Mona Abaza is Professor at the Department of Sociology, American University in Cairo. Her latest books include The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story (American University in Cairo Press, 2013) and Twentieth Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei (American University in Cairo Press, 2011).
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaStrikes, protests and Egyptian nights of curfewA conversation about journalism and research in times of uprising and repression on the fourth anniversary of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe criminal, the victim, the policeman, the judge“I do not know if Carlo Ginzburg would agree, but I came to evaluate fear as a precious tool for fieldwork in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhere we come from“The real problem is a lack of appreciation of history by the general public and their willingness to accept myth as...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMultiple entanglements“My presence in a public space holding a notebook let alone a voice recorder or camera would cause immediate suspicion.”
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthnography in a time of upheaval – Egypt before and after the ‘Arab spring’Even within the narrower parameters of public spaces, debates which might lead to issues around accountability and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSitting on top of Egyptian civilisationGiving birth to a centre for liberal arts in a popular neighborhood of Cairo, which is covered in layers of stories,...