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Photographic Practices and the Egyptian Imaginary: Evidence of What? The Photographic Archive and Its Problematics

Heba Farid

This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/7
A Film Exploration of Sanayeh, a Neighbothood of Beirut

Pascale Feghali

The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.
Doing Anthropology of Visual Culture and Doing Anthropology Visually: A Film Exploration of Sanayeh, a Neighborhood of Beirut

Pascale Feghali

This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/15
Return Migration and the Burden of Borders

Sari Hanafi

This monograph centers on the effort to understand the issue of return migration to Palestine from a sociological point of view. Six papers examine various human situations among Palestinians, ranging from villages that have been divided by borders such as the Green Line to populations of Palestinian origin that have been cut off from their roots in Palestine and are now seeking to establish their lives elsewhere. The common theme is the role of borders and boundaries—those that people seek to cross and those that the wider political processes establish around existing populations. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 1.
Virtual and real returns

Sari Hanafi

This monograph centers on the effort to understand the issue of return migration to Palestine from a sociological point of view. Six papers examine various human situations among Palestinians, ranging from villages that have been divided by borders such as the Green Line to populations of Palestinian origin that have been cut off from their roots in Palestine and are now seeking to establish their lives elsewhere. The common theme is the role of borders and boundaries—those that people seek to cross and those that the wider political processes establish around existing populations. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 1.
On the horror of phenomenology: Lovecraft and Husserl

Graham Harman

In a dismissive review of a recent anthology on Schelling, Andrew Bowie accuses two authors of a style he ‘increasingly’ thinks of as ‘continental science fiction’. There is room for further increase in Bowie’s thinking. With his implication that science fiction belongs to the juvenile or the unhinged, Bowie enforces a sad limitation on mental experiment. For nothing resembles science fiction more than philosophy does — unless it be science itself. From its dawning in ancient Greece, philosophy has been the asylum of strange notions: a cosmic justice fusing opposites into a restored whole; a series of emanations from fixed stars to the moon to the prophets; divine intervention in the movement of human hands and legs; trees and diamonds with infinite parallel attributes, only two of them known; insular monads sparkling like mirrors and attached to tiny bodies built from chains of other monads; and the eternal recurrence of every least event. While the dismal consensus that such speculation belongs to the past is bolstered by the poor imagination of some philosophers, it finds no support among working scientists, who grow increasingly wild in their visions. Even a cursory glance at the physics literature reveals a discipline bewitched by strange attractors, degenerate topologies, black holes filled with alternate worlds, holograms generating an illusory third dimension, and matter composed of vibrant ten-dimensional strings. Mathematics, unconstrained by empirical data, has long been still bolder in its gambles. Nor can it be said that science fiction is a marginal feature of literature itself. Long before the mighty crabs and squids of Lovecraft and the tribunals of Kafka, we had Shakespeare’s witches and ghosts, Mt. Purgatory in the Pacific, the Cyclops in the Mediterranean, and the Sphinx tormenting the north of Greece.
Epistemology of Photographic Evidence: A Response

Angela Harutyunyan

The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.
Photographic Practices and the Egyptian Imaginary: Epistemology of Photographic Evidence: A Response

Angela Harutyunyan

This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/9
Political and social protest in Egypt

Nicholas S. Hopkins

Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/3
Doing Anthropology of Visual Culture and Doing Anthropology Visually: Past and Future Pathways of Culture: Cinematic Representations of Kurds and the Kurdish Issue in Turkish Media Worlds

Suncem Kocer

This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/14
Past and Future Pathways of Culture: Cinematic Representations of Kurds and the Kurdish Issue in Turkish Media Worlds

Suncem Kocer

The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.
Judges as reform advocates: a lost battle?

Nathalie Bernard Maugiron

Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/7
The Muslim Brotherhood: contradictions and transformations

Sameh Naguib

Cairo Papers in Social Science first appeared in 1977, the year that witnessed the famous bread riots in Egypt. As the journal celebrates its 30th anniversary, Egypt also seems to be at a crossroads, as new forms of protest have been developing with the aim of challenging the existing order and inducing change. This issue includes a collection of papers delivered at Cairo Papers 30th Anniversary Symposium that deal with the different protest groups that have been active in Egypt in the last three decades, including the Kefaya movement, the Negm-Imam phenomenon, the feminist movement, Coptic activism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as workers' protests, rural resistance, and the judges' call for reform. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 2/12
A Place Called Tahrir

Sabelo Narasimhan

The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.
January 25: Visual Knowledge of an Event - A Place Called Tahrir

Sabelo Narasimhan

This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/5
Crossing borders, retaining boundaries

Cedric Parizot

This monograph centers on the effort to understand the issue of return migration to Palestine from a sociological point of view. Six papers examine various human situations among Palestinians, ranging from villages that have been divided by borders such as the Green Line to populations of Palestinian origin that have been cut off from their roots in Palestine and are now seeking to establish their lives elsewhere. The common theme is the role of borders and boundaries—those that people seek to cross and those that the wider political processes establish around existing populations. Cairo Papers Vol. 29, No. 1.
Historical orientations to the study of family change: Ideational forces considered

Hoda Rashad

Have Western ways of understanding family ties and family change affected perceptions about these human ties in Middle Eastern populations? Have Western understandings of family also affected how people in Middle Eastern cultures understand themselves? The essays in this collection address questions like these, which academics have only recently begun to ask.
Historical orientations to the study of family change: Ideational forces considered

Hoda Rashad

Have Western ways of understanding family ties and family change affected perceptions about these human ties in Middle Eastern populations? Have Western understandings of family also affected how people in Middle Eastern cultures understand themselves? The essays in this collection address questions like these, which academics have only recently begun to ask.
Galilee vs. Jerusalem: Space and Temporality in Mark's Gospel

Michael Reimer

The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.
Beyond the Written: Visual Productions and Sensory Knowledge

Hanan Sabea and Mark R. Westmoreland

This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/4
Beyond the Written: Visual Productions and Sensory Knowledge

Hanan Sabea and Mark R. Westmoreland

The third and forth of four issues in volume 31. This issue covers topics such as visual anthropology and activism art. Contributors include: Mona Abaza, Diana Allan, Yasser Alwan, Heba Farid, Pascale Fehali, Fadwa el Guindi, Angela Harutyunyan, Suncem Kocer, Sabelo Narasimhan, Elizabeth Wickett.
The Serpent and the Ship: Imaginatioin, Memory, and Rhetoric in Early Byzantine Constantinople

A.C.S. Saunders

The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.
The Features and Functions of Certain Tombs in Cairo, Medina, and Aswan

Mark Sedgwick

The first of four issues in volume 31, covering topics of sacred spaces and human perspectives. Contributors include: Richard Byford, Cassandra R. Chambliss, Anna di Marco, Michael Reimer, ACS Saunders, Mark Sedgwick, Robert Switzer.
The Empowerment of Women: Rights and Entitlements in Arab Worlds

Hania Sholkamy

Since the late 1990s rights-based approaches (RBAs) in development have been advanced by the major institutional development actors such as the UN, multilateral and bilateral agencies, and international NGOs. A number of critiques of RBAs have emerged that question whether the emancipatory potential of rights discourse and practice will be realized within development. These critiques, however, have not sufficiently questioned the implication of rights discourse and practice for advancing a gender equality agenda and women 's autonomy. This is an area that needs considerable research, and this publication explores some of the key issues at stake. The publication, based on contributions from different regions of the world, sheds light on the problematic of delivering on rights in a way that treats and sees women as entities in themselves and worthy of rights, and not simply in relation to a man and as subordinate within gender relations. The authors remind us that in order to practice rights, we need on the one hand to side with, promote and learn from the awareness of those deprived of rights, because it is their agency that will fuel and drive the struggle for rights. On the other hand, rights-based practice requires a politically engaged research, activist and development community in order to promote gender equality.
Why Kin marriages? Rationales in rural Upper Egypt

Hania Sholkamy

Have Western ways of understanding family ties and family change affected perceptions about these human ties in Middle Eastern populations? Have Western understandings of family also affected how people in Middle Eastern cultures understand themselves? The essays in this collection address questions like these, which academics have only recently begun to ask.