Courses
310 courses since 2014
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Keys to Reading Ibn ‘Arabī
This course introduces students to Ibn ‘Arabī, the Andalusian Muslim mystic of the 12th/13th century (1165-1240), who is considered the Grand Sheikh of the living Sufi tradition, and author of the possibly, largest Muslim Esoteric Encyclopaedia al-Futūḥat al-Makkīya (The Mecca…
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“I curse my own child but I hate whoever says Amen”
A History of the Family in the Modern Middle East
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Good Feminist, Bad Feminist, Happy Feminist
In Good Feminist, Bad Feminist, Happy Feminist, Mariam Diefallah explores the possibility of finding joy in feminist activism. Throughout this twelve-week journey, the course will explore various themes, such as anger, profanity, intimacy, and witchcraft, assembling a toolbox…
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Broken Harmonies: Music and Philosophy in the 20th Century
How does music and philosophy relate to each other? And what does this relation might mean for us in everyday life? Even if it means something, isn’t reading music through philosophy like philosophizing about art and that’s it? What if we tried to read philosophy through music…
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An Introduction to Popular Egyptian Cinema: Youth!
Looking at popular Egyptian cinema from the post-1952 period until the turn of the millennium, this course aims to situate a selected number of films socio-historically and aesthetically. Participants will gain fluency in the film’s unique language, both from a historical and…
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An Introduction to New Materialisms: Bodies, Objects, and Movement
Modernity designed the hu-Man as a mastermind over the material world. But what if we think of ourselves as becoming animal, bacteria, a virus, insect, a cyborg, art, or a figure of the impossible? How can the human itself become a leakage rather than a category?
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Africa urbanising
This course engages debates in contemporary neoliberal urbanism with a particular focus on African cities. It questions the colonially-mediated modern conceptual frameworks that undergird the field of urban studies. It suggests to rethink the intimate connection between the de…
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"ألفين سنة ويفضل كلامي جميل": تاريخ شعر العامية المصرية في القرن العشرين وحتى اليوم
تُؤْثَر عن أمير الشعراء أحمد شوقي عبارة تقول «أخشى على العربية من بيرم». ورغم أن بيرم التونسي لم يكن شاعر العامية الوحيد في مصر، إلا أنه ترك بصمة في الشعر المصري أثرت بعمق في المجتمع المصري حينذاك وفي ولادة أجيال جديدة من شعراء العامية المصرية، حتى قال اﻷديب يحيى حقي عن رباعيا…
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يوميات دراجة سكندرية
يدور هذا المساق حول الدراجة كوسيلة للحركة بمعناها المكاني والإجتماعي. نبحث معاً في السياق التاريخي والجغرافي لتطور التنقل وكيف أثرت أشكال الحركة المختلفة على مدننا وإيقاع حياتنا في المدينة وكيف ظلت الدراجة في وسط هذه التغيرات تعيد تعريف نفسها كرمز لأفكار متضادة أحياناً مثل ظهو…
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Youth Madness
يمثل مساق "جنون الشباب" مقدمة في الدراسات السينمائية ومحاولة لمشاهدة أفلام ونشر نصوص تأخذ ثقافتنا السينمائية إلى مساحات جديدة. تعكس اختيارات الأفلام التي يحتويها المنهج اهتمام بتمثيل الشباب في الأفلام المصرية عبر حقب زمنية مختلفة. يتناول المنهج من خلال التحليل النقدي بعض أهم ا…
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Encountering the State: Anthropological Perspectives
The question of what is the state and how it operates has always been central to social sciences as much as the state itself has been central to living in modern societies. However, political anthropology had traditionally steered away from these discussions, as it studied soc…
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Why do I Love You? (The Structures of The Beautiful)
"Why do I Love You? (The Structures of The Beautiful)" is a theoretical course aimed at understanding why we think the things that are beautiful are beautiful and what this has to do with art. The Enlightenment lead to a strict categorization of the beautiful as an autonomous…
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Performing Fiction not enough without serendipity quest
The course aims to create a space for experimentation and imagination. Standing on the hypothesis of fiction as a reality, and being skeptical towards reality as a value - If reality does exist, fiction isn’t alternative but it is the other reality - Questioning if serendipity…
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Matte مصر Tropicália
The course has as the main focus a collective learning. It is an experiment in itself, practicing openness, care and listening, with a total engagement with ourselves and the conversations which will happen. To exercise this philosophy of decolonization we will practice and st…
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المترجم فاعلًا: مقدمة في دراسات الترجمة
نعرف جميعًا أن مترجم الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية ينبغي أن يكون متسلحًا بعلم وفير، ومعرفة تامة باللغة الأصلية واللغة المستهدفة، وثقافة واسعة تخص النص الذي يعمل عليه، وقراءة واسعة لآداب اللغتين، ومعرفة بعلوم اللغة والاجتماع والفلسفة. ولكن منذ التسعينيات من القرن العشرين…
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The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard
In this course we will read, interpret, and discuss the writings of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in provoking, reflective, yet relaxed sessions over tea and coffee. In a context where people all over the globalizing world are facing existential questions with regards t…
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The “Development of Underdevelopment”
Progress and development have captured the imaginations of thinkers and world leaders for centuries. Inspired by a broad range of theories about the human condition from economic rationality to social and psychological evolution theories, the race towards progress has justifie…
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The History of Modern Education in Egypt (1805-1970)
Everyone agrees that the state of our education is terrible, but few know precisely how it came into being. This course is an invitation to look more closely at our education system and to scrutinize it. Specifically, we analyze concepts such as nationalism, colonialism and mo…
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Social Determinants of Health
This course will critically explore the fundamental drivers of health that arise from social conditions. Situated at the intersection of social, behavioral and life sciences, course material will interrogate the myriad ways in which culture, race/ethnicity, gender, poverty, an…
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