Female Activism and Leadership through Social Media in Egypt during the Arab Spring: Nawara Negm’s Blog

Samar Al-Barghouthi

doi:10.1558/cis.34856

Authors

Samar Al-Barghouthi Royal University for Women at the Kingdom of Bahrain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/cis.34856

Keywords:

Nawara Negm, blogging, Egypt, the Arab Spring, female activists

Abstract

This article provides a detailed analysis of the blog of an Egyptian female activist, Nawara Negm, during the critical period of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. The analysis presents the contents of the blog thematically, through identifying strategies and values and in terms of the author’s shifting terminology by undertaking a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Negm’s changing lexicon. The intersection of gender, nationalism, political activism, and Islam make this individual and her blog important examples of new spaces for the female voice in Arab Muslim contexts.

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Nawara Negm’s Blog (Archived)

November 2, 2010. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-01T23:05:00%2B02:00&max-results=20

November 25, 2010. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-24T14:44:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true

December 16, 2010. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-12-16T13:00:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true

January 2, 2011. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-01T20:24:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true

January 9, 2011 http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-08T20:55:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true

January 16, 2011. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-11T12:57:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true

January 17, 2011. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-16T21:57:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true

January 25, 2011. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-24T15:13:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true

February 6, 2011. http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-02-06T20:32:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&reverse-paginate=true