Police Brutality, Mona Baker, Page 2

Breakfast with Mada: Mosaab Elshamy on Rabea, photography and memory

August 16, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Human Rights, Police Brutality

By: Lina Attalah Thursday, August 14, 2014 – 14:42 In her seminal work On Photography, Susan Sontag spoke of making photographs as an event in and of itself, which, simultaneously with the events they capture, work on creating “a tiny element of another world: the image world that bids to outlast us all.” Mosaab Elshamy, a photojournalist trained as a

On August 14, a belated obituary for Bassem Mohsen

August 15, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Philip Rizk, Police Brutality, Translating Dissent

Philip Rizk Thursday, August 14, 2014 – 18:33 I met Bassem Mohsen for a few moments in July 2013. He was upbeat and hopeful that the army had taken hold of power from the Muslim Brotherhood. I remember being surprised by his quick optimism. He believed that these generals were different than those who had ruled during the period