Oppression is not a point of view
By julietomlin March 30, 2011, Frontline Club British-Egyptian actor and producer Khalid Abdalla flew from London to Egypt soon after it became clear that the protests of 25 January were gathering momentum and was there for the Friday ‘Day of anger’ on 28 January. The Kite Runner star, whose other credits include Green Zone and In the Last Days of the City, was memorably interviewed from
» Read moreFebruary 26, 2014, Vice by Jared Malsin Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla is one of the chief protagonists in the documentary The Square, which was nominated earlier this month for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His new film, In the Last Days of the City, is going to be even better. Last Days tells a story that roughly echoes Khalid’s own life: It’s the
» Read morePublished on Feb 23, 2014 Interviewed and filmed for The Insider AUC by Shaheer Shaheen.
» Read moreOn prisons as sites of violations, extremism and boredom Friday, August 21, 2015 By Ahdaf Souief Alaa Abd El Fattah, outspoken software tecchie, blogger and political activist, has spoken to the media for the first time since he began serving his latest sentence at Tora Prison. Abd El Fattah is serving a five-year prison sentence for being at a civil gathering in
» Read moreChannel 4 News, 14 August 2013 Actor and director Khalid Abdalla gives his personal response to the deadly violence gripping Egypt following operations to clear pro-Morsi camps in Cairo. I’m disgusted by the blood, and resisting falling prey to a polarised narrative. I don’t believe the sit-in should have been cleared, but I’m against what the sit-in stands for.
» Read more16 August 2013 Both the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood are “wrong” and “fundamentally fascist organisations”, an Egyptian actor and activist has claimed. Khalid Abdalla, known to western audiences for his roles in The Kite Runner and United 93, told the BBC’s Mishal Husain the he “rejected the binaries” being presented – the choice between the two organisations –
» Read moreThe British-born actor found success in United 93 and The Kite Runner, but has spent much of the last three years camped out in Tahrir Square Andrew Anthony Sunday 3 November 2013 When actor and political activist Khalid Abdalla was a young schoolboy, a teacher set his class the task of writing their own obituaries. It has become part
» Read moreResearching Collaborative Translation: An International Symposium Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University 7-8 April 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS **Deadline for submission of abstracts extended to 15 September 2015** For details, please refer to http://artisinitiative.org/events/artishongkong2016/. MORE UPDATES: Title and abstract of the keynote speech by Dr Julie McDonough Dolmaya (York University, Canada) as well as the title of the
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Despite having edited numerous books and journal issues over the past 20 years, I found this volume exceptionally challenging. The ups and downs, the uncertainty, and the upheaval that characterized the political landscape in which it was conceived permeated every aspect of the project: from persuading activists with more pressing concerns to invest in reflecting and writing about a relevant aspect of their experience, to
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Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution Edited by Mona Baker This is a volume of uncommon urgency, intellectual range, and political importance. Translation, which occupies the crossing point of discourse and power and which affects all networks of word, image and sound, must now stand near the centre of any study of global activism. The richly diverse
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