Print media expansion enabled nationalist discourse in Egypt and the Levant.
Evidence
More specifically, Albert Hourani has shown that westernization worked in the Middle East through the expansion of secularized schools—from pri- mary levels to highly specialized professional institutions—and books, peri- odicals, and newspapers that eventually came to be called a cultural awak- ening, or nahda, in the Levant and Egypt. This awakening created new arenas in which the most sensitive issues of the time could be discussed among a small but increasingly literate audience, setting the stage for nationalist discourse as print media expanded. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 78
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Echoes the broader literature on print capitalism and nationalism (Anderson) and on communication shaping culture.
- DEFINE: Defines the nahda (cultural awakening) as secular schooling and expanding print media.
Related
- The nahda’s print expansion created public arenas enabling Egyptian nationalist discourse (similarity 0.95)
- Westernization entered the Middle East chiefly through secular schools and print media. (similarity 0.91)
- Print capitalism’s sacral-vernacular split enabled nationalist imagination (similarity 0.79)
- Printing permanently canonized colonial distortions of non-European peoples (similarity 0.79)