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The Way We See It: Poetic-Visual Reciprocity in Egyptian Street Art Since 2011
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Brill
, 2022 , Article)
This article traces the manifestations of the newly adapted artistic form of “calligraffiti,”
or the synthetic braiding of poetry and graffiti on what became known as the “walls of
protest” in post-2011 Egypt. This new ...
“‘Pleading Human’ in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout”
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Routledge
, 2022 , Article)
This paper analyses Paul Beatty’s Booker Prize winning comic novel, The Sellout (2015), as it relates to theories of black posthumanism, as outlined in the work of Alexander Weheliye and Hortense Spillers. In the novel, ...
Theorizing the Performance of Blackness: Relations, Processes, and Possibilities
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Johns Hopkins University Press
, 2022 , Article)
Through a summation of representative critical works that challenge us to think of new ways of imagining performing bodies and racial performance, this essay gestures towards a process-oriented approach for theorizing the ...
McBride, James
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Wiley
, 2022 , Book chapter)
One of the most interesting writers on race to emerge in the last decade of the twentieth century, James McBride (b. 1957) is an African American novelist, memoirist, and jazz musician. His memoir, The Color of Water: A ...
Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the sociolinguistic research which has been and is currently being conducted in Dubai, and has been published in the English language. After providing a discussion of ...
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
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Routledge Handbooks
, 2020 , Book chapter)
This is an introduction to the language and country branding volume. The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropological, and discursive analytical research on ...
“DELIVER AMAZING”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Qatar brands itself as a projected-in-the-future proud cosmopolitan and progressive country ready to host World Cup 2022. The branding practices, whereby this projection takes place, are the focus of Irene Theodoropoulou’s ...
Social Media Branding : The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The chapter aims at contributing to the sociolinguistic theorization of branding through a word-of-mouth marketing lens by delving into the ways whereby Mykonos is branded on Facebook. Place branding is investigated in the ...
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book)
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on various sociolinguistic, semiotic, anthropological and discursive analytical ...
West Bay Business District in Doha, State of Qatar: Envisioning a Vibrant Transit-Oriented Development
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
In recent decades, Doha, the capital of Qatar, has experienced a large-scale transformation
due to globalization and rapid economic growth. Recently, these changes have led to a focus on
infrastructural development and ...