Ramy Essam, Mona Baker

Cairo: September 2014

January 31, 2015 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt, Translating Dissent, Wiam El-Tamami

WIAM EL-TAMAMI 28 JANUARY 2015 I left Cairo on 19 April 2014. I was so glad to have left, so relieved and slightly disbelieving that I had finally loosened myself from the grip of Al-Qaahira – in Arabic the name, quite fittingly, means ‘The Oppressor’, ‘The Crusher’, ‘The Vanquisheress’. I knew that I could not be there then, but that I was

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Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Alia Mosallam, Bassem Youssef, Belal Fadl, Hosni Mubarak, Port Said massacre, Protest Law, Ramy Essam, Sanaa Seif, Sarah Carr, Yara Sallam, Yosri Fouda

Is Cairene Graffiti Losing Momentum?

January 27, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Culture, Egypt, Street Art

By Mona Abaza, 25 January 2015 Clearly Cairene graffiti has lost momentum during this year. Having been the faithful barometer of the revolution over the past three years, graffiti has recently faced transmutations and drawbacks that run parallel with the political process of restoring “order” in the street. The heartbreaking story of the recent death of a cheerful and bright

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Ahmed Douma, Alaa Abdel Fattah, Alain Gresh, Ammar Abu Bakr, April 6 movement, Basma Abdel Aziz, Chahinaz Gheith, Ganzeer, graffiti, Hisham Rizq, Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Mona Abaza, Omar Nagati, Ramy Essam, Sanaa Seif, Shaimaa El Sabagh, Sherief Gaber, street vendors, Yara Sallam