The remains of eyes and ears evoke a strong metaphor in a city haunted by constant state surveillance.

Egypt has long been dubbed the “Hollywood” of the Middle East. But with heightened state-imposed restrictions and...

How does the Egyptian regime make the mass wave of repression and violence justifiable?

Sisi has re-positioned Egypt to play host to major regional and international gatherings to legitimize his...

The EU will continue to provide material and political support to the Egyptian regime, as long as it serves its goals.

An attempt to remember, and cope with a trauma that pervades the lives of millions of Egyptians.

In today’s Egypt, millions are silent, nevertheless, they still remember.

There is a dynamic relationship between authoritarianism and resistance, whereby authoritarianism is never absolute,...

The constant state of denial that is a feature of the urban middle class and the regime is a necessity to maintain a...

The consequences of living this sort of double-life go far beyond family disagreements.

How can the work and thought of Antonio Gramsci help us make sense of the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath? Is...

How can we ethnographically ground postmodern interest in human-animal relations?

The real trouble with Egypt is that it’s a place where hope never lives, but never truly dies. العربية

The micro-level responses, and the individual and local acts of agency still reaffirm Egypt’s longstanding tradition...

Salah is a hero of disruption, a political voice without talking politics.

The topic of education fits neatly into the orientalist middle class rhetoric about the poor, ignoring its role as...

Art achieves its highest purpose when it questions the structures of power in a society. A goal that "Big Brother",...

Egypt will at some point explode in everyone's faces. The question is when, how and most of all, at what cost. How...

By the very nature of their positions, authoritarian leaders project extreme insecurity, as their legitimacy is not...

Are communities that are not directly political more effective today? More capable of resisting repression and able...