Egyptian Popular Culture Slow To Progress After Mubarak

“When Mubarak fell in February 2011, artists like Salama hoped that stories that had long been kept under wraps could now blossom and a citizenry that had been lapping up fluff might turn to more substantive fare. But as with many of the country’s political changes these shifts have happened unevenly as each entertainment realm has made progress at its own, sometimes turtle-like pace.”

Nostalgia On Schedule: ‘The Golden Forty-Year Rule’

“So it seems time to pronounce a rule about American popular culture: the Golden Forty-Year Rule. The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to have happened, in the decade between forty and fifty years past. (And the particular force of nostalgia, one should bear in mind, is not simply that it is a good setting for a story but that it is a good setting for you.)”