Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations (page ix)
- Note on Transliteration (page xiii)
- Preface (page xv)
- Acknowledgments (page xix)
- Introduction: Cultural Politics and Genealogies of the Modern in the Postcolony (page 1)
- Amina Mansur: The Map of Love (page 37)
- 1 Becoming an Egyptian Artist: "Freethinking" in the Mainstream (page 44)
- Muhammad Mukhtar, Al-Ginubi: Season of Migration to the North (page 81)
- 2 Cultural Authenticity, Artistic Personhood, and Frames of Evaluation (page 88)
- Muhamma 'Abla: Nile Sparrows (page 131)
- 3 Freedom of Talk: Cultural Policy and the Transforming State (page 137)
- Mustafa al-Razzaz: Book of Revelations (page 175)
- 4 Cultivating Civilized Publics (page 182)
- Gazibiyya Sirri-The Search: Personal Papers (page 216)
- 5 Collecting a Nation, Displaying (a) Culture (page 225)
- 'Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar: I Say to You (page 268)
- 6 Art and Culture Between Empire and Sovereignty (page 275)
- Raghib 'Ayad: Return of the Spirit (page 315)
- Final Interlocutions (page 321)
- Notes (page 329)
- References (page 355)
- Index (page 371)