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Sandra Laugier (Sorbonne) and Andrew Brandel (Harvard) Andrew O. Brandel has just sent out a brilliant CFP for a special issue of Open Philosophy on “Ordinary Aesthetics.” #Cavell #philosophy #aesthetics You can download it from here: degruyter.com/journal/key/op…

Radius is out today from Verso Books! Yasmin El-Rifae tells the story of Opantish, an intervention squad formed to rescue women who were being sexually assaulted while protesting in Tahrir Square. Read an excerpt on our website. granta.com/radius-feminis…

Obsessed with this photography project showing civil servants aIn different countries. First, Bolivia:

For those who could not attend, here's a recording of my talk on the Mass Culture Institute in Egypt from last Friday. Thanks Middle East Studies Program at UW Madison for the invitation!

More poetry from Cairo 💚💚💚

An old topic, but beautiful writing

Saving the dates

New Short Fiction from Sudan: ‘A Bunch of Losers’ arablit.org/2023/01/09/new…

Not true. Communism becomes appealing at the older age when people start hitting their heads against glass ceilings

Friends and colleagues working on journalism and activism in Egypt, check this call for pitches for MERIP. The medium of submissions can be diverse: words, images, poetry, translations, etc. are very much welcome! Deadline: 20 of February. merip.org/call-for-pitch…

Peer pressure

Discovering some relevant ethnographies about my homeland cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150176…

I wrote something about literary clubs in Cairo for those who read Czech

If you are interested to read Hussam Ahmed's book on Taha Hussein, The Last Nahdawi, and want to get it unwrapped, you can read my review of it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Phenomenal book by Rabza. Essential read for anyone working on Qutb. Treats Qutb beyond the category of Islamism. Re-situates him in the literary contexts from which he emerged. A fresh and illuminating perspective

Excited to share my latest piece on fiction writing in Cairo, exploring the intersections of gender, aging, and mobility in Cairo's literary clubs. Published by JMEWS read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-…

The international workshop "Studying Arts Anthropologically: What to Do with Texts?" (organized by Rabza & Ophélie Mercier of UGent) just wrapped up in Fayoum 🇪🇬 w/ researchers exploring creative methodologies for integrating art into anthropological research. Stay tuned!

After years of really exciting work, our special issue exploring the social lives that flourish within the ruined welfare states in Egypt and Sudan is now online and freely accessible. Published by CEDEJ with Carl Rommel journals.openedition.org/esma/3287?fbcl…

Thread re: Belarusian Tatars and Language politics. Tatars who settled in 14th/15th c in Grand Duchy of Lithuania developed in the 16th c an Arabic script for Belarusian language (called Kitab), one of 3 scripts (w/ Cyrillic and Latin) of the Belarusian language.