Writing the 2011 Arab Uprisings

Visions and Realities

Authors

  • Rita Sakr University of Kent

Abstract

This essay briefly examines some of the myths and realities about agency in the revolutionary Arab republic of letters across which writers envisioned, fueled and shaped the cultural and political imaginary of the 2011 uprisings across the Arab world. These writers (in this essay I focus on novelists) contributed to the increasingly expanding world of ‘literature and revolution’ as they re-imagined the past, present and future of their nations through a literary rendering of political geographies marked by oppression, human rights abuses, growing distrust and rising dissent.

Author Biography

  • Rita Sakr, University of Kent

    Rita Sakr is a Research Associate at the University of Kent. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (Continuum, 2011). She has published on Middle-Eastern studies, migrant writings, post-conflict literatures and James Joyce. With Finn Fordham, she is co-editor of James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel (Rodopi, 2011); and with Caroline Rooney, she coedited The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Journalism, and Art: Transnational Responses to the 1982 Siege of Beirut (Routledge, 2013). Sakr’s Anticipating the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies is forthcoming.

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2012): Revolution

Section

Main Section

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How to Cite

Sakr, R. (2026). Writing the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Visions and Realities. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 25(2), 9-19. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27430