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Underground Music and the Tunisian Revolution
This blog is about Egypt but very occasionally I stray from the main topic to discuss issues related to the Arab uprisings outside of Egypt. This is one of those times. Underground Music and the...
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International Studies – Second Edition
Just a quick piece of shameless self-promotion: Amazon is now taking pre-orders for the second edition of International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues for both the paperback...
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Anthropologists Writing About Copts In Postrevolutionary Egypt
A tower at St. Catherine’s monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt. This is possibly the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world. “Twice a year, at Christmas and Easter,...
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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...
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Ousting the Brotherhood: Take That America?
What happens when the US and Egyptians differ on the meaning of “democratically elected”? Photo by Malak Rouchdy Last Spring I gave the keynote address at the regional Model Arab League, which Miami...
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Learning About Political Change from Pious Egyptian Women
Can an understanding of the agency of pious Muslim women teach us lessons about political change generally? Anthropologist Leslie Lewis thinks so. Leslie Lewis reflects on the nature of women’s...
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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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Japanese Popular Culture In Egypt
One of the main things that led to the research that became Connected in Cairo was an interest in the different ways Japanese popular culture–especially, but not limited to Pokémon–was localized...
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When We Assess Democracy In Egypt, Whose “Democracy” Are We Measuring?
“Bread, freedom, social justice!” What’s your definition of democracy? Yesterday, after a lecture on ethnographic fieldwork, a student came up to me to discuss the anthropological concepts of...
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“The Egyptian Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet”
I had dinner with Robin Wright this week after she delivered the 2016 Grayson-Kirk lecture at Miami University. Egypt was one of seven countries she discussed (along with Iran, Iraq, Libya, Saudi...
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