Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Mona Abaza is Professor at the Department of Sociology, American University in Cairo. Her latest books include The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story (American University in Cairo Press, 2013) and Twentieth Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei (American University in Cairo Press, 2011).
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaStrikes, protests and Egyptian nights of curfewA conversation about journalism and research in times of uprising and repression on the fourth anniversary of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe criminal, the victim, the policeman, the judge“I do not know if Carlo Ginzburg would agree, but I came to evaluate fear as a precious tool for fieldwork in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhere we come from“The real problem is a lack of appreciation of history by the general public and their willingness to accept myth as...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMultiple entanglements“My presence in a public space holding a notebook let alone a voice recorder or camera would cause immediate suspicion.”
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthnography in a time of upheaval – Egypt before and after the ‘Arab spring’Even within the narrower parameters of public spaces, debates which might lead to issues around accountability and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSitting on top of Egyptian civilisationGiving birth to a centre for liberal arts in a popular neighborhood of Cairo, which is covered in layers of stories,...