; the resurgence of far-right, anti-Islam political groups throughout Europe; the negotiation of affect and crisis phenomena in literary texts; and the question of media and refugees. These and other pressing issues are addressed and discussed from a variety of historical, political, pedagogical, gender, media and aesthetic perspectives, as encompassed in Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literatures.

The lecturer tries to predict how far the Arab media will be affected by the overwhelming revolution in space technology and computers in the next century. He scrutinizes the impact of this technology on press, radio and television stations in the Arab world, as well as their impact on individuals, communities, institutions and states. (ECSSR/DÜI-Hns)

Abi Saab, Fares: Southern Mount Lebanon: false democracy in an unsovereign. Nassif, Nicholas: Northern Mount Lebanon: Aramia's prophecy. Douweihy, Shawqi: The North: socio-political structures and the electoral contest. Sleiman, Issam: Beirut: the lack of equality. Krayyem, Hassan: South Lebanon: the same plot on an old stage. Atallah, Antoine: The Biqa': the failure of the Muhafaza experiment. Majed, Ziad: Election infractions and fraud. Al-Khazen, Farid: The prolongation of disorder through the electoral process. Sassine, Fares: The 1992-1996 legislature: the story of stalemate. Bahout, Joseph: A scene after the election battle: new elites and alternative elites. Taqieddine, Sleiman: Challenges to the Parliamentary elections within the Contitutional Court. Messara, Antoine: The role of political parties: marginalization and disequilibrium. Abdo-Qai: Electoral obligations and behavior: civic dimensions and political participation. Helou, Margaret: Women and politics in Lebanon in the 1996 elections. Shawoul, Milhelm: The role of the media. Sader, Dima: Electoral machines: unequal battle and traditional roles. Salem, Paul: Democracy in Lebanon: between politics and the elections of 1996

Social criticism has been a pervasive element in modern Arabic literature since its beginnings. This book is concerned with social criticism in blog narratives against the background of a long tradition of criticizing society through literary expression in the Egyptian national framework. It is also about ways in which the Arabic literary heritage, classical and contemporary, is put to work and recycled in Egyptian Arabic-language blogs. Readers will become aware that a number of the same societal and political problems that have been and still are treated in literature are brought up in Egyptian blogs. While social criticism will be shown to be a common thread in literary expression and blogging in Egypt, a central question is how bloggers use their cultural and literary heritage to advance their goals of changing social and political reality. The bloggers give voice to core problems with which an early blogging generation was and continues to be concerned. Some were discontented with the inability of the government to provide them with the democratic liberties they requested. Others emphasized the necessity to solve the urgent problems of poor governance, corruption and poverty. The book concludes that if the root problems are not addressed and the old order not removed, real change cannot take place. The question is what picture literature and social media including blogs will present to us henceforth: one of a society taking steps towards real change, or one reflecting the status quo with circumscribed individual liberties and lack of social reform