Gabriele Cosentino
Gabriele Cosentino is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at The American University in Cairo. He holds a doctorate in media, culture and communication from New York University. He has published several articles on digital media, political communication and cultural globalization in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. His most recent books are “Social Media and the Post-Truth World Order” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and “The Infodemic: Disinformation, Geopolitics and the Covid-19 Pandemic” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).
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What the Stabbing of a Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Tells Us About Power in Egypt
The attempted assassination of the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz is remembered as a story of Islamist extremism. Yet the original controversy sparked by his work, particularly “Children of the Alley,” was more to do with his powerful political vision than his views on religion.