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 Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (Review)
Hafez, Sherine and Susan Slyomovics, eds. 2013. Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 414 pp. Pb.: $26.52. ISBN-10: 025300753 Based on a 2010 conference in the Center for Near Eastern studies in UCLA, …
The Incorporation of Peirce in Deleuze’s Cinema
This paper was presented at the Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress organized at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell on July 16th-19th, 2014
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. …
The Logical Goodness of Abduction in C. S. Peirce’s Thought
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2013) “The Logical Goodness of Abduction in C.S. Peirce’s Thought” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 49 (2), 157-177
On Violent Protest
When I took to review OLR #3, which was published following the Tories’ 2010 cuts in culture and education, I only had a faint idea about what circumstances led to the cuts, what devastating effects they could have, and what …
Digital Ethnography (Review)
NATALIE UNDERBERG & ELAYNE ZORN. Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013, 109 p. While digital media attract increasing attention in anthropology (see Miller & Horst’s recent volume, Digital Anthropology), few writings examine in …
What Becomes of Bodies on Film?
Cite as: Chihab El Khachab (2013) “What Becomes of Bodies on Film?”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 30 (2), 173-189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2012.718964