CILAS offline/online Fall Cycle 2026 short courses

We invite you to book your places and join us in CILAS offline/online Fall Cycle 2026, with short courses running for six to eight weeks.

Application deadline: November 7, 2026. The cycle starts on November 14, 2026. Each course’s first meeting is listed on its page.

Apply for the Fall Cycle

Explore the course descriptions, weekly outlines, and meeting details below. Please feel free to share whatever is on your mind; you can reach us via email at [email protected] or through Facebook.

Short Course

Minds, Machines and Meaning

Explore intelligence, knowledge, creativity, work, and human meaning through philosophical debates about AI.

SSherif Salem

Short Course

Art District or Art Washing?

Examine artwashing and displacement, and imagine cultural development rooted in community agency and belonging.

CCyren Naôs

Short Course

Economies of Refusal

Explore alternatives to capitalism through economic anthropology, Global South Marxism, Black feminism, and radical fiction.

EEman Shehata

Short Course

Egypt vs. Masr

Use listening and small-scale sound ethnography to investigate class, identity, and urban life in Cairo.

SShiva Bayat

Short Course

Medical Anthropology and Doing Social Research

Study health, culture, and inequality while learning tools for person-centered social research.

SSohayla El Fakahany

Short Course

Of Planetary Boundaries and Limitless Humans

Explore planetary limits, food systems, barriers to change, and possible futures for Egypt and the wider world.

NNicolas Tremblay

Short Course

Psychoanalysis Is an Antiphilosophy

Read Freud and Lacan to explore how psychoanalysis challenges philosophical mastery and the desire to know everything.

MMuhammad Al-Hinnawi

Short Course

Seeing the Unseen

Investigate how visual attention shapes perception, art, media, technology, and everyday ethical decisions.

IIffat Rais