SCAF, Mona Baker

Meeting Essam Sharaf: Time for Truth and Reconciliation?

September 3, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Egypt, Soraya Morayef, Translating Dissent

By Soraya Morayef 15 July 2012 Over the past sixteen months, much has been written about Egypt’s leaderless revolution, with many blaming its seeming sluggishness on the absence of a single figure to unite and represent the now fragmented revolutionary forces. To me, and perhaps others, Essam Sharaf was—however briefly—a potential candidate for this task. On 4 March 2011, right

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Essam Sharaf, Jadaliyya, SCAF, Soraya Morayef

Update: Egypt confiscates revolution-time graffiti book for “instigating revolt”

February 18, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Street Art

Egypt Independent Mohamed Mostafa Egypt’s customs services in Alexandria have seized 400 copies of “Walls of Freedom”, a book depicting Egypt’s street graffitti art in the context of the 2011 uprising, for “instigating revolt,” says the Finance Ministry. Ahmed al-Sayyad, the ministry’s undersecretary, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the book contains elements that give “advice on confronting police and army forces,”