A book of unfinished theories

by Samuli Schielke. (From 2011 until 2014 this blog carried the title "You'll be late for the revolution!" An Anthropologist's Diary of the Egyptian Revolution and what followed.)

Saturday, 19 March 2011

After the revolution

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As I write these final notes from the Egyptian revolution on my way back to Germany, I once again curse my amazingly bad timing regarding ke...

Friday, 18 March 2011

Yes or No?

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(This note is from 17 March but it was posted after midnight) Today, there is only one issue to any discussion in Cairo: whether to vote “Ye...

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Among the left wing, or the dark side of military rule

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(This note is from Wednesday 16 March but it was posted after midnight) This was a day which I spent almost entirely with people from the in...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

In transition, where to?

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The last few days in Egypt have been marked by a move from revolutionary tension to a rather contradictory normality and entirely new issues...

Saturday, 12 March 2011

Consolidation, for better and for worse

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(This post is from Friday 11 March, but it was posted after midnight) Today I left the village for Alexandria, Egypt’s second-largest city, ...

Friday, 11 March 2011

An amazing success and a spectacular failure

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(This note is from Thursday 10 March, but it was posted after midnight) This was a day of contradictory news. While the army is running a br...

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