-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaState violence and the illusions of modernity in EgyptThe constant state of denial that is a feature of the urban middle class and the regime is a necessity to maintain a...
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLiving the double life: behind the lies of women's daily lives in EgyptThe consequences of living this sort of double-life go far beyond family disagreements.
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCritical voices in critical times: Peter Mayo on Gramsci, Egypt and critical pedagogyHow can the work and thought of Antonio Gramsci help us make sense of the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath? Is...
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaChallenges of fieldwork in Egypt: changing/challenging theoretical leaningsHow can we ethnographically ground postmodern interest in human-animal relations?
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMo Salah, the revolution and Egypt’s defeatThe real trouble with Egypt is that it’s a place where hope never lives, but never truly dies. العربية
-
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...
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUnhappiness and Mohamed Salah’s EgyptSalah is a hero of disruption, a political voice without talking politics.
-
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...
-
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",...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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,...
-
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...
-
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,...
Latest in "Egypt"
New in our projects
-
Published in: Live discussionsCan US progressives beat back Trumpism?
