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 …
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
Chakravarti, Leila Zaki. (2016). Made in Egypt: Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor. New York: Berghahn Made in Egypt is a rich ethnographic account of shop floor culture in a private garment factory located in Port Said, …
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2017) “Compressing Scales: Characters and Situations in Egyptian Internet Humor”. Middle East Critique 26 (4): 331-353
This paper was given at the 2nd Congress of the GIS (Groupement d’intérêt scientifique) Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans organized at the INALCO (Paris) on July 5th-8th, 2017
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 …
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
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2017) “State Control over Film Production in Egypt” Arab Media & Society, 23 http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=987
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
This paper was presented at the 2016 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting in Boston