Saturday, 14 April 2012

The presidential theatre

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(Addition, 15 April in the morning: Oh the pleasure of getting it all wrong again. Just hours after I wrote this note, the supreme elector...
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Friday, 9 March 2012

Amshir

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Today is the last day of the Coptic month of Amshir, a month that is known for stormy and unpredictable weather, bringing cold weather in on...
Monday, 30 January 2012

Writing anthropology of and for the revolution

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Exactly one year after the I began writing this blog, here a more self-reflective essay about my experience of engaged anthropology, written...
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Sunday, 11 December 2011

Fantasy, action and the possible in 2011

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This essay is about Lenin, Tahrir, Islamists, poetry, choice and destiny in an attempt to provide some sort of theoretical synthesis of a co...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Jakob Lindfors writing: Continuous Elections – Until Victory!

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The following note about the first day of parliamentary elections in Egypt was written by Jakob Lindfors who was friendly enough to allow me...
Friday, 25 November 2011

Longing for the smell of teargas

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Today was a new day of mass protests against military rule in Egypt. While the attention of the media has focused on Tahrir Square, large ...
Thursday, 24 November 2011

Revolution as a way of life

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Today afternoon, Daniela and I decided to enjoy some normality. There is plenty of it, life going on as normal in the rest of Cairo while ...