Defying defeat
Political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s collection of writings are a powerful and evocative reminder that democracy in Egypt remains a bleak prospect.
Tahrir Square
The Unruly Rush of the City
Julie Mehretu's canvases depict a public zone dichotomous to that of their own surrounding, brimming with a sense of the life of a city which we can never really know or measure, whose politics is alive but oddly incubated.
Egyptian women won’t be blamed for sexual assaults
Also, dispelling the myth that all Arab men systematically oppress and victimize Arab women.
Another Side of the Story
An interview with the managing editor of "Daily News Egypt," two-years after the Egyptian uprising.
Social Media in Africa’s Revolutions
How anonymous parties define, construct, and support uprisings in Africa via social media.
How to feminise a tank
The Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam’s work maps out the social and psychological position of the female body through the dialectic of the naked and the nude.
The Ministry of Culture
In the wake of January 2011, art is not yet able to understand the exemplary demography of the Egyptian people.
Nothing has Changed in Egypt
Tahrir Square has become the most troublesome of metaphors in a country beset by problems of representation.
Letter from Tunis
Tunisia, which kickstarted the "Arab Spring," is in a long pause between longtime dictator Ben Ali’s flight and elections scheduled for July 2011.