- List of Illustrations*
- I. In the Name of the People
- The People Want
- The Dictator’s Two Bodies
- Creative Insurgency
- II. Burning Man
- Protest Suicide
- Viral Pain
- The Defender
- A Bad Rap
- Down and Out in Tunis
- Loaves of Contention
- A Better Future
- III. Laughing Cow
- Pharaoh’s Health
- A Digital Body Politic
- Living Martyr
- Funny Men
- Laughing Cow
- The Poodle and the Bear
- The Lion and the Eagle
- The Dictator’s Tear
- IV. Puppets and Masters
- An Eye for an Eye?
- The Upper Hand
- Sprayman
- Stencil Standstill
- Top Goon
- Giving Bashar the Finger
- In Sickness and in Health
- V. Virgins and Vixens
- The Naked Blogger of Cairo
- The Aesthetics of Disrobement
- Dutiful Daughter
- Blue Bra Girl
- Vigilance and Virulence
- Sextremism and Islamophobia
- The Dilemma of the Liberals
- Abstract Bodies?
- VI. Requiem for a Revolution
- Concept Pop?
- The Creative-Curatorial-Corporate Complex
- The Daesh Stain
- Another Pharaoh?
- The Specter of Death
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations
- Fig. 1 Pinocchio in TV Screen, stencil, Cairo, 2011
- Fig. 2 Baguette Man, photo, Tunis, 2011
- Fig. 3 Martyr-Fish-Fly, mural by Ammar Abo Bakr, Luxor, 2013
- Fig. 4 This Is Civil Disobedience, Asha‘b Assoury ‘Aref Tareqoh, undated
- Fig. 5 The King of the Jungle Rides a Tank, stencil, Beirut, 2011
- Fig. 6 The Sectarian System, stencil, Beirut, 2011
- Fig. 7 A Rebel’s Diary (screen grab), blog, 2011
- Fig. 8 Aliaa vs. Samira, mural/stencils by Ammar Abo Bakr, Luxor, 2011
- Fig. 9 Blue Bra Girl against the System, stencil, Beirut, 2011
- Fig. 10 Qahera, webcomic by Deena Mohamed, 2013