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
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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
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
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 …
Methodological Challenges in Studying the Egyptian Film Industry
This paper was given at a roundtable on methodological issues in Middle Eastern media studies at the 2018 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference in Toronto
The page 99 test
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 …
Technology and Anticipation in Egyptian Film Production
This paper was given at the 2017 Canadian Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (CASCA) and International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) joint meeting at the University of Ottawa
State Control over Film Production in Egypt
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2017) “State Control over Film Production in Egypt” Arab Media & Society, 23 http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=987
The Perennial “Crisis” of the Egyptian Film Industry
This paper was given at the “Rethinking Media through the Middle East” conference organized at the American University in Beirut on January 12th-14th, 2017