Gallows Humor: Political Satire in Sisi’s Egypt

Guernica, 15 May 2014 By Jonathan Guyer The country’s cartoonists find creative ways to defy censors. His face is almost everywhere. With a stoic gaze and a stately uniform, Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi looks out from magazine covers displayed at Cairo’s corner newsstands and posters decorating gas stations in sleepy Red Sea towns. Following the military’s ouster of the Muslim

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The Writing on Egypt’s Walls

14 August 2013, The New Yorker By Jonathan Guyer   n Egypt, political cartoons leap off the page and into public places, from street art to high-class galleries, on leaflets and TV programs. At the Muslim Brotherhood’s sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya, in the Nasr City neighborhood of Cairo, where protesters spent more than a month protesting the ouster of President

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Picturing Egypt’s Next President

22 May 2014, The New Yorker By Jonathan Guyer Everybody knows who Egypt’s next President will be. Elections are scheduled for May 26th and 27th, almost a year after Mohamed Morsi was ousted in a coup led by the retired general Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, in what has been painted as a second revolution. With campaigning in overdrive, Sisi met with

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Dubbing, Film and Performance: Uncanny Encounters

By Charlotte Bosseaux Series: New Trends in Translation Studies – Volume 16 Year of Publication: 2015   Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2015. VIII, 242 pp., 3 tables ISBN 978-3-0343-0235-7 pb. (Softcover)     Book synopsis Research on dubbing in audiovisual productions has been prolific in the past few decades, which has helped

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Fiction and Colonial Identities: Arsène Lupin in Arabic

Middle Eastern Literatures Volume 13, Issue 2, 2010, pages 191-210 Special Issue:   Arabic Literature in Egypt at the Beginning of the 20th Century in Search of New Aesthetics: Al-Muwaylihi and Contemporaries DOI:  10.1080/1475262X.2010.487317 Samah Selim Along with Ponson du Terrail’s Rocambole and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin is one of the most famous popular fiction figures in the

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Toward a New Literary History

Samah Selim Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; e-mail: sselim@rci.rutgers.edu International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 43 / Issue 04 / November 2011, pp 734-736 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743811000973 (About DOI), Published online: 09 November 2011 The past twenty years witnessed a dramatic transformation in Arabic literature studies

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Literature and Revolution

Samah Selim Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; e-mail: sselim@rci.rutgers.edu International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 43 / Issue 03 / August 2011, pp 385-386 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743811000456 (About DOI), Published online: 26 July 2011   The three-week uprising in Egypt that ended with the removal of

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11 Rules and 3 Award-winning Translations from Samah Selim

BY MLYNXQUALEY on MARCH 8, 2012 • ( 2 ) The “10 rules” series resumes with award-winning translator Dr. Samah Selim. Eleven Rules 1. Think about register. Every essay, novel or story projects a particular and unique language register. A really important part of translating fiction is capturing and rendering that register in English. It’s easy to fall into the trap of overly stiff or archaic prose on

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