Define your generation here. Generation What
Lina Attalah
 
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Opinion
Lina Attalah
From boredom to labor and labor to boredom
We are 4 years old and still fighting boredom through the act of watching and producing
2 July 2017
Lina Attalah
Migration as agency
There is a humbling courage required to risk riding the sea.
1 October 2016
Lina Attalah
It’s time for laughter
Every day we try to think, analyze and articulate how those managing our lives are doing very little
10 December 2015
 
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features
January 25 2018 • 35 min read
From revolution to powerlifting
Lina Attalah | Lina Attalah profiles Sarah Carr, a woman who leaped from the world of journalism to powerlifting
30 January 2018
Rabea al-Adaweya anniversary • 12 min read
Witnessing a massacre
Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Lina Attalah, Mosa’ab Elshamy and Sharif Abdel Kouddous | Four Egyptian journalists reconstruct the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in dispersal
14 August 2017
1967 • 21 min read
Defeat’s possibilities: 3 activists recount 1967 as formative
Lina Attalah and Yasmin El-Rifae | 1967: the moment that fractured the new nationalism; politically formative for generations to follow
12 July 2017
conversations about the arts • 60 min read
Another stream of synonyms: A conversation with Rana ElNemr
Lina Attalah | Talking about undermining the documentary, intuition, maps, clichés and curiosity.
22 March 2017
2016 year enders • 15 min read
While a bad year for civil society, all vow to find ways to continue
Lina Attalah | Facing intensifying restrictions, which may hurt the rule of law most, civil society workers vow to continue
26 December 2016
devaluation • 25 min read
To cope or to resist: How people deal with abruptly deteriorating economic conditions
Lina Attalah, Naira Antoun, Reem Saad and Yasmine M. Ahmed | Anthropologists Reem Saad and Yasmine M. Ahmed join Mada to discuss popular responses to economic hardship
22 December 2016
 
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News
Arish • 19 min read
Sinai: States of fear
28 February 2015
Armed Forces • 6 min read
Armed Forces say miracle HCV cure needs 6 months of further testing
28 June 2014
Armed Forces • 8 min read
Rabea, the day after
28 July 2013
Armed Forces spokesperson statements • 4 min read
Protesters remain polarized as army deadline draws near
3 July 2013
 
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