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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaState violence and the illusions of modernity in Egypt
The constant state of denial that is a feature of the urban middle class and the regime is a necessity to maintain a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLiving the double life: behind the lies of women's daily lives in Egypt
The consequences of living this sort of double-life go far beyond family disagreements.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCritical voices in critical times: Peter Mayo on Gramsci, Egypt and critical pedagogy
How can the work and thought of Antonio Gramsci help us make sense of the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath? Is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaChallenges of fieldwork in Egypt: changing/challenging theoretical leanings
How can we ethnographically ground postmodern interest in human-animal relations?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMo Salah, the revolution and Egypt’s defeat
The real trouble with Egypt is that it’s a place where hope never lives, but never truly dies. العربية
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe president’s wedding: micro-politics of mass mobilisation in Egypt’s 2018 election
The 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 Egypt
Salah is a hero of disruption, a political voice without talking politics.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEducation and orientalist discourse
The 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 subversion
Art 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 explode
Egypt 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 Egypt
Focusing 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 imagination
A 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 residences
Fearful 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 situation
For 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 lessons
Since 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-Massry
On 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 opposition
In 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 bottle
Dictators will sleep better now that Gene Sharp has left. But as long as people are not afraid of dictatorships,...