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Portray: Women and Representation in the Middle East
In this course, we will examine the wide range of literature and media “representing” women in the Middle East and Muslim majority countries with a focus on the Arab world. We will be looking at both Western and Arab scholarship portraying “the Muslim/Arab/Middle Eastern woman…
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Pedagogy and Sustainable Architecture
A pedagogical approach to sustainable architecture: historicizing and documenting the case of New Gourna
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Mafish Faiydah? A Case Study on Myth and Silenced Voices
**Rationale:** Amid the independence negotiations with the British authorities, Sa'ad Zaghloul, the much praised nationalist leader of 1919 'revolution' said "mafish fayda"- no point- in reference to the complexity of the negotiation process. The story is true...at least acco…
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البناء التخيلي للمجتمع: اﻹقتصادات التحررية وتصور النماذج البديلة
عندما يتحدى المرء الحكمة المستقرة - القائلة بأن النظام اﻹقتصادي الراهن هو الوحيد الممكن - فإن أول رد فعل يحتمل أن يواجهه هو مطالبته بمخطط تفصيلي لكيفية عمل النظام البديل. من الناحية التاريخية يبدو هذا مضحكًا، فمنذ متى تأتّى للتحول اﻹجتماعي أن يحدث مطلقًا وفقًا لمخطط أي أحد؟ لك…
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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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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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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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