On Thursday, I will publish a review of Frederick Wiseman’s 1978 documentary 'Sinai Field Mission' on my Substack barracks.substack.com
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In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation. My book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt
so excited for Nada Elia’s Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms, out from @versobooks.bsky.social on October 6. writers and reviewers let me know if you’d like an early copy!
From Marassi to Bardawil: Who Owns Egypt’s Shores?
From Marassi to Bardawil: Who Owns Egypt’s Shores?
Egypt Security Sector Report
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Next Thursday, I'm starting a mini-weekly series on my Substack about the Egyptian Army on Screen, discussing the military's appearance in pop culture Subscribe to read: barracks.substack.com
Where was Egypt’s air defense system? Why wasn’t the drone shot down in Damietta? The answer is simple. We have a fragmented, chaotic system that neither synchronizes nor is interoperable.
Fragmented Skies
Egypt Security Sector Report
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When the Khedive Decorated Egypt’s Invaders
When the Khedive Decorated Egypt’s Invaders
A Bronze Star With a Very Dark Story
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Matt Kaminsky channels the collective fantasy in his photo.
New issue of the Egypt Security Sectot Report coming out Monday
This coming Thursday I'll be concluding my weekly mini-series on the history of the Egyptian army in colonial Sudan barracks.substack.com/t/egyptian-a...
I bought a medal struck by Khedive Tawfiq to honor the foreign troops who crushed the ʿUrabi revolt, bombarded Alexandria, and inaugurated the occupation. A small, handsome artifact of collaboration, and a state narrative cast in bronze. New post Thursday. Subscribe to read! barracks.substack.com
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My review of Genocide in Libya open.substack.com/pub/fathel/p...
Review of Genocide in Libya: Shar, A Hidden Colonial History by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida (Routledge)
In Genocide in Libya through decades of oral history and archival research, Ali Abdullaftif Ahmida traces the history of the Shar (evil in Arabic).
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Shipments of oil from Yanbu (on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Coast) since March.
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This week’s issue includes reports on the fallout from the regional war on Egypt’s economy, the military’s business empire, arms imports, the militarization of education, and police crackdowns on dissent.
Army Economic Expansion Continues Unabated
Egypt Security Sector Report
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20 January 2011, five days before the outbreak of the Egyptian uprising: Time Magazine: After Tunisia: Why Egypt Isn't Ready to Have Its Own Revolution
After Tunisia: Why Egypt Isn't Ready to Have Its Own Revolution
Many Arabs across the Middle East are looking to events in Tunisia for inspiration. It is the first of the region's dictatorships to fall at...
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From a settlers WhatsApp group The text in the message was: " no new outposts, no more promises for more housing units, we want to see blood. No consolation without revenge!"
New issue of my weekly Egypt Security Sector Report is coming out on Monday
My longtime friend and comrade Ashraf Omar still languishes in jail
CPJ, partners demand release of Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar on arrest anniversary - Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to mark Ashraf Omar’s second arrest anniversary by calling for his immediate release. In the letter, the signatories voic...
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Argentina played football with Israeli characteristics. They act like thugs, think they are entitled to win, have the authorities throw games for them, and then whine when they don't win.
Shaykh Tahnun of Abu Dhabi invested half a billion in Trump's crypto company and in return received the Nvidia chip to develop its own AI. CIA station chief in the UAE and Bret McGurk facilitated this. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
American bayonets confront participants in the Poor People’s Campaign, as reported by Egypt’s Akher Saa magazine on June 26, 1968.
