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The Underbelly of Capital in Cairo

Posted onJune 2018August 2020Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesEssaysTagsCinema, Egypt, Poisonous Roses

Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy (Report)

Posted onApril 2018April 2020Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesEssaysTagsAnthropology, Bureaucracy

Don’t tell me what to feel about “our” colonial history

Posted onDecember 2017April 2020Leave a comment

Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in Oxford, published an editorial in The Times on November 30th entitled: “Don’t feel guilty about our colonial history”. His article asks readers to re-evaluate the legacy of colonialism given that its atrocities …

CategoriesEssaysTagsColonialsm, History

Flawed Classics

Posted onDecember 2017April 2020Leave a comment

‘No matter what you do, you should never stop reading. You must always read, read, and read…’ The words of an influential mentor still ring true years later. I have been afforded the opportunity to live up to his counsel …

CategoriesEssaysTagsAnthropology, Classics, Colonialism

The page 99 test

Posted onMay 2017May 2020Leave a comment

My thesis is not about the link between cinema and car mechanics in Egypt, but this is what I discuss on page 99. There is still a sense in which this link touches on a core intellectual contribution that I …

CategoriesEssaysTagsCinema, Egypt, Labor

That’s the Revolution??!

Posted onDecember 2013April 2020Leave a comment

I have been to Cairo twice since the Revolution in 2011. I have a car, but I cannot drive. Truth be told, I do not know how to drive. But even if I did, I would never drive in Cairo. …

CategoriesEssaysTagsEgypt, Revolution, Taxis

On Violent Protest

Posted onMay 2013April 2020Leave a comment

When I took to review OLR #3, which was published following the Tories’ 2010 cuts in culture and education, I only had a faint idea about what circumstances led to the cuts, what devastating effects they could have, and what …

CategoriesEssaysTagsProtest, Students, Violence

Representing Tahrir Square

Posted onDecember 2012April 2020Leave a comment

We will reflect on the location of Tahrir Square in representations of the Egyptian revolution. In discussing “representations”, we are not adopting a mistakenly vague formulation. Our predicament is to grasp reiterated presentations of the Egyptian revolution, shared by different …

CategoriesEssaysTagsEgypt, Media, Revolution

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