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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe president’s wedding: micro-politics of mass mobilisation in Egypt’s 2018 electionThe micro-level responses, and the individual and local acts of agency still reaffirm Egypt’s longstanding tradition...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUnhappiness and Mohamed Salah’s EgyptSalah is a hero of disruption, a political voice without talking politics.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEducation and orientalist discourseThe topic of education fits neatly into the orientalist middle class rhetoric about the poor, ignoring its role as...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia"Big Brother": the art of subversionArt achieves its highest purpose when it questions the structures of power in a society. A goal that "Big Brother",...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt's political system is a pressure cooker: it will explodeEgypt will at some point explode in everyone's faces. The question is when, how and most of all, at what cost. How...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy do authoritarian regimes love elections?By the very nature of their positions, authoritarian leaders project extreme insecurity, as their legitimacy is not...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe return of the Ultras Ahlawy?Are communities that are not directly political more effective today? More capable of resisting repression and able...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPower and the divine: self-repression in EgyptFocusing on the afterlife, the rewards of heaven for the just and hell for the unjust, keeps the masses in check and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Egypt functions in the Moroccan imaginationA journey through Morocco as an Egyptian. Amro Ali shares his observations and insights from common spaces of discussions.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLights – Camera – Action! ‘below the stairs’ soap opera production in middle class Cairo residencesFearful of a relentless downward slide, Cairo’s middle classes generate income by renting out their private...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaElections and the Egyptian movement of 2011: thinking with Alain Badiou about the current situationFor French philosopher Alain Badiou, elections pose a more important question for the movement in Egypt beyond the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCounter-terrorism: new UK strategy must learn obvious lessonsSince 2001, Britain has compromised its passion for the rights of people in the name of counter-terrorism, thereby...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“From the revolution, we learned to be united”: leaving politics behind. An interview with Mahienour el-MassryOn the occasion of the anniversary of the eighteen days’ occupation of Tahrir Square, beginning 25 January 2011,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSisi’s coronation and the Egyptian oppositionIn an attempt to centralize power, the regime is in the process of creating one unified enemy, an alliance between...
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Published in: HomeGene Sharp: freedom is out of the bottleDictators will sleep better now that Gene Sharp has left. But as long as people are not afraid of dictatorships,...
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Published in: HomeWhat remains of democracy? Egypt, Italy and ‘the lesser evil’ after Giulio RegeniA thesis circulating for some time seeks the secret of the 28-year-old's death, not in the Al-Sisi regime, but for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRemembering against the tide: Giulio Regeni and the transnational horizons of memoryTwo years after the murder of Giulio Regeni, the call for truth and justice has yet to be answered.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYou've kept your power, Arab rulers, but at what cost?Let us never forget that those who make peaceful uprisings impossible will eventually make violent revolution irresistible.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlain Badiou on the Egyptian revolution: questions of the movement and its vision [video]How can the Egyptian revolution reveal clues and unlock ideas about the changing nature of politics and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: character assassination as a weaponThe Egyptian regime has been resorting to defamation campaigns to target its opponents as a tactic to silence and...
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