In Praise of Mohamed Aboutrika
Aboutrika is the ‘superman’ of Egypt’s football, probably the best African to never play professionally in Europe and a political leader.
Egypt
How to feminise a tank
The Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam’s work maps out the social and psychological position of the female body through the dialectic of the naked and the nude.
‘Very African and Very Modern’
It may be tempting to read Congolese-Belgian rapper Baloji’s music as a relatively straightforward exercise in “indigenizing” or localizing hip-hop, but the story of his transnational musical moorings — especially his ambivalence toward Congolese pop — complicates such an interpretation.
January in Cairo III
We can deduce certain trends about Egyptian painting and the nature of its buyers.
The Ministry of Culture
In the wake of January 2011, art is not yet able to understand the exemplary demography of the Egyptian people.
Egypt on Film
Aflam, a new Belgian "festival of Arab cinema," features seven new and recent films about Egypt in Brussels.
Getting soft bellies
Our latest Weekend Special includes a lot of football (soccer) and that the United States is “the most Africanized nation in the Western world.”
The Women of Tahrir
Images by anthropologist Yasmin Moll. For more work by Moll, watch Fashioning Faith or read her recent contributions to The Revealer.
Many Feminisms
Nawal el-Saadawi on Al Jazeera English.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdU5R7ywQ4
A Great Day in Africa
Hosni Mubarak is gone. The hard questions–that Omar Suleiman and the military stand aside for an interim government and democratic elections; the hard work of dismantling a repressive, bloated, corrupt, state machinery; will Egyptians be left alone, and be supported, as they now set about constructing their own future(s) without regard to the West’s “strategic […]
'You know where Egypt is on a map?'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pedMB8zM2BQ The “internet stand-up comedian” Kassem G talks to beach goers in Venice Beach, California, about what’s going in Egypt. Some sample responses: “The one with the Cairo river and the pyramids?” “We’re going to war with Egypt?” Via Konwomyn.
Tahrir Square
These striking images of protesters on Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 1 was shot by British filmmaker Oliver Wilkins, a Cairo resident for the last 12 years. Backstory.
Cairo, City of Clay
A graphic novel probably doesn’t come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing’s City of Clay (“Stad van Klei”): The book follows the misadventures of civil servant Salem and his descent into madness when he starts labouring on an elaborate scheme that involves the creation of an entire imaginary town and its police force. While personally collecting the […]
'We All Shall Be Free'
Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and M-1 of Dead Prez’s just released ode to the protesters in Tahrir Square.
'50 Pounds and a Chicken'
NEWSWEEK [magazine]’s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go home when protests in Cairo turned violent [when Mubarak’s thugs attacked protesters].
Hosni Mubarak has a macabre sense of humor
We know that the Egyptian dictator has a macabre sense of humor: I am fed up. After 62 years in public service, I have had enough. I want to go [but] if I resign today, there will be chaos … I don’t care what people say about me. Right now I care about my country. […]
The Endgame
The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how [Hosni Mubarak] will pluck us and hunt us down one by one till we are over and done with and 8 months from now will pay people to stage fake protests urging him not to leave power, and he […]
Anderson Cooper is in Egypt
Overheard: “At least he will introduce the Egyptians to the form-fitting black t-shirt.” “If the Egyptians I know in New York City are any guide, the form fitting black t is not going to be a revelation … He should fit right in.” Watch Al Jazeera English instead. Here.