Gathered below for your perusing pleasure is a collection of our most recent 2013 book award recipients. Most of the titles below were published within the last few years and represent a full spectrum of disciplines from business, to literature, to law. Congratulations to our …
Joel Beinin offers the last word in our week-long blog series on the Egyptian uprising. by JOEL BEININ When the popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak erupted on January 25, 2011, I followed the events from my television and computer screens at Stanford, feeling that I …
How the Tahrir protests escalated and how the Muslim Brotherhood fell out of favor. a Q&A with SAMER SHEHATA Q: Three years ago, what do you think Egyptians envisioned for their political future? What brought them to Tahrir? SHEHATA: Of course, during the initial days …
This guest post by Professor of History, Nancy Reynolds considers the commodities that became prominent rallying icons during the 2011 Egyptian uprising. One of the most trenchant calls of Egyptian protesters since the January 25th uprising has been to make visible the invisible forces of …
Professor of International Relations, Laurie Brand, discusses the political significance of claiming the term “revolution”—what it means to those with power and those who contest it. As autocrats in the Middle East and North Africa began to tremble and tumble with the diffusion of regional …
Author and anthropology professor, Jessica Winegar, penned this guest post on the symbols of Egypt’s uprising. All photos featured in this week’s blog series, including those seen here, are courtesty of her. On February 2, 2011—nine days into the uprising that toppled President Mubarak—the once …
This Saturday, January 25th marks the three-year anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising. Touted as the “Day of Anger,” these protests heralded the end of a regime and ushered in a new era of tumult for the Egyptian people, whose political future still remains unclear today. …
Sometimes it’s art for art’s sake. Sometimes it’s an experiment in the marriage of content and form. Once it was an artisanal niche, but today it’s trickling into the mainstream. We’re talking about book art—that is, a craft that considers the tangible book as more …
