Last week, my wife Asmaa Essakouti was re-reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a class on censorship she teaches. I was reading over her shoulder and found it…
Wer erwartet hatte, ein deutsches Arbeitsgericht wäre kein Ort für Gerichtsaal-Dramen, wurde am vergangenen Dienstag eines Besseren belehrt. Fast fünf Stunden lang tagte das Arbeitsgericht Halle am 10…
I. 22nd century, another planet In an unfinished science fiction novel by Arkadi and Boris Strugatski, the hero of an earlier novel travels to an empire that in…
by Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Saad Shehata On 5 July, our new book Shared Margins: An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria will be published open access. While…
I have avoided saying anything about the Covid-19 crisis in my capacity as an anthropologist, because I think that anthropology is an empirical discipline, and if we have…
Vielleicht eignen sich Niederlagen besonders gut für politische Mythen, denn sie umgibt eine Aura von Reinheit. Sie sind unbesudelt von den Kompromissen und der Tagespolitik, die auf Siege…
Update: the long written version is now online: Samuli Schielke. 2019. “The power of God: Four proposals for an anthropological engagement.” ZMO Programmatic Texts, vol. 13. Social scientists…
Update: the long written version is now online: Samuli Schielke. 2019. “The power of God: Four proposals for an anthropological engagement.” ZMO Programmatic Texts, vol. 13. Social scientists…
In this lecture – which you find as a transcript and an audio link below – I think together some of my fieldwork in Egypt, and a critical…
In this lecture – which you find as a transcript and an audio link below – I think together some of my fieldwork in Egypt, and a critical…
Als feedback auf meinen kürzlich auf Zenith erschienenen Beitrag gegen Panikmache über Migration und sexuelle Gewalt, erhielt ich einen sehr interessanten Leserbrief von einem Kollegen aus einem ander…
Als feedback auf meinen kürzlich auf Zenith erschienenen Beitrag gegen Panikmache über Migration und sexuelle Gewalt, erhielt ich einen sehr interessanten Leserbrief von einem Kollegen aus einem ander…
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
This text by the poet Bassem Mohamed Abu Gweily whom I’m happy to call a friend, strikes me as exemplary of some new spiritual developments in Egypt after…
This text by the poet Bassem Mohamed Abu Gweily whom I’m happy to call a friend, strikes me as exemplary of some new spiritual developments in Egypt after…
[This is a fragment from an article and a book chapter that I’m working on right now and that hopefully will be published in a year or two.…
[This is a fragment from an article and a book chapter that I’m working on right now and that hopefully will be published in a year or two.…
هنا روابط لحواريت طويلين معي عن علم الأنثروبولوجيا وعن عملي العلمي على يوتيوب، الأول قام به أحمد يعد زايد في صالونه الفلسفي في الإسكمدرية في فبراير 2017 والكلام…
هنا روابط لحواريت طويلين معي عن علم الأنثروبولوجيا وعن عملي العلمي على يوتيوب، الأول قام به أحمد يعد زايد في صالونه الفلسفي في الإسكمدرية في فبراير 2017 والكلام…
[Update 16 April 2018: The complete, final version of the entire photo essay is now published and can be downloaded here: http://www.samuli-schielke.de/CityOfWalls_SamuliSchielke_in_EverydayAlexandria…
[Update 16 April 2018: The complete, final version of the entire photo essay is now published and can be downloaded here: http://www.samuli-schielke.de/CityOfWalls_SamuliSchielke_in_EverydayAlexandria…
Recently I attended a public lecture by Douglas Blum, a political scientist (with ambitions to be a cultural sociologist) who is involved in youth studies. He told that…
Recently I attended a public lecture by Douglas Blum, a political scientist (with ambitions to be a cultural sociologist) who is involved in youth studies. He told that…