Acknowledgments Introduction: Egyptian Blogs Between Fiction and Autobiography 1. Arabic Blogging: Beyond the "New" and "Political" 2. Trials of Imagination 3. Autofiction: an explanation of the term 4. Autofiction in Arabic Literature 5. Autofiction and Internet writing 6. Methodology 7. Outline of the book Chapter 1: Arabic Literature Goes Digital 1.
Arabic Literature 1.0 2. Blogging in Egypt/Arab World 3. Blogging the Self in the Egyptian Blogosphere 4. Arabic Literature Between the Online and the Offline Chapter 2: The Paratext of Egyptian Blogs 1. Thresholds of Interpretations 2. Case Studies Wassi' Khayalak (Widen your Imagination) by Ahmed Naji Ma Bada Li (What seemed to me) by Amr Ezzat Tanatif Ma'at (Ma3t's Bits and Pieces) by Mona Seif Yawmiyyat Imra'a Mithliyya (Diary of a Gay Woman) by Emraamethlya Al-Kanaba al-Hamra (The Red Sofa) by Bilal Husni Yawmiyyat 'Anis (The Diary of a Spinster) by Abeer Soliman 3. The Egyptian Bloggers 4.
It ain't me. Onymity and Pseudonymity 5. What's in a Title 6. The Pursuit of an Original Form Chapter 3: Mixed Arabic as a Subversive Literary Style 1. The Reception of (Book-)Blogs 2. The Influence of Diglossia on Arabic Literature 3. Strangers in Their Own Land 4. Mixed Arabic as a Subversive Literary Language 5.
Becoming Major? Chapter 4: When Writers Activate Readers 1. The Autofictional Blog: an Interactive Adab (adab tafa'uli) 2. The Blurred Identity of the Author/Main character Pseudonyms Self-conscious Narrator. Hoaxes (Ishtighalat) 3. Multimedial Open Texts 4. Links 5. Ongoing narration 6. Readers as Gatekeepers Chapter 5: Bytes of Freedom: Fictionalized Bodies in the Egyptian Blogosphere 1.
The Quest for Truth and Imagination 2. Sexual Harrassment 3. Love and Sexuality 4. Body Ailments 5. Animal Bodies 6. Animated Objects 7. Niceness 8. Switch on, log in, drop out.
The Family Religion The "Family of Literature" 8. Conclusion: The Personal is Political Chapter 6: Blogging a Revolution: From Utopia to Dystopia 1. From the Blogosphere to Tahrir square Imagining a Revolution The 25th January Revolution: The Dream Comes True. 2. The Aftermath of the 25th January Revolution: a Demise of Blogging? 3. From the Blog to the (Dystopic) Novel Istikhdam al-Haya by Ahmed Naji. Bawlu (Paulo, 2016) by Youssef Rakha Conclusion List of Works Cited.