Clik here to view.
Anthropologists Write About Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year...
What do the anthropologists have to say about the Egyptian uprisings? Having shared a number of collections of articles on Egypt’s ongoing struggles by political scientists, geographers and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Egyptian Televangelists: Build a New Egypt Through an Ethical Revolution
Televangelists like Moez Masoud are calling for Egyptians to rebuild Egypt by rebuilding themselves. In Chapter Four of Connected In Cairo I write about cosmopolitan Egyptian students at a private...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anthropology of Egypt: Stuff I Missed at the Anthropology Meetings
So many papers, so little time I spent Thursday through Saturday (Nov. 15-17) in rainy San Francisco at the American Anthropological Association meetings. I am trying to concentrate on my news media...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Writing Ethnography in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Photo by Emily Crane. Used by permission. How does one write ethnography of an unfolding revolution? “For decades,” writes Julia Elyachar, “Cairo has been the default location for anthropologists as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The US And The Muslim Brotherhood
“Why did the US put the Muslim Brotherhood in power?”many Egyptians ask. For most Americans the question doesn’t even make sense. It was not the confusions and contradictions of Egyptian electoral...
View Article
