1. Egyptian Youth in Urban and Virtual Spaces Mark Allen Peterson Miami University

2. Fieldwork in Egypt 1998-2002, 2005, 2010

3. What I have to say today is based on anthropology at a distance But informed by Prior fieldwork Discussions with friends in Egypt Social media

4. US EDITION MIDDLE EAST EDITION

5. Youth

6. Youth is… A life stage A cultural construction

10. Cosmopolitans The cosmopolitan class (Peterson 2011) The young, educated, underemployed young brothers in cyberspace (Lynch 2007)

11. New Youth Movements 1. New and independent 2. Flexible, decentralized structured and fluid leadership. 3. The movements are trans- ideological. 4. Drew in large numbers of participants who had never before engaged in public political acts. 5. Depend to a great extent on social media for communication. From Shehata 2011.

12. Virtual Spaces

14. Overcoming isolation Bringing people together Trying out identities

17. Urban Spaces

18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKjMiKqVrc&feature= player_embedded Creativity

22. Liminality

23. Antistructure

24. Communitas