TOPIC History
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Reading turath in Ahmed Sadiq Saad’s texts
Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid | Tanmiya and taruth: a dehistoricized tradition is the effect and pivot of a dehistoricized present
Q & A with Elise Burton: On genetics and nationalist projects
Hussein Mohsen | Genetic data collected from individuals only becomes meaningful in relation to the data of others.
Shafiqa al-Qibtiyya: The Blueprint for Egyptian Celebrity
Raphael Cormack | The 1920s in Cairo was the age of the female celebrity
Midnight in Cairo: A Conversation with Raphael Cormack
Ifdal Elsaket and Raphael Cormack | Ifdal Elsaket discusses "Midnight in Cairo" with author, Raphael Cormack
Heliopolis: A brave new city
Dina Hussein and Lina Attalah | “Metro” is the keyword that transports Heliopolitans to their old neighborhood.
A history of the state told through the senses: A conversation with Khaled Fahmy
Youssef El Chazli | In All the Pasha’s Men, Fahmy took up the narrative of Mohammed Ali’s construction of modern Egypt
The ‘fountain of youth’ and the insurgent subject of history
Ahmed El Serougui | unpacks the category of “youth” and the crisis associated with it, through three crossings
How ordinary Egyptians embodied nationalism around the 1919 revolution
Osman El Sharnoubi | Ziad Fahmy uses popular culture to look back at the emergence of a distinctly Egyptian identity
A treasure trove of Egyptian food
Hala N. Barakat | An Iraqi food writer unearths and translates a manuscript on Egyptian medieval cooking
 
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Nader Andrawos and Alaa Badr
The Arab intellectual, past and present
Is it too self-indulgent to call such an ill-defined group a new intellectual generation?
Alaa Abd El Fattah
Five metaphors on healing
Suffering is not sacrifice and the body is not a machine. The pain is not yours alone
Edna Bonhomme
A Black American poet in Cairo in the 50s and 60s
Was the anti-colonial period an exception for Arab-Black solidarity?
 
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