The Egyptian Film Industry: Labor, Technology, Mediation
This paper was given as an invited talk to the Film, Media, and Culture research group at the University of Kent (UK) on February 19th, 2020
Notes à propos de la difficulté d’étudier les archives de l’État
This paper was given at the Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ) in Cairo on September 24th, 2019.
The Sobky Recipe and the Struggle over “the Popular” in Egypt
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2019) “The Sobky Recipe and the Struggle over ‘The Popular’ in Egypt.” Arab Studies Journal 27, no. 1: 34-61
A Bureaucracy without Bureaucrats: Inside the Egyptian Governmental Sector
This paper was given at the “Governance and Processes of Bureaucratization” workshop co-organized by Dr Dominik Müller and Prof Dr Ursula Rao at the University of Leipzig (Germany) on January 31st, 2019.
Reification and Recognition in Egyptian Film Production
This paper was presented at the 2018 Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) Annual Conference at the University of Oxford
What is Egyptian about Egyptian Cinema?
This paper was presented at the 2018 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Annual Conference in King’s College, London
Remediation and Translation in Egyptian Digital Caricatures
This paper was presented at the “New Geographies of Visual Satire” conference organized in Christ Church (University of Oxford) on June 15th, 2018
The Underbelly of Capital in Cairo
Poisonous Roses (Ward Masmum) is an Egyptian film that premiered at the 2018 International Rotterdam Film Festival. A milestone in Egyptian cinema after the 2011 Revolution, the film is a stunning look into the working-class world of the tanneries in …
Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2018) “Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 16 (2), 656-665 https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.983
Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy (Report)
The study of bureaucracy has become a standard prerogative of English-language anthropology in recent years. Long gone are the days when bureaucracy was considered the exclusive realm of political scientists and sociologists, in an intellectual division of labour where anthropology …