Hussein El-Hag
حسين الحاج
Hussein El-Hajj is a cultural activist and researcher in the field of radical pedagogy and alternative higher education. From 2015 to 2017 he worked as a librarian at the Cairo Contemporary Image Collective. He is currently the coordinator of the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Alexandria (CILAS Alex) where he also teaches translation of the humanities and social sciences. He has published an Arabic-language poetry collection, Tuyuf / Spectres (2015). His published translations include A User's Guide to Demanding the Impossible by Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Yadawia for handmade books, 2018) and two online anthologies (2018) on alternative higher education in association with CILAS: On the Emergence of Pigeon Towers and a collection of collaborative student translations, Education as Translation. At CILAS Alex, he will serve as the teaching fellow for the Skills Lab's theoretical accompaniment.
Translations and other work
حول كيفية قراءة الأعمال النظرية
أحد الأسئلة الكبرى التي يطرحها الناس «ماذا يجب أن أقرأ؟» قد يكون السؤال متعلقًا بموضوع: ماذا يجب أن أقرأ لأعرف عن الشيوعية المجالسية؟ وقد يكون السؤال عن الطريقة…
استعادة حريتنا في التعلم
منذ عدة سنوات، بدأنا في رصد رد فعل جذري ضد التعليم والمدارس في القرى والأحياء وبخاصة بين السكان الأصليين. وقد أغلق بعضهم مدارسهم وسرحوا مدرسيها، بينما تجنب…
التعافي من داء الدبلومات
أيها الأصدقاء،
On Ignorance
Presented here are some reflections on ignorance; perhaps the problem of our time, perhaps the solution. I begin by considering, as problem, a kind of ignorance…
24 min
Equality and Intimacy: An Imaginary Construction
Jacques Rancière's The Ignorant Schoolmaster presents 19th-century educator Jacotot's "universal" or "emancipatory teaching." Such teaching presupposes a…
23 min
Playing Our Selves: An Aesthetic Education for the Twenty-First Century
What is the role of education in a time of counterrevolution? Friedrich Schiller’s prescription in On the Aesthetic Education of Man, after the hopes of the…
20 min
