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Identity, Culture and Resistance
How does culture shape, reinforce and challenge individual and collective identities? How do power and hegemony operate within and through culture? What roles do culture and creative spaces play in maintaining, and more importantly, challenging hegemonic identities and politic…
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The food dilemma - navigating the diet jungle
Eating has become a complex matter that is full of choices. Each choice has consequences that goes beyond our plate and each diet is a statement. In this course we will examine the implications (ethical, environmental, health, economic, social and political) and promises of di…
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"فترة من الزمن": "استعمار مصر" وما أحدثه من تغيرات اجتماعية وثقافية
في سنة 1882، دخلت العساكر الإنجليزية إلى بر مصر لتبدأ بذلك اثنين وسبعين عامًا من الاحتلال العسكري، ولتتوج بذلك مجموعة من التغييرات الاجتماعية والثقافية والمؤسساتية، التي بدأت قبل 1882 ولم تنته بجلاء الإنجليز في 1954. وفي سنة 1907 أصدر الكاتب والمفكر محمد المويلحي تحفته الأدبي…
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Voice of the Artist
Focusing on Egypt and the Arabic speaking world, this course intends to explore the production and reception of artworks within the context of modernity, nation-building and post-colonialism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Class discussions will be informed by in-class analysi…
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Visual Anthropology: Film as a tool for research
Visual anthropology is a rather young discipline that offers creative methods that can cross the borders and limitations of traditional anthropology in order to question representations and to rethink our and other’s roles, values, norms, rituals, mythologies, and media practi…
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Roles and Rituals: Performativity in Contemporary Arts and Society
This 10 week course investigates the ways in which humans perform (both voluntarily and involuntarily) in daily life, in legal settings, and cultural contexts. Through analysing contemporary art practices, performance studies theories, and political/legal scenarios, we will in…
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Power and Space: Critical approaches to the built environment
Anthropologists and architects often use the term built environment to refer to the man-made habitats which we humans create and within which we conduct our daily lives such as streets and roads, dwellings, schools, hospitals, green spaces and common spaces. The term has grown…
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My Body is my Body
In this course, we will use our bodies as a starting point for creative practice. We start off with the assumption that at some point in our lives, we have been exiled from our bodies — accidentally or by force. To bridge that assumed estrangement, we will begin to probe our r…
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“The Weapon of Theory”: Critical Thought and Social Change
How does political and social theory respond to change? What can theory tell us about social change? Conversely, what can moments of upheaval, revolution, and political and social change tell us about the theories they were attached to? Is there an intellectual history for rev…
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In Preparation of a movie
Inspired by Roland Barthes' The Preparation of the Novel, this course intends to explore the first movements someone needs to make in order to start a movie project. Through wanderings, notations, drawings, rehearsals, and proposals, each student will prepare a range of materi…
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Growing food and wellbeing: gardening in the city
Increased awareness about healthy food and a desire to engage with nature, even within the city encourage more and more people to grow their own food. But how to start? This course will enable students to start their own vegetable garden on their balcony, rooftop or backyard.…
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Classical Chinese Philosophies
Chinese philosophy is said to have begun with the debate between the thinkers Kongzi (Confucius) and Mozi (Mencius) in the 6th century B.C.E. – a period when China consisted of numerous independent states. It was a time known as the “hundred schools” period (bai jia zhen ming)…
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Can We Talk About Love?
Following two years of continued personal and less personal losses, I was confronted with the idea of how can we come to understand love in our global, counter-global, post-human, post-politics world, specifically the context of Egypt in the aftermath of successive waves of ne…
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Archive Fever: Appropriation in Contemporary Art
The archive is not merely a repository of official records. It is an omnipresent linguistic and discursive system, a law of what can and cannot be said and a vast shapeless empire of images, sounds, documents and other material traces. Contemporary art has long been a sphere f…
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Reading Michael D. Jackson in Darb El-Labanna
Reading the work of Michael D. Jackson at CILAS, – an alternative space which supposedly challenge hegemonic practices- is an invitation to think critically and alternatively to what it means to give primacy to the immediacy to our lived experiences. Furthermore, it is space w…
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Skills Lab: monoculture broke my heart
The skills lab is typically a place for experimentation and testing. It is designed to run in parallel to the core curriculum, to interact with ideas about and studies of art, culture, humanities, and political ecology. The word skills is used in reference to the method of wo…
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حول اﻷيدولوجيات السياسية والممارسات الفنية
إذا صحت أية مقولة بخصوص القرن العشرين، فيمكن أن تكون أنه قرن الأيدولوجيات والسرديات الكبرى، وقد يقال اﻵن أن القرن الواحد والعشرين هو قرن موت اﻷيدولوجيا ونهاية السرديات الكبرى، بيد أننا نجد أن اﻷيدولوجيات لم تفنى حقًا، بل تحولت إلى صورة أكثر سيولة مما كانت عليه فحسب، وربما علين…
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Modern Science - Its Promises and Limitations
The core course in the Sciences takes a close a look at the promises and limitations of modern science. It does so by adopting historical, philosophical and sociological lenses on modern science. We will begin our journey by outlining the conventional accounts of Islamic Scien…
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رؤى العرب: بين الاستشراق والاستشراق معكوسًا
الهوية العربية عصية على الفهم في أفضل الأحوال ومشوهة في أسوأها. ما العرب؟ ما الذي يؤسس هويتهم؟ هل هي العروبة أم الإسلامية أم اللغة العربية نفسها؟ كل هذه الأسئلة سألها المفكرون العرب وأجابوا عليها إجابات متنوعة ومتراوحة بين الدينية المتشددة والعلمانية الشاملة. ويبدو أن كثيرًا…
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الوقوف مع الحالمون: عن اليوتويبا
يقدم هذا المساق نظرة عامة عن اليوتوبيا واليوتيوبية. يوتوبيا كلمة كان قد صاغها توماس مور في كتابه "يوتوبيا" الصادر عام 1516، لوصف مدينة مثالية تجري فيها احداث الرواية، و اشتقاق الجملة من اليونانية يعني مكان جيد غير موجود. ذهبت هذه الكلمة لتصبح نوع ادبي، يعكس أماكن جيدة (اليوتوب…
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