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700+ Bands and 2700+ Tunes
More than 700 bands. Over 2700 tunes. This makes MidEast Tunes (mideasttunes.org) is one of the largest Arabic music sites in he world. Founded in Beirut in 2010 by an organization called MidEast...
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Anthropology of Egypt: Stuff I Missed at the Anthropology Meetings
So many papers, so little time I spent Thursday through Saturday (Nov. 15-17) in rainy San Francisco at the American Anthropological Association meetings. I am trying to concentrate on my news media...
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Five Anthropological Approaches to the Arab Revolts That Excite Students
The web site Jadaliyya has a pedagogy section that also offers many suggestions for texts, films and approaches to the topic. How can we engage students in the Arab revolts from an anthropological...
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Does Middle Eastern Media Studies Need Its Own Paradigm?
Do the different media environments and contexts of the Middle East require a different set of approaches media studies of the region? Photo: Malek Rouchdy. Used by permission. [Article review by...
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The Pulse of the Egyptian Revolution: New Journal Issue
How has the Egyptian revolution affected efforts at economic and human rights development? A new journal article offers multiple viewpoints. The IDS Bulletin, published by the Institute of Development...
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Participatory Media Among Palestinian Youth
[Article review by Monica Komer] Even before the Arab uprisings, citizens have been actively participating in the formation and distribution of media across the region. In a 2009 article entitled...
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Can Egyptian Women Have Both Civil Rights And Political Freedom?
What kind of laws and regulations governing women’s action will be enacted by a new, more populist Egyptian government? I confess–I have thus far read only one of the papers in the IDS Bulleting...
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New Review of Connected in Cairo by Joel Gordon
It’s a very teachable book, writes Joel Gordon, but he’d like to see more of the middle classes who challenge elite assumptions. There’s a new review of Connected in Cairo written by Joel Gordon in the...
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What Does the Emergence of Arab Women Bloggers Mean For The Public Sphere?
The cover picture from the Middle Eastern edition of Connected in Cairo (AUC Press) features an Arab woman in a coffee shop using smart phone and laptop. What does the emergence of blogging as a new...
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Bipolar Unease: Arab Travelers Construct Uneasy identities in Europe
“Who am I, who am British in Egypt, but Egyptian in London?” one of my students once wrote in a class journal. Perhaps the answer lies in strategic nostalgia or banal nomadism, suggests Myria Georgiou....
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2012 In Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 42,000 views in 2012....
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Top Posts of 2012
#1 Bibliography of the Egyptian Uprisings The single most viewed post of 2012 is my bibliography of books and articles on the Egyptian uprising. I posted this when I realized that I had over 150...
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Rethinking Sexual Politics in Egypt
Can we represent Egyptian women without falling into academic stereotypes? Paul Amer may be showing us the way. Photo: Sophie Peterson. In 2011 Paul Amer published an article entitled “Turning the...
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Revolutionary Art in the Streets–and in the Galleries
Nancy Demerdash’s new article on art and art markets after the Arab uprisings is available free on-line as either a pdf or a slide show. Nancy Demerdash has a new article out on the role(s) of art in...
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Beyond the Art of Revolt in Egypt
The Egyptian Textiles Museum is one of the 550 “culture palaces” run by the Ministry of Culture. Some are fabulous, others grossly underfunded and mismanaged; most fall somewhere in between. What will...
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Did the Muslim Brotherhood Take Money From Obama? The Egyptian Judiciary...
Here’s a fun one. Did you know that President Obama is giving 1.3 billion dollars of your tax money to the Muslim Brotherhood? Or maybe it’s 1.5 billion, depending on which person is telling the story....
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Editor: Copts Hope For Strong Liberal Presence in Parliament
Will a more secularized parliament improve the outlook for Egypt’s Christian minority? Youssef Sidhom, Chief Editor of Watani, a weekly newspaper for the Coptic community with a circulation of about...
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Human Rights and the Elections in Egypt: Live on Facebook
Now that the parliamentary elections are coming, the NGO Human Rights First is bringing together Egypt’s “Facebook Girl” Esraa Abdel Fattah and journalist and activist Bassel Mohamed Adel Ibrahim for...
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The Egyptian Uprising Two Years On: Open Access Articles
A special issue of MERIP on the Egyptian revolution includes four open-access articles As the dramatic social changes in Egypt continue, every anniversary there is a call for reflections on how Egypt...
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Anti-Hegemony in Contemporary Egypt
“Anti-hegemony” is the sense that there is no leadership that is not corrupt and no legitimate institutions a that do not mask the special interests of elites. Photo Credit: Jonathan Rashad via...
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