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Judith Butler on Tahrir Square
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ramadan Kareem
August 1, 2011 By 4 Comments
Though it remains to be seen what political, economic and social changes will happen (if any) in the “New Egypt,” its first Ramadan after Mubarak’s downfall will undoubtably be memorable. Iftar in Tahrir will be magnificent, I have no doubt. But it might also be a tense affair for all involved, considering how vocal conservative […]
Hip Hop and the “Arab Spring”
July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
From “Hip Hop & Diaspora: Connecting the Arab Spring” by Lara Dotson-Renta over at the Arab Media & Society online journal: The diasporic connections visible in the hip-hop of the Arab Spring, and the many possibilities for future dialogues that these engender are, however, most visible in collaborations such as ”January 25,” a song spearheaded by […]
The “Fall” of Capital
June 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On May 18th, Slavoj Žižek, Mamdouh Habashi, Samir Amin, David Harvey and Zygmunt Bauman participated in a roundtable entitled “Meaning of Maghreb?” during the Decolonization: New Emancipatory Struggles conference in Croatia. Largely focused on Egypt (the moderator explained the “unexpected” uprisings had caught them by surprise, necessitating its inclusion in the discussion), Samir Amin kicked off […]
“Piss Off to Tahrir Square!”
May 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Al Jazeera’s documentary on the April 6 Youth Movement (“The Arab Awakening: Seeds of Revolution”) follows the group leaders – among them Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel, Amr Ali and Amal Sharif – throughout Egypt’s January 25 revolution as well as its aftermath. Chain-smoking their way through the revolution, the documentary focused on the “people power” […]
Letter from Tunisia
May 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Gregory Mann, Guest Blogger Have we already forgotten that the ‘Arab Spring’ began in the winter? Ben Ali and co. took flight in January, before the whole word learned that the Arabic word for ‘liberation’ is ‘Tahrir,’ as in ‘Tahrir Square.’ But Tunisia’s revolution is not yet ancient history—it’s still underway. Here in Tunis, the […]
Nawal el Saadawi Feels Young Again
May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Vanity Fair does Egypt
April 20, 2011 By 3 Comments
Vanity Fair’s May issue features a photographic series of young Egyptians dubbed, at various points in the accompanying article, ‘tech-savvy internet activists.’ The first photograph is of Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who created the Arabic-language Facebook page, “We Are All Khaled Said.” Ghonim (in the photo above) emerged as a hero of sorts (despite […]
Images of the Egyptian Revolution
April 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
A special edition of Sowar Magazine is dedicated to pictures of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution which occurred between January 25, 2011 and February 11, 2011 and led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. The images are in chronological order. No, there’s no Twitter and Facebook anywhere in the photographs. Technology may have been an […]
Football is the Opposite of Politics
March 22, 2011 By 2 Comments
Football once kept Egyptians distracted, silent, and angry at the wrong people. However, when Egyptians rose up on January 25th to call for the ouster of Hosni Mubarak and his regime, the Egyptian Soccer Federation quickly moved to suspend all league matches. Why? After all, as Adel Iskandar claims: “Fundamentally, the sport is the polar opposite […]
