TOPIC History
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book reviews • 58 min read
A history of the state told through the senses: A conversation with Khaled Fahmy
Youssef El Chazli | In All the Pasha’s Men, Fahmy took up the narrative of Mohammed Ali’s construction of modern Egypt
7 June 2019
History • 18 min read
The ‘fountain of youth’ and the insurgent subject of history
Ahmed El Serougui | unpacks the category of “youth” and the crisis associated with it, through three crossings
26 April 2019
1919 revolution • 20 min read
How ordinary Egyptians embodied nationalism around the 1919 revolution
Osman El Sharnoubi | Ziad Fahmy uses popular culture to look back at the emergence of a distinctly Egyptian identity
31 March 2019
book reviews • 14 min read
A treasure trove of Egyptian food
Hala N. Barakat | An Iraqi food writer unearths and translates a manuscript on Egyptian medieval cooking
25 August 2018
1967 • 19 min read
Historiographical frustrations: Writing the history of the 1967 defeat
Osman El Sharnoubi | "The documents are damning. The state doesn’t want you to find out the scandalous way it did its business."
8 June 2017
archives • 1 min read
Video: How can we fit the world into folders?
Lara El Gibaly, Nael El Toukhy and Rowan El Shimi | This Alexandrian bookseller has independently created a massive scholarly archive
14 February 2017
cinema • 19 min read
The uprising will not be filmed: Cinematic representations of the 1977 bread riots
Adham Youssef | Film seems to have largely neglected the 1977 bread riots
31 January 2017
History • 10 min read
I like collecting ugly things: On Amgad Naguib’s Townhouse show
Ifdal Elsaket | A show about the magnitude of what gets left out and the futility of capturing the past's messiness.
8 December 2016
cinema • 8 min read
We Are Egyptian Armenians, and that’s all you need to know
Lara El Gibaly | If we judge this film as a history lesson, it is quite successful.
23 November 2016
 
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Nader Andrawos and Alaa Badr
The Arab intellectual, past and present
Is it too self-indulgent to call such an ill-defined group a new intellectual generation?
26 January 2020
Alaa Abd El Fattah
Five metaphors on healing
Suffering is not sacrifice and the body is not a machine. The pain is not yours alone
26 September 2019
Edna Bonhomme
A Black American poet in Cairo in the 50s and 60s
Was the anti-colonial period an exception for Arab-Black solidarity?
27 February 2018
 
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