Articles tagged with: revolution
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
Actor Waleed Hammad dressed up as a woman and walked Egypt’s streets for an investigative television report into what it feels like to be sexually harassed. The program aired earlier this month, and perhaps best exemplifies one of the major achievements of the January 25 revolution: the heightened awareness of the endemic sexual harassment of women on Egypt’s streets. Hammad’s video footage of his secret assignments, as well as the widespread coverage his story has received, would have...
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Sunday, 28 Apr, 2013
Haram Street, the Cairene boulevard famed for its late-night entertainment and tourist traps, was most recently used as the title of a film that broke records at the Egyptian box office. A heaving avenue, it is the main artery joining Cairo’s sprawling metropolis to the Giza pyramids. The journey from the pyramids to Tahrir Square says something of how much—and how little—Egypt has changed since the revolution.
As a resident of Haram Street, I am well acquainted with the purveyors...
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Saturday, 27 Apr, 2013
Standing at the crossroads between expressionism, surrealism and cubism, Bahgory considers himself a disciple of Pablo Picasso. The grotesque laughter characterizing a substantial ...
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Saturday, 6 Apr, 2013
Last year’s Doha Tribeca film festival marked a tipping point for female Arab directors. From Rafea: Solar Mama, a sparky documentary about a Jordanian woman who trains to be a s...
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Monday, 18 Mar, 2013
In the pre-Arab Spring era, the conventional wisdom was that an uprising in Syria was far fetched. Articles written by learned experts proclaimed Assad’s immunity to the tid...
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I arrived at the hotel at 4:30 p.m. I left my baggage in the room, picked up the map and went out. I had read on the plane that there was a demonstration in Tahrir Square organiz...
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A number of shibboleths have dominated the study of Iran since the revolution. One such shibboleth is the assertion that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is the ultimat...
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Wednesday, 5 Sep, 2012
Khaled al-Khamissi is an Egyptian who was once hailed as the man who “predicted the uprising”.
Author of the acclaimed novel Taxi, a series of fictional monologues with Cair...
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Friday, 31 Aug, 2012
Eighteen months after Mohammad Bouazizi set himself on fire, igniting region-wide uprisings, I am still coming across articles authored by Arab women lamenting the failure of these...
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Wednesday, 29 Aug, 2012
The Majalla: What was the level of polarization on both sides before the revolution?
No one hated Bashar Al-Assad before the revolution, few people were criticizing him. The co...
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