Consequences of Postmodernism and Egyptian Post-Revolution Youth Culture: An Anthropological Study

This study tries to link the view of the youth who witnessed the uprise of the revolutions of 2011 and 2013 to the Postmodernist culture.  Thus, the aim of the study is to know how the Egyptian youth have reacted to post-revolution culture and to what extent they have submitted to the characteristics of Postmodernism or whether they have trespassed this step to acquire a new culture.
The researcher applied the anthropological method with the application of case study and everyday life discourse methods with their tools which are beneficial and suitable for the research.  Postmodernist culture is measured in accordance to everyday life discourse through the representative words that youth utter, and their reactions and narrations.  The researcher also examined mass media caricatures, and informants' words and stories that reflect everyday life culture.
The researcher followed a number of methodological procedures starting by literature review that deals with modernism and its consquences.  Observing and living in most everyday life experiences with youth and reading articles and caricatures in newspapers and mass media helped the researcher to reach the charisticatics of this period.  The main informants of the study were chosen to have a big network of relations with youth from their sons, daughters and their acquaintances.  Observing and sharing graduate students in everyday life discourse enabled the researcher to form several group and indepth interviews, as they have the ability to expess themselves and so successfully represent their culture.  Consequently, the researcher analysed the fieldwork data of case studies and various interviews in the light of Postmodernist theoretical perspective.

The most important conclusions of the research are that Egyptian youth behavior is colored by postmodernist chaos before 25 January revolution.  Even reaching "Truth" as youth puts it is now far reaching, as they believe that history is a lie that is forged.  However, they believe in God as the only finite Truth, and that The Holy Books carry the truth to us, but religious preachers are the ones who are to blaim as their preachings are not suitable for the age.  Besides, objectification of women, late capitalism and technology pessimism, which appeared in postmodernism with its roots in modernism, accelerated and reached their utmost degree in this age.  Finally, the researcher reached the conclusion that Egyptian youth culture wavers between modernism and postmodernism and creates a new culture that we might call meta-modernism.