In Love with the Ugly Face of Alexandria
(This is the beginning of an article I’m preparing for publication that is called “Where is Alexandria: Myths of the City and the Anti-City in Alexandria after Cosmopolitanism.…
Author: Samuli Schielke
In Love with the Ugly Face of Alexandria
(This is the beginning of an article I’m preparing for publication that is called “Where is Alexandria: Myths of the City and the Anti-City in Alexandria after Cosmopolitanism.…
Stability as a Utopia: Revisiting Egyptian youth as they grow older, and the future tense as time passes
“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
Stability as a Utopia: Revisiting Egyptian youth as they grow older, and the future tense as time passes
“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
Dreaming of the Inevitable – A Lecture by Samuli Schielke
Today we are pleased to share this talk by our ‘Allie’ Samuli Schielke. The talk is titled ‘Dreaming of the Inevitable: How Money, Morals and Destiny Come Together When Young Egyptia…
In defence of our universal double standards
The two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and mutual accusations about grief, identity, and double standards.…
A book of unfinished theories 2015-06-17 11:24:00
I’m no longer updating this blog. But please look at these new works by me that deal with Egypt in the time of revolution and counter-revolution: – Buy…
A book of unfinished theories 2015-06-17 10:24:00
I’m no longer updating this blog. But please look at these new works by me that deal with Egypt in the time of revolution and counter-revolution: – Buy…
"There will be blood"
[edit 2017: download and read the final, officially published version of this essay here: http://www.samuli-schielke.de/schielke_there_will_be_blood__middle_east_critique_2017_final.pdf] I stopped upda…
"There will be blood"
[edit 2017: download and read the final, officially published version of this essay here: http://www.samuli-schielke.de/schielke_there_will_be_blood__middle_east_critique_2017_final.pdf] I stopped upda…
Seize the day
On Saturday evening, I met with a group of men, most of them fishermen and workers, in a café in the village in the Nile Delta which I…
Seize the day
On Saturday evening, I met with a group of men, most of them fishermen and workers, in a café in the village in the Nile Delta which I…
In the secret capital
“Our village? If the revolution ever reaches our village, then there really is a revolution in Egypt.” These are the words of Mahrus, a supporter of the revolution…
In the secret capital
“Our village? If the revolution ever reaches our village, then there really is a revolution in Egypt.” These are the words of Mahrus, a supporter of the revolution…
The second anniversary
Two years have passed since the outbreak of the revolution in Egypt. Today, there is no end in sight. Since more than a week (I returned to Egypt…
The second anniversary
Two years have passed since the outbreak of the revolution in Egypt. Today, there is no end in sight. Since more than a week (I returned to Egypt…
After one hundred and a few days
Not yet Taking the minibus is one of the best ways to know the general mood in Egypt. Soon after my return to Egypt two weeks ago to…
After one hundred and a few days
Not yet Taking the minibus is one of the best ways to know the general mood in Egypt. Soon after my return to Egypt two weeks ago to…
Some social science of the presidential elections
I have usually avoided writing on this blog when not in Egypt, because its value, if any, lies in the proximity to events, moods, and everyday encounters as…
Some social science of the presidential elections
I have usually avoided writing on this blog when not in Egypt, because its value, if any, lies in the proximity to events, moods, and everyday encounters as…
The presidential theatre
(Addition, 15 April in the morning: Oh the pleasure of getting it all wrong again. Just hours after I wrote this note, the supreme electoral council excluded Omar…
The presidential theatre
(Addition, 15 April in the morning: Oh the pleasure of getting it all wrong again. Just hours after I wrote this note, the supreme electoral council excluded Omar…
Amshir
Today is the last day of the Coptic month of Amshir, a month that is known for stormy and unpredictable weather, bringing cold weather in one day and…
Amshir
Today is the last day of the Coptic month of Amshir, a month that is known for stormy and unpredictable weather, bringing cold weather in one day and…