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Popular Culture of Egypt page

Recent production of popular culture in Egypt is framed by civil rights controversy, economic instability, and a generation's developing relationship with freedom of speech. With a median age of 25 and 49.9% of the population 24 years of age or younger, Egypt's population is one of the most youthful in the world; it is also one of the most educated. Political conflict brought Egypt's youth activism to the international stage with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, or the January 25th Revolution, an ongoing occupational movement whose core issues include censorship, state-of-emergency laws, and police brutality. This centralization of political unrest around freedom of speech and the language of democracy culminated with the June 30th Revolution, among the largest protests in world history; that millions of civilians gathered in 2013 to assert the people's voice can largely be attributed to Egypt's producers of digital and social media. This generation of tech-savvy activists contextualizes a growing body of new and countercultural forms of self-expression in popular culture, such as the musical genre Mahraganat, as well as slang that shapes the discourse of the revolution. Similarly, the revolution has made activism and popular culture inseparable from social media as a means of expression and accessibility in the face of continuing political censorship.

The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 has also inspired popular culture internationally.

Environmental activism

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