Category: Egypt

Between Exile and Elegy, Palestine and Egypt: Mourid Barghouti’s Poetry and Memoirs

Culture, Egypt, Tahia Abdel Nasser, Translating Dissent

Author: Tahia Abdel Nasser1 Source: Journal of Arabic Literature, Volume 45, Issue 2-3, pages 244 – 264 Publication Year : 2014 DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341286 ISSN: 0085-2376 E-ISSN: 1570-064x Document Type: Research Article Subjects: Middle East & Islamic Studies Keywords: Egypt; Palestine; revolutionary poetics; exile; Mourid Barghouti/Murīd al-Barghūthī; Arabic elegy; memoirs This article reads the migration of poetry and memoirs by the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti (Murīd al-Barghūthī) in the context of Egypt’s January 25, 2011 Revolution. At the start of 2012,

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Panel 3 | The Language of Revolution: Poetry as Archive: Egypt's Revolution and Archival Poetics

Egypt, Tahia Abdel Nasser, Translating Dissent

  Added: 25 May 2012 2012-05-18-egypt-nasser-32.mp4 Tahia Abdel Nasser of the American University in Cairo analyses Egyptian poetry from the 2011 revolution and its role as archive and political site. Series: The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/panel-3-language-revolution-poetry-archive-egypts-revolution-and-archival-poetics

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Gamal Abdel Nasser Through the Worm’s Eye and the Eagle’s Eye

Egypt, Tahia Abdel Nasser, Translating Dissent

BY MLYNXQUALEY on OCTOBER 1, 2013 Arab Literature in English Last week, Mohga Hassib attended one of AUC’s Center for Translation Studies lectures. Dr. Tahia Abdel Nasser talked about “Translations of Nasser: Between the Pulic and the Private“:   By Mohga Hassib Forty years ago — on September 24, 1973 — Tahia Abdel Nasser, the late president’s wife, decided to change the various

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Tahia speaks about her grandfather, the iconic Arab leader Gamal Abdel Nasser

Egypt, Tahia Abdel Nasser, Translating Dissent

Published on Oct 10, 2013   Tahia Khaled Abdel Nasser, assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo and granddaughter of Tahia and Gamal Abdel Nasser, is the editor of “Nasser: My Husband” by Tahia Gamal Abdel Nasser, translated by Shereen Mosaad, with a foreword by Hoda Gamal Abdel Nasser. In this interview she shares

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Global Street Art Episode 1 – Egypt – Cairo SprayCan Rebels – Art in the Streets – MOCAtv

Citizen Media, Egypt, Soraya Morayef, Street Art, Translating Dissent

Published on Mar 22, 2013   Egypt’s January 25 revolution helped bring out the best in raw and potent urban arts, most of all in the graffiti scene in Cairo. This short video gives a brief glimpse into the always evolving street art scene that has gone from strength to strength and become a valuable component in the creative resistance

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Here Today: Soraya Morayef & Egyptian Street Art

Citizen Media, Egypt, Soraya Morayef, Street Art, Translating Dissent

Africaseen blog, 2nd April 2013 by Susan Phillips While Soraya Morayef identifies herself as a writer and journalist, I see her through a different lens, as an artist and archivist. Through her photo blog documenting the extraordinary explosion of street art in Egypt following the initial Tahrir Square protests of January 2011, Morayef has captured, framed, and contextualized a fleeting moment in Egypt’s

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Egyptian Graffiti and Gender Politics: An Interview with Soraya Morayef

Citizen Media, Egypt, Interviews, Protest Movements, Soraya Morayef, Street Art, Translating Dissent

28 March 2013, africaisacountry.com Mickey Mouse is pulling apart a bomb: inside is the torso of George W. Bush, and they’re both looking perfectly happy about the whole thing. Soraya Morayef is taking a photo of the wall where these figures are painted, on a busy street in downtown Cairo, when a man walks up to her and asks her

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Film review: The Square

Citizen Media, Egypt, Film, Protest Movements, Soraya Morayef, Translating Dissent

By Soraya Morayef Open Democracy, 25 March 2014 The author reviews the only documentary released to-date of the people’s uprising in Egypt until the fall of Mohamed Morsi on 3 July 2013. There is no such thing as a comprehensive narrative of the Egyptian revolution. Anyone attempting such a thing will most likely fail, as the complex evolution of a

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Angels caught in a tightening noose

Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Human Rights, Soraya Morayef, Street Art, Translating Dissent

By Soraya Morayef Open Democracy, 13 November 2013 Many disregard the recurrent stories of prison deaths, police torture and rape because – on the other hand – Egypt’s streets are empty after curfew and the walls are freshly painted; surely a clear indication that the state has succeeded in restoring security and defeating terrorism. On Tuesday November 5, Egypt’s Minister

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The Seven Wonders of the Revolution

Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements, Soraya Morayef, Street Art, Translating Dissent

By Soraya Morayef Jadaliyya, 22 May 2012 Around the corner from Tahrir Square, the heart of Egypt’s eighteen-day uprising, Mohamed Mahmud Street bears the scars of a turbulent political year in Egypt. The once-bustling street off of Tahrir Square has seen its share of violent battlefields–beginning with 28 January 2011 and ending with the February 2012 clashes following the Port

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