ABSTRACT
Globalization has accelerated modernization in material aspects throughout the world. It has revamped the relations among developing and developed nations as well as rich and poor ones. The processes of globalization have led to the migration of broad segments of the population in Egypt and elsewhere in the non-oil rich parts of the Arab world. This mobilization of human and material resources has dissolved traditional boundaries dividing nations. Advanced technology, new media, and information are harnessed through transnational corporations to promote the flow of labor, commodities, and information. By permeating all aspects of social life, globalization has profoundly impacted cultural revision on the national level. In this chapter, I identify continuities and disjunctions in the culture of Egypt resulting from globalization and the consequent contradictions.
