Documenting a contested memory: Symbols in the changing city space of Cairo

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 234-254

  Awad, Sarah H ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Egypt; reconstructive remembering; revolution; street art; urban space

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019901772     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: 14617056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X17695760     Document Type: Article

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