Living in Darkness
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2016) “Living in Darkness: Internet Humour and the Politics of Egypt’s Electricity Infrastructure” Anthropology Today, 32 (4), 21-24 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12268
Tag: Egypt
Three Meanings of “Work” in the Egyptian Film Industry
This paper was presented at the 2016 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference at the University of Milano- Biccoca
Managing Imponderable Problems in Egyptian Film Production
This paper was presented at the 2016 Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) Annual Conference at the University of Durham
Poisonous Roses: Interpreting Sibling Love in Contemporary Cairo
This paper was presented at the “Finding Siblings in the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa” workshop organized at the London School of Economics on June 6th, 2016
Secular Preachers
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2016) “Secular Preachers: Watching Television Pundits in Post-Revolutionary Egypt” Anthropology Now, 8 (1), 117-124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2016.1153938
The Double Role of Media Technologies in Egyptian Film Production
This paper was presented at the 2014 American Ethnological Society (AES) Spring Conference in Boston
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen (Review)
Hazem Kandil. (2012). Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen : Egypt’s Road to Revolution. London: Verso Avec sa civilisation millénaire, sa population généralement homogène et son puissant État central, l’Égypte est souvent conçue comme un monolithe. Or, s’il est d’ordinaire rarement réexaminé, ce monolithe …
That’s the Revolution??!
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. …
Representing Tahrir Square
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 …