Andrew Simon

Feb 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Andrew Simon |Lisa Anderson |Andrew Hanna |Nimah Mazaheri

In This Review In This Review Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern EgyptFirst introduced in the 1960s, cassette tapes quickly outpaced vinyl records as the medium by which spoken words and music were recorded, distributed, and shared. Tapes flooded markets around the world, including Egypt’s, in the 1970s. As Simon shows in a book organized to evoke a cassette—the two halves of the volume are called Side A and Side B—the impact was dramatic and long lasting.