Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/MEN17FDC د.مصطفى النمر- أستاذ مساعد بكلية الإعلام والاتصال، جامعة الإمام بالرياض، المملكة العربية السعودية. صدر مؤخراً عن دار العربي للنشر والتوزيع بالقاهرة كتاباً تحت عنوان: الدراما الأجنبية وانحرافات المراهقين السلوكية، يستعرض فيه الباحث دراسة علمية ترصد العلاقة بين تأثير الدراما الأجنبية والبناء الثقافى لدى المراهقين، حيث ذهب الكتاب …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/RARB17RA In an article published on December 17, 2014, Surti Singh, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo (AUC), wrote that “a new set of questions is crystallizing about the role of art in contemporary Egypt” and posed the following questions: “Can …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/CG17TIPD  Abstract The article deciphers the symbolic deconstruction of the Israeli Indignant Protest (2011–2012) on behalf of the local cultural simulacrum—based on Zionist narratives of Judaism. It presents, through the subjective eye of a participant observer, the symbolic paradigm by which the protest opened its way …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/GA1710AF The following is an excerpt from the anthology Ten Arab Filmmakers edited by Josef Gugler and published by Indiana University Press (2015). Mohamed Chouikh occupies a key position as a kind of relay between the post-colonial, idealized Algeria of the 1960s and what one might …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/AFH17FRI Anna Rousillion’s feature documentary I Am the People follows Farraj and his family through four tumultuous years in Egyptian history, beginning just before revolution and chronicling their lives in its aftermath. Farraj, the film’s protagonist, is a wiry farmer in the southern province of Luxor, …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/SAEB17TD   د. ثريا أحمد البدوى- أستاذ بكلية الإعلام، جامعة القاهرة يرتكز مفهوم الهوية الاجتماعية على السياق الثقافي والاجتماعي للمجتمع؛ حيث ترتبط عملية تعزيز الهوية بقنوات التنشئة الاجتماعية وتكنولوجيا الاتصال المجتمعية اللذين يسهمان فى الحفاظ على تماسك المجتمع، ويقويان الشعور بالانتماء، ويرفعان من معدلات المشاركة النشطة. فى …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/CEK17SCF This essay is part of an ethnographic study of Egyptian film production conducted between August 2013 and September 2015. The study is centered on participant observation within two main film companies, New Century Film Production and Al-Batrik Art Production, in addition to interviews conducted with …

Eshtebak (Clash) defies convenient stereotypes of heroes and villains. There are no comfortable answers, and there is no feel-good storyline; it is unapologetically raw and gritty. Clash compels audiences to doubt their perceptions of conflict and political antagonism, a vexing challenge for an Egyptian public accustomed to propagandist narratives on …

I am writing a book that will be called Confronting Terrorism. It examines the evolution of terrorism that culminates, for now, in the Islamic State’s ability to hold and “govern” substantial amounts of territory. This requires me to immerse myself in both the literature of terrorism and to view, from a distance, the nasty realities of this topic. I do not pretend to be as intimately involved as are the people who must live under terrorism’s darkest shadows every day. But I think a lot about how terrorism’s presence changes our world...

One way of getting to the “root causes” of terrorism and religious extremism in the Middle East is to examine the thinking of the mother organization of all groups and movements espousing violence and terrorism. Fortunately, the history of the Muslim Brothers is well researched. The revelations of the organization reflect a great deal of inconsistencies between the general and the specific: public pronouncements and specific documents, theory and practice, English and Arabic.