In September 2012, the euphoria of the Arab Spring was still continuing in the region. My wife and I decided to spend the 2012-2013 academic year in Qatar for research, and our son was born…
Martyn Frampton. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West. Harvard University Press, 2019. 672 pages, $26.00 paperback. The expansion of Western economic and political dominance during and following the colonial period led to the growth of…
Aaron Jakes. Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2020. 376 pages, $30 paperback. What was the relationship between colonialism, economism, and political thought? Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism…
Welcome to Knowledge and its Producers, a limited series from the Maydan produced by me, NA Mansour. In each episode, we’ll be talking to people who are at the forefront of knowledge production, typically away…
Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim’s Child Custody in Islamic Law is an important and well-researched contribution to Islamic family law in general and to changes on the concept of child custody (hidâna) from the early modern to…
Despite being influenced by both global and local conditions, there are noticeable phenomena characterizing the landscape of Muslim media in the Arab region – and especially Egypt – post-Arab Spring. Within the global context, there…
On January 17th and 18th 2020, The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) held a symposium on popular culture titled Produce, Consume, Conserve, which brought together academics, practitioners, and conservators to discuss popular culture…
Introduction | by N.A.Mansour Egypt’s Podcasts and Booktubes: A Literary Criticism of the Future? | by M Lynx Qualey Cairo Since 1900: Book Review and Interview with the Author | by Shaimaa S. Ashour Art…
There is a band from Beirut called the Wanton Bishops. They perform well, with the requisite stomping and head-bobbing you expect from “good performers.” They write coherent lyrics, mostly the blues and almost always in…
Editor’s note: Organized by M. Tahir Kilavuz, this roundtable is a companion to “Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings” a previous Maydan-Jadaliyya Roundtable edited by Abdullah al-Arian. It features contributions from Stacey Philbrick Yadav,…