Jan Nowak

I am a second-year in the MPhil International Relations program at St Antony’s College. I am a Fellow at the University Consortium, and, together with my colleague Alexander Beck, I serve as Course Representative for my graduate cohort. My primary area of interest is Russia and Eastern Europe. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the role that ideas play in establishing conceptual categories through which “politics” is enacted.

The Code of Karam: How Literature Shapes Post-Revolutionary Social Spaces in Cairo

In this talk, I will present my upcoming book project on the role of literary practices in recreating spaces of sociability and solidarity in post-revolutionary Cairo. Over the past two decades, Egypt’s literary worlds have been reconfigured by two major phenomena. First, the digital disruption of publishing since the mid-2000s has expanded access to literary authorship, allowing many new writers to enter the market.
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