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 …
Les caractères nationaux dans la caricature numérique égyptienne
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
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