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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">17 Mar 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span name="randa aboubakr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">randa aboubakr</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> <</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:randaaboubakr@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">randaaboubakr@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Digital Forum for the Study of Popular Culture</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear Colleague,<br><br>We are happy to announce the launching of Forum for the Study of Popular Culture (FSPC), a website aiming to promoteresearch in the field of popular culture, regionally and internationally. Below is an excerpt from About Us:<br>
<br>"The massive political upheavals witnessed not only throughout the Arab region, but also in various parts of the world for the past few years have been strongly allied with widespread and dynamic social and cultural transformations. These transformations, as is evident, engage untraditional actors who operate rather independently of state institutions, and who are intent on reclaiming both the public space and their own means of representation, which authoritarian regimes had long confiscated.<br>
One side of this representation is reflected in the field of popular cultural practices, and is manifest in the outpouring of popular and alternative cultural and artistic production, such as citizen journalism, graffiti, community music, street cinema, digital forms of expression, to name only a few. This forum aims at promoting research in the field of popular culture regionally and internationally. For this end, it seeks to create a network that would facilitate the exchange of expertise among scholars in the field of popular culture, and to encourage and sponsor young researchers from Egypt and the Arab region who opt for studying this under-researched field."<br>
<br>For more details, we are inviting you to view the Forum's website at<br><br><a href="http://www.popular-culture.org" target="_blank">www.popular-culture.org</a><br><br>and to communicating with us at this e-mail address:<br>
<br><a href="mailto:fspc@popular-culture.org" target="_blank">fspc@popular-culture.org</a><br>
<br>We look forward to hearing from you, and to collaborating with you on meaningful and rewarding research.<br><br>Cordially,<br><br>Randa Aboubakr (Forum Coordinator)<br>Nihal Nour (Forum Assistant Coordinator)<br>----------------------------<br>
Randa Aboubakr<br>Professor of English and Comparative Literature<br>Faculty of Arts- Department of English<br>Cairo University<br>Orman<br>Giza- 12613<br>Egypt<br>Work Tel.: <a href="tel:%28%2B202%29%203567-%202536" value="+20235672536" target="_blank">(+202) 3567- 2536</a><br>
Priv. Cell.: <a href="tel:%28%2B2%29%200122%20344%201334" value="+201223441334" target="_blank">(+2) 0122 344 1334</a><br>
E.mail: <a href="mailto:randaaboubakr@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">randaaboubakr@yahoo.co.uk</a><br><a href="http://cairo.academia.edu/RandaAboubakr" target="_blank">http://cairo.academia.edu/RandaAboubakr</a><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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