حلقة يوم الأحد ٢٠ فبراير ٢٠٢٢ من برنامج “خارج النص” ومناقشة لكتاب كل رجال الباشا.
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On the precarity of conducting academic research in Egypt today. A talk delivered at UPenn on 13 October 2021.
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(This chapter was originally published in Italian on 13 January in Minnena 2: Repressione, disinformazione e ricerca tra Egitto e Italia, edited by Lorenzo Casini and Daniela Melfa.) The tragic fate that Giulio Regeni met in Cairo in January 2016 is a grim blot on Egypt’s record of protecting academic research. While academic freedom is not sacrosanct in Egypt, never before has a researcher, national or foreigner, been abducted, tortured, and murdered because of their research, no matter how delicate or sensitive their subject matter is. Five years after Regeni’s brutal murder, the Egyptian authorities have yet to identify, let…
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Historian Khaled Fahmy, who teaches at Cambridge and has studies the history of Mehmed Ali Pasha and his son Ibrahim, speaks to LiFo on the occasion of his participation in the “1821: The Known-Unknown Revolution” conference. This is an English translation of an interview with Vassili Siyouti which appeared in Lifo Magazine on 11 November 2021. A different conference on the Greek revolution of 1821 is being held these days (December 9-12) at the Law School and the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens. The aim of the organizers is to highlight the perspectives that have been enlightened by…
2 CommentsTalk delivered on October 13, 2021 to the Islamic Art Circle of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). This talk tells the story of the külliyye (pious endowment complex) that Muhammad Ali Pasha (r. 1805-1848) built in his home town of Kavala in modern-day Greece over a period of thirteen years, 1808 -1821. It traces the story of this complex of interconnected buildings that includes a medrese (theological seminary), a sıbyan mekteb (primary school), a kütüphane (library), a dershane (lecture hall) which also served as a mosque, a Mühandeshane-i Hayriyye (Charitable College of Engineering), sixty rooms to house…
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Broadcast on November 3, 2021 About this episode: The next episode in the series covers the fascinating life of Gamal Abdul Nasser, revolutionary and former president of Egypt. Nasser emerged at a time when Egypt was controlled by the British and through determination and powerful leadership he led a coup that saw Egyptians control Egypts future. Infamously he would nationalize the Suez canal, sparking a huge diplomatic incident. While also acting as a leader of sorts to many countries also seeking to move past their recent colonial pasts. He was an incredible speaker, a beloved leader and shaped the Arab…
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ما أن نشر موقع “إسرائيل تتكلم بالعربية” التابع لوزارة الخارجية الإسرائيلية يوم ٢٧ أكتوبر تدوينة تقول إن “المكتبة الوطنية الإسرائيلية تدشن أرشيفا رقميا لصحيفة الأهرام المصرية” حتى تدافع الصحفيون والقراء من مصر وسائر البلدان العربية يتساءلون عن كيفية وصول أرشيف أقدم صحيفة يومية مصرية لإسرائيل حيث يتاح مجانا لرواد المكتبة الوطنية هناك، وهو الأمر الذي وصفه محمود كامل، عضو مجلس نقابة الصحافيين، بأنه “جريمة جديدة ارتكبها الكيان الصهيوني تضاف إلى سجله الحافل بالسطو والاعتداء والقرصنة.” وطالب محمود كامل بفتح تحقيق رسمي فيما رآه واقعة فساد بعد أن اتضح له أن أرشيف الأهرام قد بيع بكامله منذ ثماني سنوات لشركة أمريكية اسمها “إيست فيو”…
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سعيد للغاية على حصول الصديق العزيز د. محمد الشاهد على جائزة الدولة التشجيعية في فرع النشر المعماري والعمراني.أما الكتاب الفائز فهو Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide . وهو من منشورات قسم النشر بالجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة عام 2020. الكتاب بالفعل يستحق الجائزة بجدارة. فموضوعه في غاية الأهمية، إذ أنه يوثق لروائع العمارة القاهرية في القرن العشرين، وعلى مدار حوالي 400 صفحة يطوف بنا الشاهد في أحياء القاهرة ويقدم لنا مباني بعضها مألوف مثل المتحف المصري، وبعضها “مجهول” مثل عمارة صدقي باشا في شارع عزيز اباظة بالزمالك من تصميم ألبرت زنانيري. ( 1947). أقول “مجهول” إذ أننا نمر على الكثير من…
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In a New York Times Guest Essay, “Israel’s real existential threat” (17 May 2021), Yossi Klein Halevi points to an important aspect of the recent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians, namely, the interethnic violence that broke out in many of the so-called mixed cities inside Israel. Halevi finds particularly disturbing the fact that the worst of the unrest took place in Lod, “a mixed Arab-Jewish working-class town minutes from Ben Gurion Airport.” Equally disturbing for him is the fact that this outbreak of interethnic violence came in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic which “brought Arab citizens [of Israel] closer…
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