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Taking the Long View on Egypt’s Revolution: Cook’s “Struggle For Egypt”
Steven Cook’s recent book on the political development of Egypt, The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, (Oxford University Press, 2011) traces political change from the pre-Nasser era to...
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Review of “Goodbye Mubarak”
My review of Goodbye Mubarak, a film by Katia Janjoura, has been published by the Anthropology Review Database. This film focuses not so much on the 18 days in Tahrir Square, but on the tensions and...
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Egypt’s Economic Crisis: Thirty Years of Fiscal Mismanagement
In 2004 Samer Soliman completed a PhD dissertation which was subsequently published in Arabic as “Al-Nizam al-Qawy wal Dawlah al-Da`ifah: Al-Azma al-Maliyyah wal-Taghyir al-Siyasih fi Misr fi `Ahd...
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Why Inside-Out Cities Produce Street Politics
Out in the street, says Asef Bayat, a public sphere forms and politics happens apart from the elites and middle-classes who run the formal political apparatuses of the state. There’s a very interesting...
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The Pulse of the Egyptian Revolution: New Journal Issue
How has the Egyptian revolution affected efforts at economic and human rights development? A new journal article offers multiple viewpoints. The IDS Bulletin, published by the Institute of Development...
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Fixing The ‘Ashwa’iyyat ?
This photo is by another former AUC student. Photo Credit: Hossam el-Hamalawy حسام الحملاوي via Compfight cc One day when they were about ten or eleven, I took my daughter Madi and her best friend,...
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Wasta, Work and Corruption in Transnational Business
Thinking about wasta: When does using your social relations in management become “corruption”? Photo Credit: Interact Egypt – Play Innovation via Compfight cc I recently read an article on wasta and...
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In Mubarak’s Egypt, It Was the Economy, Stupid
It was the failure of the Mubarak regime to alleviate poverty and deliver prosperity that led to the uprisings–not its authoritarianism, claims a recent article. Photo: Sophie Peterson. A new article...
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The Power of Being Powerless in Egypt
As the regimes commitment to neoliberalism creates more and more powerless people in institutional terms, their collective real power increases, argues a recent article by Girijesh Pant. Photo: Hossam...
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Is As-Sisi Rebuilding “Mubarak’s Pyramid”?
Construction of the canal that delivers water from the “New Valley” project under the Toshka spillway. Widely recognized as a debacle, the project is one of several issues involving farmers in a new...
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