Oppression is not a point of view
By Maha Abdelrahman Routledge – 2015 – 170 pages Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government The millions of Egyptians who returned to the heart of Cairo and Egypt’s other major cities for 18 days until the eventual toppling of the Mubarak regime were orderly without an organisation, inspired without a leader, and single-minded without one guiding political ideology. This
» Read moreSoraya Morayef / 18 Nov 2014 Comic magazines Samir, Lulu and Mickey Geeb (Pocket-sized Mickey) and Arabic translations of Tintin, Superman and Asterix and Obelix have been read and loved by generations of Arabs. Editorial cartoons are fundamental parts of every daily newspaper. But comic art remains an often unexamined and under-supported part of Arab artistic effort. A new initiative is intent on changing that. In September, the American
» Read moreOfcom: Results from the Second Sampling Exercise 5 November 2014 This document is the second of four reports on the quality of live subtitling in British television programmes, based on samples drawn from live-subtitled programming broadcast in April and May 2014 by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. In order to address continuing complaints about the quality
» Read moreBy: Sultan Al Qassemi 31 October 2014 Egyptian artists were deeply involved in spearheading, capturing, and influencing the January 2011 uprising. In fact, the artistic community lost one of its own when 32-year-old Ahmed Bassiouny died in the early days of the uprising while taking part in the protests. For four days, the contemporary digital artist and experimental musician documented the protests in
» Read moreEdited by Paul F. Bandia Amsterdam/New York, NY 2014. VII, 235 pp. (Textxet 78) ISBN: 978-90-420-3894-3 Paper €52,-/US$73,- ISBN: 978-94-012-1176-5 E-Book €47,-/US$66,- Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=TEXTXET+78 This book is a much needed contribution to interdisciplinary research on the intersection of French and Francophone Studies and Translation Studies. It highlights the symbiotic relationship between the two disciplines whereby theories and concepts developed
» Read moreSally Toma Monday, October 13, 2014 A nurse and her staff have tamed the men in a mental health ward into becoming compliant patients. They spend their days and nights in a medicine-induced state of fogginess that prevents them from rebelling against the petty rules and regulations that govern the ward. A smug guy believing he is free arrived
» Read moreBy THE NEW YORK TIMES OCT. 15, 2014 There is no such thing as bad press for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, at least not if it is translated by Al Ahram, Egypt’s flagship state newspaper. A recent report in The New York Times described the muted reaction to Mr. Sisi’s speech last month before the United Nations General Assembly compared with
» Read moreCall for Papers: The 21stAnnual Research Conference March 16-18th, 2015 The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt Conference Website: http://conf.aucegypt.edu/AUC2015 Conference Email: auc.conf2015@aucegypt.edu Introduction The American University in Cairo (AUC) is hosting its annual conference on the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region post-2015 development agenda. AUC is the region’s premier English-language university connecting the region and the
» Read moreMarcia Lynx Qualey Last updated: 28 September 2014 Why are gentleman-thieves and murder mysteries making a comeback in Arabic popular fiction? When Egyptian novelist and photographer Ahmed Mourad was asked earlier this year, why so few Egyptians were writing crime novels, he said that the genre was new, “and anything new is usually accompanied by a lot of attack and criticism”. Then
» Read moreOmar Robert Hamilton London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 19 · 9 October 2014 page 30 | 1717 words After the shock and awe tactics of the Rabaa massacre last summer, when Egypt’s military regime murdered around a thousand supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, the rolling counter-revolution has played out mostly within the justice system, between police stations,
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