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(Symposium) Cultures Of Freedom And Contending Visions Of Governance: Voices...
Click here for Conference program (PDF) (via Lucia Sorbera) Click here for the Event page. Click here for the Key speakers Facebook page. (with links for free registration)(432 views) The post...
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Alexandria and Activism – Translating Memory, Mythology and Utopianism...
Click here to view the video on YouTube. Date: 8 March 2015. Abstract: One of the long-standing fears of Alexandrian activism has been the eclipsing of its people’s local struggles by a Cairo-centric...
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When John Lennon and Yoko Ono tried to loot Egypt’s ancient treasures
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Egypt, 1977. (This post has also been translated into Arabic: عندما حاول جون لينون وزوجته سرقة كنوز مصر القديمة) I was researching something unrelated...
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The Strategic Implications of ISIS (Lecture)
My talk will examine the strategic threat of ISIS on Syria, Saudi-Iran relations, West-Iran relations, Arab uprisings, Iraqi Kurdistan and the dangerous precedent set by having a new ideology injected...
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The fallacy of claiming the Islamic State is a bigger threat to world order...
The Sydney University Politics Society have organised a debate titled: The Islamic State is a bigger threat to world order than Cold War communism. Although I disagree with the premise of the debate, I...
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What Louis Armstrong taught Egypt and the Middle East about itself
Louis Armstrong playing for his wife Lucille Wilson at the Pyramids of Giza (1961) This post has been republished in Open Democracy and the Sydney Democracy Network. If there was one legacy, among...
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The Five-Year Odyssey: Alexandria-related articles (2010-2015)
The following are most of my published articles (including some blog posts and videos) that deal with Alexandria-related issues or employs Alexandria as an illustration, from 2010 to 2015. However,...
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A Frightening Vision: On plans to rebuild the Alexandria Lighthouse
Originally published in Mada Masr, republished in openDemocracy Arabic translation: رؤية مرعبة: عن خطط إعادة بناء منارة الإسكندرية The Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria It’s no easy feat to restore the...
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Alexandria’s walls can still speak: Shaimaa el-Sabbagh in street art
The late poet, writer and activist Shaimaa el-Sabbagh who was killed by security forces on 24 January 2015, as she was walking to lay flowers for those who have fallen in Tahrir, has, this month, been...
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Interview with ABC News 24 on Egypt’s new anti-terror law
“In Egypt, an anti-terror law has been approved that toughens sentences for crime and protects authorities in enforcing the law. Journalists can be heavily fined under the new law for publishing...
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Was all of this worth it, Assad?
Imagine, when Bashar al-Assad and his regime was confronted with an uprising in early 2011, he could have wisely stepped down, initiated a democratic transition or negotiated a power-sharing agreement....
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When Hope and Despair collide in the Egyptian public sphere (lecture in Berlin)
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1655007894739574/ (22 views) The post When Hope and Despair collide in the Egyptian public sphere (lecture in Berlin) appeared first on Amro Ali:...
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Egyptian journalism: ‘Is there shame in [asking] a question?’
Published in Mada Masr “In Egypt, there is freedom of speech, but no freedom after speech” – went the running joke at a recent conference in Berlin that brought a number of prominent Egyptian media...
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The Hidden Triumph of the Egyptian Revolution
To those who cast doubt on the success of the Egyptian revolution. Step back, look around you, and reflect for a moment. [From Alexandria’s Stanley neighborhood: “The People,” the eternal cry of the...
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Why terrorism will always feel worse today than in previous decades
This will not be of much consolation to the people and victims in Brussels, but it’s important to put the timeline of terrorism in Western Europe in perspective. As the chart by Satista shows, this, by...
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Back to the City: Understanding Alexandria’s Historical Awareness of Civic...
I will be giving a talk and holding a discussion that seeks to understand how historical and philosophical processes shape the Alexandrian citizen’s relationship to identity, spaces and history. The...
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Giulio and the Italians of Egypt
Published in Mada Masr Between the static desert that “ceaselessly wears away” and the perpetual sea that “furiously manifests renewal” is constituted “my first vision of reality.” These are the words...
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Giulio Regeni e gli italiani in Egitto che denunciano il regime (Italian...
Published in Italy’s Internazionale magazine. Originally published in Mada Masr (in English). Tra il deserto immobile che “incessantemente si consuma” e il mare perpetuo che “manifesta furiosamente...
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Kakistocracy: A word we need to revive
“Stupidity does not consist in being without ideas. Such stupidity would be the sweet, blissful stupidity of animals, molluscs and the gods. Human Stupidity consists in having lots of ideas, but...
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The Middle East: World Crisis? A Conference
ShareI will be giving a talk on 4 June in Berlin regarding Egypt’s role in the region vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia and Turkey, with a focus on how the 2011 revolution impacts the legitimacy and narrative...
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