The third conversation of History Sounds is out! Listen to Andrew Simon tell @OlgaVerlato about the history of cassettes in Egypt… and enjoy some of the songs that filled them! borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2023/1/2…

New publication! Faisal Al-Asaad reflects on the Arabian Nights' potential to contribute to a burgeoning understanding of commercial or ‘precocious’ capitalism in the medieval Islamic and Indian Ocean world systems. borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2023/6/1…

In case you missed this —⁦@OlgaVerlato⁩ discusses 16th c. networks of manuscript and printing technologies and cultures across Italy and the Middle East and North Africa, and their modern afterlives in Egypt during the French occupation borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2023/8/9…

“As is clear from the title…NOW (2023), as in the protest slogan “[what do we want?] Justice! [when do we want it?] NOW!”—Sikander asks how time can be incorporated into artistic work”. @MisraNiyati writes of the power of Shahzia Sikander’s works. Read: borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2023/10/…

As farmers push through barricades to enter Delhi once again, a conversation from exactly three years ago still remains relevant. It shows how the farmers protest captures a longer genealogy of resistance against Dilliye. google.com/amp/s/borderli…

Sharad Chari engages with Ajay Skaria's essay in the first response from the viewpoint of a geographer, where he offers a "'ham-fisted' Marxist approach" which "refuses to separate working hands from theoretical elaboration". borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/2/2…

Michael E. Sawyer responds to Skaria by pointing out the problems with the implication that "an individual is somehow capable of extricating themselves from the totality of the context of their own moment in order to some type of unaffected supernumerary" borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/2/2…

Patricia Hayes adds to this conversation by reflecting on a photograph which "suggested something fascinating about periodization/s and the complexities of colonial expansionism in relation to the internal turmoil of a country or region becoming a nation" borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/2/2…

This is a fantastic essay

The second instalment of Zeyad el Nabolsy (زياد النابلسي)'s interview with Carmen De Schryver is out! Carmen De Schryver and Zeyad El Nabolsy discuss how Hountondji's philosophy can shed light on contemporary debates about Enlightenment, Universality, and Postcolonialism. borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/4/2…

New publication out — This brilliant, innovative essay by ⁦Mariam Elashmawy⁩ explores the genre of taqriz (commendations) in the modern Egyptian press, unveiling the scholarly and affective “ego networks” that this genre forged and sustained. borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/10/…