Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Series Editor’s Foreword vii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Note on Transliteration and Translation xiii
7. Introduction: Egyptian Blogs Between Fiction and Autobiography 1
8. 1 Arabic Literature Goes Digital 28
9. 2 The Paratext of Egyptian Blogs 48
10. 3 Mixed Arabic as a Subversive Literary Style 94
11. 4 When Writers Activate Readers 123
12. 5 Bytes of Freedom: Fictionalised Bodies in the Egyptian Blogosphere 150
13. 6 Blogging a Revolution: From Utopia to Dystopia 190
14. Conclusion: A New Literary Genre and a Social Uprising 215
15. Works Cited 221
16. Index 242