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A Changing American Context? Reflections on Two Books on Egyptian History...
Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Raouf `Abbas Hamid and `Asim el-Dessouky, The Large Landowning Class and...
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Writing the Revolution: Dilemmas of Ethnographic Writing after the January...
Abridged version from the American Anthropology Association (AAA) panel, “Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa: Anthropological Perspectives.” How to write ethnographically about Egypt after...
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الأبعاد المسكوت عنها في الأزمة بين القضاة والمحامين في مصر
كانت مناقشة مشروع تعديل قانون السلطة القضائية مناسبة لحلقة جديدة من مسلسل الصراع القديم المتجدد بين جناحي العدالة. البداية جاءت تزامنا مع اجواء ثورة 25 يناير 2011 والرغبة في تدعيم دولة القانون حيث شكل...
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Beyond Mullahs and Persian Party People: The Invisibility of Being Iranian on TV
At first glance, the impending premiere of Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset would seem to herald that Iranian Americans have finally achieved melting pot bliss in the cauldron of American multiculturalism....
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While You Were Sleeping, Again
Another early morning in Baba Amr, another late night here. My plan is to write a simple post from a few reports on the day’s events in Homs, the fifth consecutive day of shelling in Baba Amr. Keeping...
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Egypt's Other Revolution: Modernizing the Military-Industrial Complex
The Egyptian military produces a staggering array of manufactured goods: kitchen cutlery, flat-screen televisions, agricultural and household chemicals, refrigerators, industrial machinery, railway...
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On Vetoes, Negotiations, and Syria: RT Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor...
In the below interview with Russia Today, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses developments in Syria with a particular eye to the maneuvering of key international players. He highlights the...
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Post-Elections Egypt: Revolution or Pact?
For many people, it is compelling, if not intuitive, to think of Egypt’s parliamentary elections as a logical extension of what Egyptians started on 25 January 2011. Elections, the conventional...
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The Israeli Position Toward the Events in Syria
PNN/ Policy Analysis Unit- ACRPS Israel's stake in what takes place in Syria stems from geographic proximity, the ongoing official state of war between the two countries, Syria's demands to recover...
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The Israeli Position Toward Events in Syria
Israel's stake in what takes place in Syria stems from geographic proximity, the ongoing official state of war between the two countries, Syria's demands to recover the Golan, and Israel's fear that...
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Watching Cairo from Beirut
I was in Lebanon, about six months into my dissertation fieldwork. As the crowds in Tahrir grew day by day, and all the world watched, I felt at first that I was watching an important symbolic act...
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What Is Cultural Terrorism?
As a well disciplined anthropologist I have learned to be weary of the word “culture.” In fact, it is difficult for me to write the word without using scare quotes. But after Lebanese BDS activists...
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New Raw Deal for Israelis, Old Raw Deal for Palestinians: Labor Zionism and...
The vision document produced by the organizers of last year’s “Israeli Summer” demonstrations laments how, “for a number of decades, the various governments of Israel have opted for an economic policy...
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The Libyan Model?
In the halls of the United Nations (UN) in New York, “Libya” hangs like an ellipse. For some, the word connotes a successful agenda for humanitarian intervention. For others, it suggests a disaster....
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Turkey's Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: An Interview with Asli Bali...
This is Part 2 of a two-part interview in which Asli Bali discusses Turkey's foreign policy interests and objectives with regards to the Middle East. In this second part of the interview, Asli...
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مفتاح منطقة القلب
كانت فكرة حمقاء... استيقظت اليوم بعد نوم عسير قصير وقررت أن رائحة معجون الحلاقة قد تعينني على ما علق في النفس من قبح أخبار المجزرة. حمقاء أقول... ارتعدتُ مما تنطوي عليه العملية من ضرورة مواجهة عار...
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Palestine Diaries
When I told the Israeli border official who interviewed me that I was going to Ramallah, she sneered and wrinkled her brow: “okay,” why, would anyone go there, she seemed to say. There was no...
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Building the New Egypt: Islamic Televangelists, Revolutionary Ethics, and...
Appearing on state television after the fall of Mubarak for the first time in his career, the famous Egyptian Islamic televangelist Amr Khaled told the program host that he had seen God in Tahrir. “I...
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لن أخون وطني
بمَ يمكن أن يشهد مثقف خارج طائفته، وخارج نظامها السياسي الحاكم عليها بالموت؟ أتحدث عن المنامة هنا بما هي واجهة للسلطة السياسية التي أسندت إليها مهمة الاحتفال بعاصمة الثقافة العربية. أنا مثقف معارض...
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