Remediation and Translation in Egyptian Digital Caricatures
This paper was presented at the “New Geographies of Visual Satire” conference organized in Christ Church (University of Oxford) on June 15th, 2018
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 …
Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2018) “Two Questions to Marxist Anthropology” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 16 (2), 656-665 https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.983
Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy (Report)
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 …
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
Made in Egypt (Review)
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, …
Don’t tell me what to feel about “our” colonial history
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 …
Flawed Classics
‘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 …
Far Afield (Review)
VINCENT DEBAENE. Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature (trans. Justin Izzo). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, xv, 398 pp.ISBN 9780226107066 Far Afield traces the interactions between anthropological writing and literature in France from the end of the …
Compressing Scales: Characters and Situations in Egyptian Internet Humor
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2017) “Compressing Scales: Characters and Situations in Egyptian Internet Humor”. Middle East Critique 26 (4): 331-353