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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …