Sarah Carr, Mona Baker

Egypt under the New July Republic

July 7, 2015 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt

by Sarah Carr 2 July 2015, Jadaliyya The prevailing characteristic of the time before the revolution, all those moons ago, was Egypt’s political moribundity. There were elections of sorts, or at least votes went in ballot boxes but their provenance was not always from voters. Political parties did politics, sort of, following a script. There was a parliament. But

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Abdel Fatta, Hisham Barakat, Human Rights, Sarah Carr

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